Strategic Fundraising For Non-Profit Organizations
Constellation Advancement is a boutique consultancy firm that provides professional advice and hands-on help for your non-profit organization. We counsel about how to raise money and best manage your institutional advancement function with reliable revenue results and rational expenses.
Constellation is made up of nonprofit vice presidents who later turned to consultancy. We understand your challenges. We respect your hard work. We are not talking heads who disappear at the end of the day. We give you a real sense of value and partnership. We use hands-on approaches that improve effectiveness and bottom-line numbers.
The challenges of the world since COVID are like nothing we have seen. Employment markets are disrupted, economies are fitful, feasibility studies have changed, and outreach is different. We were in the trenches during 9/11 and the Great Recession. We understand crisis environment fundraising. We can help you with the new challenges of the day. We furnish insight based on industry best practices. We design muscular, productive weekly outreach meetings that drive results. We also counsel about restructuring and even merger scenarios.
At Constellation, we like to say that your mission is our mission.
Fundraising Campaign Planning and Execution
An organized fundraising campaign can change the fortunes of a non-profit for the best. Campaigns raise all the sights of a non-profit, from strategic planning to marketing to revenue and even to human resources and the ability to inspire and retain good employees.
Healthcare Fundraising and Grateful Patient Programs
Grateful patient fundraising programs offer the most effective way for providers to find resource for leading-edge technology, and the latest in patient care and comfort.
Finding and Recruiting Non-profit Board Members
Using targeted research and personal outreach campaigns, we have helped dozens of non-profits find board members to improve their giving cultures and governance sophistication.
Gift Planning Services: We turn locked-up assets into gifts on your balance sheet
Studies estimate that over the next thirty years charities will receive between $6 and $25 trillion in donations from the charitable estate plans of donors. The consultants at Constellation Advancement know that, overwhelmingly, the charities that will benefit from this most will have donor-centric gift planning programs that ask for estate gifts.
Development Office Assessments to Improve Revenue Outcomes
Non-profit boards and executive directors are often troubled by a sense that their development office generates a lot of activity, but not enough tangible outcomes.
Establishing US “Friends Of” Fundraising Entities for Foreign Organizations Non-profit Board Members
We have specific experience and expertise working with foreign organizations that want to organize constituents and raise money in the United States.
Interim Development Office Leadership and Outsourced Fundraising Services
We specialize in providing interim leadership for your development office, as well as outsourced services like grant writing, research, database work, and other functions.
Focus on Fundraising
The Post-Covid Face of Fundraising Feasibility and Planning Studies
The Post-Covid Face of Fundraising Feasibility and Planning Studies By Dave Gallagher COVID-19 changed many things, including the ground rules for feasibility and planning studies for fundraising campaigns. Based on what we...
How to Use your Major Gifts Team to Professionally Staff Board Development
How to Use your Major Gifts Team to Professionally Staff Board Development By Chris Cloud I did a podcast about how to professionalize your board development function at your nonprofit organization. We talked about using...
Crossing the Finish Line: How One School Created a Campaign within a Campaign to Raise the Final Million
Crossing the Finish Line: How One School Created a Campaign within a Campaign to Raise the Final Million By Jay Angeletti Following the excitement of the initial lead gifts, a campaign launch,...
Does Your Nonprofit Organization Really Have a Gift Planning Program?
Does Your Nonprofit Organization Really Have a Gift Planning Program? Savvy fundraisers and nonprofit board members are re-focusing on the massive revenue potential of gift planning (deferred gifts in wills, gifts...
Concierge Stewardship
Concierge Stewardship By Brian M. Sagrestano, J.D., CFRE, and Robert E. Wahlers, MS., CFRE The concierge at your favorite hotel can make your stay a memorable one, securing dinner reservations, obtaining tickets...An exceptional team offering unrivaled expertise
Dave Gallagher
- Campaign design and feasibility
- Driving campaigns to goal
