Areas of Practice — Fundamental Strategy

Areas of Practice

Fundraising

Our team brings decades of fundraising expertise to your organization. Whether you want to raise gifts or grants from individuals, foundations, or corporations, Fundamental Strategy can help. We can lend experience to help increase your annual fund, endowment, capital, and special projects campaigns. We can also help you refine, or start, a planned giving program. We advise on best practices in donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.

Digital Marketing

Have you created a digital journey that leads to dollars? Effective communications across all your digital platforms are critical to your organization’s success. Our team will partner with you to develop campaigns that raise awareness, increase engagement and then convert those supporters into active donors. We track everything to measure success and make data-driven decisions.

Interim Development Management

The work must continue despite leadership changes. During a transition period, we provide hands-on partnership to nonprofit organizations and help them navigate the personnel changes while maintaining critical fundraising required to achieve revenue goals.

Board Development

High performing boards should be a partner for an organization’s staff leadership. We work to ensure board members and staff are aligned in their vision, clear on their respective roles, and are working as an effective team to achieve goals. We leverage our uniquely balanced blend of perspectives as veteran board and senior staff members to deliver practical and impartial advice to optimize your organization's most critical working relationship.

Strategic Planning

Turn your mission into action with the development of a strategic plan that guides the growth of your nonprofit for the next five years. We assist clients in strategy development, alignment and execution. Our partnership puts your plan into action.

Organizational Design

We take a collaborative approach to improve organizational structures to achieve desired performance outcomes for specific business priorities. We determine key issues and identify pragmatic solutions. We help gain organization wide buy-in to implement necessary changes, ensuring they’ll firmly take root.

Development Operations Assessment

Is your development team built for success? We offer assessments of existing development departments to ensure your team achieves its fundraising goals. Our comprehensive review includes studying departmental staffing (positions and duties), data, and gift related systems.