FUNDRAISING
Building Great Day-to Day Fundraising Operations
Do you know where your top ten gifts will come from this year?
Lamington Advisors will help you identify your organization's areas of greatest opportunity. We can help you build your program from scratch or offer solutions to enhance your current operation.
We have the know-how to help you create stellar day-to-day practices that give funders the confidence they need to invest in your organization. We design improvements to help you raise more money.
Coaching your Leadership to Success
At Lamington Advisors we firmly believe in the transformational power of great leadership. We are here to support your leaders of all stripes - board, staff and volunteer leaders with board training, one-on-one executive fundraising coaching and confidential strategy development support.
Is your board
- giving to their potential?
- ready to engage their networks?
- comfortable advocating on behalf of your mission?
Is your executive leadership comfortable in a fundraising setting?
Is there a trusting, cooperative partnership between your programmatic leads, finance department and fundraisers?
Is your formal and informal messaging consistent?
Are your lead fundraising volunteers well trained and supported?
Through our Leadership Services, Lamington Advisors can coach and train your leaders to collaborate more effectively and attract more gifts.
“Kirsten was, without a doubt, the best development officer with whom I have worked in my 33 years since graduation. Kirsten was incredibly helpful, trustworthy and enthusiastic. She delivered effective results and assisted in maintaining our relationships with our funding partners. Her attention to detail, dependability and commitment were critical to our successes as we raised support for the team”
Paul E. Schulz MD
Rick McCord Professor of Neurology
Umphrey Family Professor of Neurodegenerative Disorders
Director, Memory Disorders and Dementia Clinics
Director, Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology Fellowship
The McGovern Medical School of UTHealth Houston
Helping you focus on the right donors at the right time
Lamington Advisors can help you organize, analyze and maximize the potential of your pool of donors both at the group and individual donor levels by helping you address these and other questions:
- Is your donor data well organized? Do you need help cleaning up the data in your Customer Relationship Management software?
- Do you need help selecting a new CRM or upgrading your current system?
- Do you know the overall capacity of the people and organizations included in your donor pool?
- Do you know how to segment your pool of donors allowing for the most personalized and effective outreach?
- Do you have a plan to request and steward donations in a systematic way, avoiding bottlenecks and unnecessary stress?
Through our Donor Data Services, Lamington Advisors can help you raise more money from the people you already know, as well as those you would like to know better.
Helping attract Foundation, Corporate and Institutional Giving
Lamington Advisors can help you increase support and build long-term partnerships with funders.
Our strategy helps you set up systems to consistently attract and steward gifts from corporations, foundations and religious institutions. We address questions like:
Do you have systems in place –
- to build relationships with leaders at these institutions?
- to submit timely grant requests?
- to ensure funds are put to work as promised and in a timely fashion?
- to ensure reports are submitted ahead of due dates?
- to communicate with funders between grants?
Through our Foundation, Corporate and Institutional Giving Services, Lamington Advisors can help you raise more money and elevate your reputation in the community of funders.
Helping you increase giving from individuals
More than 80% of giving in the USA comes directly from individuals through outright gifts and bequests, so Lamington Advisors helps clients build meaningful relationships with their individual donors.
We do this by helping our clients address these questions:
- Is your outreach personalized and timely?
- Are you contacting each donor the way that donor prefers?
- Is it easy to make a gift online, by post or in person?
- Are you treating each person’s name with extreme care?
- Do you know how your donors know each other?
- Do you have systems in place to accept gifts of stock, gifts from Donor Advised Funds, IRA rollover gifts, bequests or other non-cash donations?
- Do you have gift acceptance policies so you can graciously accept or decline gifts?
- Does your organization see patients? Do you have an effective grateful patient giving program?
Through our Individual Donor Services, Lamington Advisors can help endear your mission to more individual donors, helping you raise more support year after year.
Helping you nurture and grow your professional fundraising team
Great employees are the driving-force in any business.
At Lamington Advisors we are here to coach, train and support your current team, and to help recruit your next professional fundraiser. We ask:
- Do you have the capacity to do the required fundraising work?
- Does your staff have the training required to meet donors’ expectations?
- Do you need interim staffing for a period of time or for a special project?
- Do you need help recruiting fundraising talent?
- Would you or your team benefit from fundraising coaching?
Through our Staffing Services, Lamington Advisors is here to fill in, attract, grow and support your professional fundraisers to help raise more money.