• Developing fundraising plans: A to Z for new nonprofits or a fresh look at your fundraising practices if you’re ready to jump to the next level
• Developing and maintaining relationships with your funding partners (not their checkbooks)–aka stewardship–and developing plans to keep that work on track
• Creating, working with, and advancing your board of directors
• Measuring your impact from a development point of view: why you need to be part of the conversation
• Coaching for new or less experienced directors of development and grantwriters: how to lead teams, how to support individual team members, how to harness volunteers to boost fundraising
• Managing communications: Finding your voice, creating content for various channels, improving your storytelling, and handling all this when you’re a small team or a team of one

• Identifying possible capacity-building investments you could make that would take a promising nonprofit to the next level and ready them for a grant from you
• Helping you define how you’ll talk about impact and outcomes, since every nonprofit measures and defines them differently, to help ensure your investments move you toward your desired vision
• Creating a scoring rubric to use when evaluating existing and potential grantees
• Reviewing grant applications
• Finding and vetting high-quality nonprofits to add to your short list of potential grantees
• General philanthropy planning: How to structure your philanthropic work so you’re an effective partner with and investor in nonprofits

I do this work via FaceTime/Skype, phone, email, and text; I’m sometimes in Chicago, St. Louis, and the New York City/CT region. (I moved to get out of the rat race, but some of those rats are family and dear friends, so I visit.)

Certain projects require a regular human presence on site with you, and I won’t take those on. I don’t want to fail, and I don’t want you to, either.