Saad&Shaw’s counselOnDEMAND provides flexible, low-cost fund development coaching and strategy sessions for nonprofit executives, college presidents, and development directors. We help you meet your challenges and optimize your resources and staff.

EXPERT ADVICE, ON-CALL 

• You receive five hours of fundraising counsel by phone and email, and video conference each month. Conversations can be one-on-one or with your staff, board members, and others of your choosing.

AFFORDABLE AND FLEXIBLE 

• This unique and affordable service is ideal for organizations with limited budgets. For others it can be the first step in preparing for a feasibility study or creating a campaign plan. Some use it as an accountability tool to monitor monthly progress. Our guidance is tailored to your needs!

• The “case for support” is at the heart of all fundraising. It must be clear, concise, and compelling. This document is designed to convince individuals, corporations, foundations, or funding agencies to support your fundraising initiative.
• Different from a “case study,” a case for support is a forward-looking document that encourages engagement and giving.
• We work with you and your team to clearly define your fundraising goals and timeframes, and to clearly communicate your unique impact.
• We ask you questions that major donors and funders ask before they invest. This allows you to create a case for support that proactively answers the questions of those who can make a difference in the life of your organization.
• We can work with you to create a text-only document or a print-ready fundraising marketing brochure that includes copywriting and graphic design services.

• Before you launch a new fundraising initiative let us talk with your current and prospective donors, volunteer leadership, and community stakeholders to learn how they respond to your ideas and case for support.
• Our experience has shown that it is critical for a nonprofit to know if it can secure the funding required to carry out a strategic plan. You must test your vision — and the projected costs — with your funders.
• We specialize in feasibility studies for higher education capital and comprehensive campaigns, and provide feasibility services scaled to meet the needs of nonprofit organizations.
• We interact with your staff and review your reports, policies, and procedures to assess your fundraising readiness.
• This process and resulting report helps ensure that you launch your fundraising at the right time, targeting the right people with the right case for support.
• We will work with you to create the right study for your needs and budget.

• A Saad&Shaw fundraising plan is an extensive, detailed roadmap that can be used to plan for, launch, and manage your fundraising. It is a management tool that can be used to recruit (and retain) volunteer leadership, and to focus the work of fundraising staff and that of the executive director and the board. It is not a spreadsheet, an overview, nor a list of suggested actions.
• Use this unique tool to manage and evaluate your cultivation and solicitation strategies, and measure fundraising progress. Your plan will be designed to take advantage of your strengths and help address perceived challenges or obstacles to fundraising success.
• This fundraising management tool will include timetables, strategies for raising funds and rallying support, fundraising budgetary guidelines, data collection methods, and more.

• Under counselCARE, we become a member of your team to help coach your staff, board members, and volunteer leadership.
• The strategies shared will guide your annual fundraising or multi-year special campaign.
• Our unique counselCARE service can be secured for a timeframe that works for you.

• We review your mission, vision, leadership, and programs, working with you to create a roadmap for how to bring these to life.
• We work with your board and staff to gain their insights and observations.
• We personally speak with select staff, board members, stakeholders, and funders to learn how they assess your organization and its capabilities. We ask for their insights and suggestions.
• We help you define your over-arching goals and the steps you need to take to achieve them.
• We document what we have learned – and what you have agreed to – creating a tool that can help guide your work going forward.