Angel Principle Consulting
How can we help you achieve your mission?
While the consultant may act as an educator, a catalyst for deeper change, a resource, or a facilitator, the leadership of the process remains within your organization. The staff, board members, and/or executive director have the power, and the greater responsibility, to lead the process of change.
There are generally four categories of work for which you may want to
hire the services of a consultant or a consulting team:
1. Overall Guidance:
The consultant works to plan and execute fundraising and or development plans, program initiatives, and acts as a meeting or process facilitator.
2. Information Gathering:
The consultant designs and gathers data during the information-gathering phase. We can be particularly useful in collecting qualitative data through about your mission and organization in interviews and focus groups, since our neutral position with the organization can lead to more honest responses from internal and external stakeholders. When you're considering the feasibility of a capital campaign, this information is vital to assessing the probability of a successful campaign.
3. HR Staffing/Diversity Training:
The consultant conducts trainings to create a more efficient, dynamic culture and help stakeholders become more aware of how the organization may be impeding their own progress and capacity building process. Needless to say, making good hiring decisions can directly affect your revenue stream. We can provide HR staffing assistance; handling your entire process from phone screens, face to face interviews, to the successful offer to the most qualified candidate. We can also lead the onboarding process to provide the proper foundation for your new hire to "hit the ground" running.
4. Evaluation:
The role that your consultant plays can be a combination of the above, or just one - it depends on your organization's needs and the consultant that you select. Consultants may be brought in for day-long sessions, for multiple trainings, or to assist you with particular topics. The time you spend with your consultant - if you hire one - and the work the consultant does, depend upon your organization's specific needs and budget.
Angel Principle Consulting offers services that clients can use individually or as a comprehensive package of services that are tailored to enable each client to develop their unique path to success.
Some examples of our services:
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Assisting with
Your Strategic Plan
A strategic plan is a tool that provides guidance in fulfilling a mission with maximum efficiency and impact. If it is to be effective and useful, it should articulate specific goals and describe the action steps and resources needed to accomplish them. We recommend existing plans be reviewed and revamped every three to five years.
Building a Case for Support
The Case for Support is the statement of your cause explaining what your nonprofit does, why it’s important and, most importantly, why people should support you.
This statement has to inform all communication pertinent to raising funds. It appears in applications for grants, annual appeals , on your website, and is your "elevator pitch for support wherever and whenever you need to explain why a potential donor should support your organization.
Managing Your
Major Gift Donor Portfolio
You have some donors, but you have no idea how to move them from "one off" contributions to donors who are truly invested in your mission and organization. We can nurture and cultivate those occasional contributors into passionate, fully invested donors who can make transformational gifts to your cause.
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Elevating your Events
You have event after event, but you have yet to see a real ROI on your budget and most of all your staff's time. They don't seem to attract as many attendees as before, no one seems excited (least of all your staff!) You've hit a wall, and finally are ready to admit you cannot "event your way" out of a budget shortfall. You need a tactical fundraising plan that addresses the needs and priorities of your programs, and you need someone to kickstart it. NOW.
Designing Your
Donor Recognition Plan
We all know we need to thank our donors, so why don't we? Time, priorities, event planning...etc. Everything takes precedence
over getting those letters and calls out. What a mistake. Thanking your donors, recognizing them in creative, fun ways is what fundraising is all about. They are our life blood. Because when you don't recognize your donors, you lose your donors. It's that simple. We can create a customized plan that works with your events, and inject it into your development plan. We'll use your donor management system. But we won't let a donor be ignored; because once you lose them, in this economy you won't get them back.
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Using Your Board to Unleash their Fundraising Potential
It's really not about "give, get, or get off". It's about understanding the power of your board's network to massively increase your fundraising. Your board members are people in the community. They know co-workers, neighbors, friends that have given their time, talents and treasures to organizations they care about. Your board is your "goldmine". Stop treating them like children that need to be scolded and cajoled into behaving better.