A Capital Campaign is transformative for your organization, your mission and your stakeholders. Filanthropie Consultancy can come alongside your staff and volunteer leaders each step of the way.

• Pre-Campaign Planning

  • Assess the readiness of your board, development office, and technology for the work of a capital campaign.

  • Establish Core Campaign Committee of key advocates who will lead the campaign.

  • Identify a working goal for fundraising and draw a plan for how to raise the money your organization needs.

  • Identify and engage top leadership prospects amongst your organization’s nearest and dearest friends.

  • Draft a case for support stating the need and inviting donors to make an impact by joining the cause.

  • Prepare your board for the hard work ahead for everyone involved.

• Feasibility Study

  • Consultant-led process that explores your internal and external capacity to achieve your goals.

  • Consultant-advised process guides your team of staff and volunteer leaders to verify the potential for your fundraising efforts.

• Campaign Planning

  • Recruit Campaign Leadership to advise your board, identify and plan donor prospect engagement,

  • Prepare the story your campaigners will tell and train them to feel comfortable telling it.

  • Compose policies, donor recognition, and communication plans for the long-haul.

  • Identify and prepare for ways donors can give to the campaign in pledges, in cash, in stocks, and in bequests.

  • Set-up your development systems to sustain themselves and your organization throughout the campaign.

• Quiet Phase

  • Shepherd your staff and campaigners through cultivation, solicitation, and appreciation of leadership gifts.

  • Cultivate a sustainable work cycle through this key stretch of the campaign to your fundraising goal.

• Public Phase

  • Plan the mid-level and community-wide campaign that brings energy and success to the campaign.

  • Organize the board, campaign committee, and solicitors for the final flury of work.

  • Coordinate your team through a kickoff event that announces your fundraising goal and energizes everyone to reach it.

• Post-Campaign

  • Celebrate success with your volunteers, donors and staff.

  • Lead an after-action analysis of the campaign.

  • Document the methods and relationships that cultivated reaching the fundraising goal.

  • Identify donor relationships for ongoing engagement.