Overview
We are committed to helping your non-profit organization thrive so that you can continue the work to transform your community and serve your mission to change lives. We can help you with your fundraising strategy, activate non-profit events, and provide philanthropic counsel and coaching.
Fundraising Strategy
Fundraising Strategy and Campaigns
We help our clients create strong, customized, realistic and implementable fundraising strategies to meet - and surpass - annual fundraising goals.
Services range from major gifts and capital projects to reinvigorating your fundraising strategy through special anniversary campaigns.
Major Gifts Strategy
We can help you to complete a full analysis of your current donor base, identify missed opportunities, expand your major gifts program and create a comprehensive plan and strategy to reach your goals.
Organizational and Fundraising Department Assessments
Sometimes, the only way to see the obvious is to have a “fresh,” external pair of eyes examine your operation and help determine what is truly feasible for you both now – and in the future.
Development Department Analysis and Planning, including Recruitment
Do you need assistance determining what roles will achieve your goals in developing a solid, achievable fundraising program and development team?
YFJ Consulting will provide expert analysis and engage our partners in Executive Search to help you achieve success! We have unparalleled relationships with several gold-standard search firms with decades of experience in finding the right person for the job.
Our company has strong relationships with several of the nation’s most sought-after executive search firms, which specialize in recruitment through a DEI lens.
Grant Proposal Updates and Review
We can help bring new life to your existing grant proposals and provide copy editing support for your grants team, in addition to providing strategic advice on how to better engage corporate and institutional donors.
Trainings and Workshops
Need to diversify your donor base? Want a refresher on fundraising fundamentals? Whatever your need, we can help you to hone your current skills in fundraising, philanthropy and Inclusion, Equity and Diversity or craft a new skill set through our expert trainings and workshops for organizations and institutions of any size, large or small.
Philanthropic Counsel and Coaching
Philanthropic Counsel and Coaching
Providing a unique perspective and invaluable advice for philanthropists wishing to establish or refresh their portfolios and their personal, philanthropic missions. How do you want to use your dollars as an investment in your legacy and in changing the world? We can help you craft the perfect philanthropic strategy.
Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Training and Strategy
For both fundraisers and grantmakers, building a more equitable workplace and society begins with inclusion, that’s why our work and our theory of change puts Inclusion first, followed by Equity and then Diversity. People change systems and we use current best practices and a deep understanding of equity for fundraising and philanthropy to help your organization succeed.
For fundraising, we can help you determine how to attract a more diverse donor base and then how to cultivate and steward these donors.
For both philanthropy and fundraising, we show you how to build a more inclusive workplace and core strategy. And for philanthropy, we partner with funders to help you to craft and implement more inclusive funding practices. All of this work is uniquely tailored to each individual client, based upon an in-depth assessment of where you are right now and where you want to be.
“What I needed and got from Yolanda was clear direction for setting and meeting my near-term fundraising goals. The unanticipated bonus is how Yolanda’s process has made me a more creative and effective fundraiser.”