A full-service agency providing state of the art creative strategy, social media positioning, in-house digital printing, offset printing, bindery, prepress, data services, and complete mailing services and backend data-driven analytics of campaigns. Our team of Strategic Advisors empowers your cause with informed decisions that enable you to optimize your fundraising strategy by focusing on what works — and adjusting what doesn’t through an integrated review process. Direct Connection serves more than 500 clients in industries including Higher Education (Colleges and Universities), Government Agencies, Non-Profits, Insurance, Real Estate, and Financial Institutions and many more! Founded in 1990 we are Wholly-Owned, Silo-Free, and Self-Invested. We have foregone outside investment and growth so we can pursue innovation, technologies, and talent unbeholden to outside interests or competing internal P&Ls. We never place our clients’ interests behind the needs of our business model. As you know, a well-crafted fundraising strategy is indispensable for increasing support for your cause. It provides a roadmap for targeting potential donors, engaging them effectively, and nurturing lasting relationships. We look forward to partnering with you on your needs today! Read more...

Founded in 2000, Firefly Fundraising is a boutique fundraising consulting firm serving nonprofits of all sizes. Firefly delivers comprehensive, strategic grants expertise at a cost that enables long-term client relationships, even for small and midsize nonprofits. These relationships, in turn, increase our ability to engage deeply, work efficiently, and guide an organization’s operations to maximize funding. Firefly works on a flat, monthly fee. The hourly rate used to arrive at that fee depends on the length of the agreement, level of leadership expected, pace of deadlines, and other factors. To get the best sense of what working with Firefly would cost, request a free consultation, after which Firefly will propose a service package tailored to your needs and budget range. For reference, engagements often fall into two phases: • Research Phase: Firefly’s target research provides a client with a full, up-to-date picture of the relevant funding landscape. Depending on the complexity of a nonprofit’s programs, a research phase can take 30 – 100 hours over 4 – 8 weeks, inclusive of meetings and discussions for Firefly to “run up the learning curve” of an organization. • Grants Campaign: Firefly runs ongoing grants campaigns to fit a wide range of budgets. Years of data suggest that the “typical range” for a grants campaign works out to an average of between 35 and 104 hours per month in retainer, multiplied by a fixed hourly. Firefly Fundraising never works on commission and makes no exceptions to that rule. Read more...

Freeman Philanthropic Services, LLC (FPS) headquartered in New York City and founded in 2002 is National is scope. FPS has completed 700+ executive recruitments in the not-for-profit sector. We have extensive success working with educational and academic healthcare institutions, hospitals, social service, advocacy, and cultural institutions. Our comprehensive services include executive recruitment for the C-suite including CEO, Executive Director, Marketing, Commutations, Human Resources, Program and Development Professionals. At FPS, we manage all aspects of search, including client relationships, research, networking, qualification, and final selection of candidates. we provide comprehensive consulting services to meet clients’ unique needs. FPS has an established record of successfully engaging and supporting Search Committees. Read more...

Fundmetric has provided AI, software, and modern data infrastructure solutions for advancement organizations since 2013. We work across your organization, enabling teams to leverage data and predict opportunities. Our AI is based on our in-house peer-reviewed and published research by Dr. Gregory Lee. He leads our data science team and holds a PhD in computer science (machine learning), with his field of study exclusively in not-for-profit fundraising. By providing a strategic approach to AI, we set organizations up for success by collecting and connecting data from multiple systems, a critical step for higher education as we look toward the future. We take a custom approach to meet the needs of each organization, streamline operational workflows with intelligent automation, personalize the constituent experience, and inform better data-driven decision-making. Read more...

FundMiner simplifies fund management and donor reporting for fundraising organizations like Universities, Hospitals, and Community Foundations by aggregating current-use and endowed fund information from existing siloed systems (CRM, accounting, awards, documents, endowment investment data) into one portal giving advancement teams, leadership, and org-wide partners self-service insight into the funds they oversee. Advanced access controls help disseminate fund information across all departments and FundMiner automates impact reporting, financial reporting, and fund utilization monitoring. Read more...

Grants Plus is the nation’s most trusted and experienced professional grant seeking firm. Since 2007, we’ve assisted nonprofit leaders across the country to secure over $300 million in grant funding from private, corporate, and government funders. Read more...

Heaton Smith is a gift planning consulting firm that helps nonprofit organizations facilitate more blended and documented estate gifts. We partner with clients in four areas: Comprehensive Gift Planning Counsel, Legacy and Charitable Estate Planning, Planned Giving Program Audits/Assessments, and our Gift Planning Guide Desk®. We are the leader in blended and documented estate gifts in the legacy planning area for an average gift of $518,000. Heaton Smith guides nonprofits to transition from Planned Giving to Charitable Gift Planning. Gift planning is a programatic approach, meets the needs of all donors, and allows nonprofits to facilitate gifts of non-cash assets. Sample clients include Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, The Obama Foundation, The University of California Riverside, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, and Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. Read more...

Idea Hall is a creative integrated communications agency focused on using talent and technology to be Champions of All Things Good. We take a positive and entrepreneurial approach to our communications, specializing in the strategic development and implementation of 360-degree integrated marketing programs across all traditional and digital media touch points. Building around an idea-first approach, we work as an integrated PR, advertising, creative & marketing agency to help our clients find the right solutions for achieving their objectives. Read more...

Indinero serves US-registered businesses and organizations. By combining a full finance team of bookkeepers, accountants, CPAs, and CFOs, with real-time accounting software, we provide startups and growing businesses the knowledge they need to understand their company’s financial health and make better decisions with their money. Our tax experts work with our accountants under the same roof to prepare and file our clients’​ taxes and maximize tax savings. We are a full-service finance partner, handling the day-to-day and providing the right guidance as your company grows up — raising capital, budget forecasts, financial models, month-end close, and year-end taxes. We’ll help you select the right mix of tools, make them all work together seamlessly, and provide you with all the details in our monthly financial review meeting. We are the partner you need to help grow your business. Read more...

KEES (formerly Alford Executive Search) is a nonprofit executive search firm that builds diverse teams with dynamic leaders in the nonprofit and public sectors. A woman-owned and operated firm, KEES offers a full array of nonprofit consulting services including executive search, leadership development, interim staffing, and HR support. For more information, please visit www.kees2success.com. Read more...