Fundraising

LCG’s Readiness Assessment is a critical phase of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses within the operations of an organization.  Assessments will determine the capacity of an organization to effectively move forward to the next phase—the feasibility study and ultimately, a campaign.

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Every organization has its own image, history, capacity, relationships, needs, and potential for success.  Evaluating “readiness” will enable your organization to customize strategies, ensuring the success of the feasibility studies and potential campaigns.

Laying the foundation for a successful campaign is absolutely critical to effectively advancing your fundraising goals and ultimately, your mission. Therefore, a well-planned and executed feasibility study is your most important investment of time and resources. A comprehensive feasibility study of your key constituent groups will enable us to analyze your potential for success, design an informed campaign strategy, eliminate the potential for costly mistakes, and produce a timely, cost-effective campaign. Nothing will have a greater impact on the outcome of your campaign and your image among your constituents than a well-executed feasibility study.

Our studies take both a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the opinions of your key constituents, while cultivating them and positioning your organization within the communities you serve. From developing a compelling case for support to completing numerous personal interviews and online surveys, we maximize your initial investment by providing a detailed report of findings and recommendations.

There has never been a greater need for your organization to implement a campaign than in this economic environment—the kind of campaign that will rise above the myriad of competing donor appeals. Our extensive experience designing and managing successful campaigns is the strongest evidence of our ability to gauge donor interest and translate that interest into transformational gifts. It also means that we understand that balls drop, plans go awry, and unexpected events happen. Through it all, we maintain an intense commitment to driving you—your staff, board and volunteers— to achieve meaningful and measurable results.

Whether preparing for a special campaign or advancing ongoing donor development, the process of identifying, cultivating and soliciting major donors is more crucial... and more competitive than ever. We can help your team develop and enhance your major gifts initiatives by working with you.

While campaigns fill specific funding needs, the backbone of nonprofit fundraising is ongoing fund development programs that keep the lights on and services flowing. We understand that the daily challenge of raising funds is easily neglected in favor of service delivery. To overcome that common challenge, we design programs that maintain steady forward momentum by clearly delineating roles, responsibilities, measurable goals, objectives, and action plans for each of your funding components of a comprehensive development program.

Our systems-based approach to provides an excellent tool for evaluating your organization against evidence-based practices. We can provide an accurate and detailed assessment of your operational strengths and weaknesses along with clear recommendations on how to strengthen your operations to enhance your fundraising results.

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Instead of vague ideas or generalizations, our audit targets critical areas that enable you to understand issues and identify solutions. Equally important, our audit process gives you clarity on what's working and why, allowing you to reinforce your strengths.

Confirming that you have staff, board members, and volunteers willing to raise funds is an important first step. The next is to support their enthusiasm with the tools and training they need or want to be successful fundraisers. At LCG, we transform willingness into effectiveness through proven training systems tailored to match the needs of each group. We also deliver individualized training to institutional leadership and board members, the people you're counting on to lead solicitation efforts.

LCG has led a wide variety of workshops, trainings and seminars.