Fundraising Counsel
Expert fundraising counsel providing strategic guidance to engage donors, maximize contributions, and help nonprofits achieve their fundraising goals.
Fundraising Counsel
What Is Fundraising Counsel?
Fundraising counsel is expert, ongoing advice on how to raise money well. At JBK, our fundraising consultants for nonprofits look at your whole fundraising program. Then we help you build a clear plan and put it into action.
Whether you are starting a new program or improving an existing one, our fundraising strategy consulting gives your team direction it can use. Planning a large capital project? See our fundraising campaigns service. Fundraising counsel is the day-to-day guidance that makes both campaigns and annual programs succeed.
Full Capabilities
Our Fundraising Counsel Services
Our nonprofit fundraising consulting covers the areas that matter most to your results.
Fundraising Program Assessment
We start by looking at what is working and what is not. Our fundraising program assessment reviews your donors, your systems, and your team's capacity. You get clear priorities, not a long report.
Annual Fund Consulting
A strong annual fund brings in reliable, renewable support. Our annual giving consulting covers segmented appeals, monthly giving, and year-end strategies that help donors give again and give more.
Major Gift Fundraising Consulting
Major gift fundraising builds the leadership gifts that move your mission forward. We help you identify prospects, plan how to engage them, and coach your team and volunteers to ask with confidence.
Planned Giving Consulting
Planned giving and endowment strategies create lasting financial security. We help you start or grow a legacy giving program that gives donors a meaningful way to support your future. Looking for more? Explore all of our fundraising programs.
What Our Fundraising Counsel Includes
Every engagement is shaped around your organization. Most fundraising counsel work includes some or all of the following.
Donor strategy.
We help you decide who to approach, how to engage them, and how to renew and grow their support.
Case for support and messaging
We refine your case and review your letters, emails, online giving pages, and social media so your message is clear.
Systems and processes.
We help you set up simple, consistent processes for data entry, gift acknowledgment, reporting, and stewardship.
Short-term and long-term plans
You get written plans with timelines and clear responsibilities.
Coaching for Your Staff, Board, and Volunteers
Strong plans only work when the people carrying them out are prepared. We coach your CEO, development staff, board, and volunteers on how to ask, how to thank, and how to build lasting relationships with donors. We also help you identify, train, and recruit more volunteers to support your fundraising.
Why Nonprofits Choose JBK
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Experience you can trust
For more than 20 years, we have helped nonprofits grow their fundraising across annual giving, major giving, and capital campaigns.
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Practical plans.
You get plans your team can actually use, not binders that sit on a shelf.
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A true partner
We work alongside your staff, board, and volunteers, not above them.
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Support for your whole organization.
Strong fundraising needs strong systems. We can also help with organizational development.
How Our Fundraising Counsel Works
Understand.
We learn about your mission, goals, and challenges.
Strategize.
We build a practical fundraising plan that fits your organization.
Grow.
We help you turn the plan into action and results that last.
Ready to Strengthen Your Fundraising?
Talk with JBK about fundraising counsel that fits your goals. We will help you build a plan your team can carry forward.