There are lots of reasons why a nonprofit should work with a coach or consultant – and even more options to choose from!
A good partnership can provide expert advice on a wide range of topics, from major gifts fundraising to strategic planning and board development. They can act as a sounding board or thought partner, and they can also help you to identify and address challenges or to develop and implement solutions.
Additionally, consultants can provide access to a network of resources, tools, and other contacts and experts. As a result, hiring a consultant can be a valuable investment for any nonprofit.
At MVP Advisors we strive to offer services that are high-quality, in-depth and affordable. We will work with your organization to find options that fit within your budget.
Here are some of the ways that MVP Advisors can help your nonprofit.
Strategic Planning | Fundraising & Major Gifts Coaching | Fundraising Planning & Strategy | Board Governance & Operations | Feasibility Studies & Capital Campaigns
Our Process
We believe that through working together we can create a relationship that is collaborative and supportive. Our process is designed to combine responsiveness to your unique needs with our knowledge of fundraising, capital campaigns, strategic planning, board development and the broader philanthropic landscape.
How we work
We’ll start by learning about the background, history, and mission of your organization. We’ll ask questions that will help to give us an understanding of what tools, resources, and opportunities exist for us to build on.
After we have a good feel for your organization, you’ll receive a custom coaching plan that we will update during our work together and that will serve as a shared place to capture information, plans, and more.
Once we’re comfortable and have a solid understanding of how you work and what our joint goals are, we’ll add strategies, timelines, and metrics to our plans and spend time during our coaching calls checking in our status, results, and next steps.
To learn more about our services, keep reading!
Our Services
Strategic Planning
All the time nonprofits are asked what their priorities are and what resources they are using to address those priorities. Having an updated Strategic Plan can provide a roadmap to answering those questions by being a guide for decision-making, priority setting and resource allocation.
Having clear Goals, Objectives and Strategies allows organizations to allocate resources efficiently, enhance your organizations resilience and your ability to innovate and sustain success.
MVP Advisors has a track-record of helping organizations to develop successful strategies for tackling its challenges and has a tailored approach to working with its clients to create the best plans for them, given their unique situation that balances the resources available to them with the goals they wish to accomplish. We are proud to work with SchellingPoint, the global leader in Strategic Collaboration.
Smart People Need to be Able to Work Together
In today’s complex, competitive world, people must work together to solve, invent, organize, merge, and streamline with others inside, across, and between organizations. Leaders and managers have been trying since the 1970s . . . but most collaboration remains a frustrating and time-consuming ordeal.
Strategic Collaboration is Now Done Differently
Based on behavioral science, Nobel Prize-winning insight, and years of applied research, advances in Strategic Collaboration ensure the right people have the right conversations in the right order with the essential information and powerful techniques.
It is a Better Way that is 3 Times More Successful!
And with 1/3 of the effort, a higher quality solution – that considers more ideas from more participants for full endorsement – makes the implementation faster and smoother. . . whether you’re a group of five leaders, a 50-person project team, or a 5,000-person global transformation task force.
Fundraising & Major Gifts Coaching
Fundraising coaches bring specialized expertise and experience, offering valuable insights into effective fundraising strategies and donor engagement. They can help organizations navigate the complexities of the fundraising landscape, providing personalized guidance based on the nonprofit’s unique mission and goals.
A fundraising coach can also assist in developing and implementing targeted campaigns, improving communication with donors, and optimizing fundraising processes. By leveraging the coach’s knowledge and mentorship, nonprofits can enhance their fundraising capabilities, expand their donor base, and ultimately increase their financial sustainability.
If you want to start or expand upon a Major Gifts program, having an experienced coach can help you create strategies and refine your approach to the donor. Together we can create individualized donor engagement plans, as well as provide the accountability that you may want in order to keep those plans on track. Ask us about one of our favorite phrases “Individualized, but not Unique”.
Fundraising Planning & Strategy
Knowing where to focus your efforts and time can sometimes be 1/2 the battle. Setting up achievable and actionable plans and strategies that makes sense for your organization can sometimes be the difference between a successful fundraising effort and a failed one.
Knowing where, and how, to allocate your limited time and resources can give you the freedom to execute the best fundraising plan for your organization. We look at things like what technology are you using, what does your story telling and marketing (digital, direct and other) look like, do you have engaged volunteers and followers to help you spread your message, and a number of other key indicators that can help us define the best overall plan and strategies for you.
MVP Advisors can help you analyze your current strategies to see what is working, what needs to be changed, and sometimes, what you need to stop doing. By looking at your fundraising ROI, annual budget and other metrics can help us determine where to focus time and effort to grow your fundraising to the next level.
Board Governance & Operations
At the heart of any successful nonprofit is an engaged and focused Board of Directors. Whether its a small, volunteer led organization where the board delivers the programming, or a med-large nonprofit with a fully staffed team, your board can help in so many ways.
MVP Advisors can work with you to support you board members by:
- Coaching them through the different roles board members can play in Fundraising (they can all play one!)
- Creating policy and procedures that make a board volunteers role clear and easy to conduct
- Onboarding new board members or offboarding board members who are leaving the organization
- Training board members on the role of nonprofits, what a nonprofit is, and what their expectations of service are
Feasibility Studies & Capital Campaigns
Thinking about a capital campaign or feasibility study? This can be a daunting task and having a trusted consultant to act as your guide and subject matter expert can help keep a project on task, on time and on budget. Let or expertise help guide you to a successful result that will help you achieve your goals and solidify your ongoing sustainability.
In addition to being a trusted partner, MVP Advisors can objectively assess your organization’s capacity, conduct feasibility studies to gauge community support, test your case for support, identify potential leadership and major donors, and offer strategic counsel for campaign execution.
Our donor engagement experience can help identify and categorize potential contributors, and we will assist in crafting compelling campaign structures and messaging. Working a consultant can be a cost-effective means of accessing specialized skills, ensuring efficient use of resources, and increasing the likelihood of fundraising success by identifying and mitigating risks and expediting the planning process.
Philanthropic Advising
We are advisors who specialize in the nonprofit sector. We can help you:
- Identify your personal, or your families, main philanthropic interests.
- Lend our expertise in the philanthropic landscape to help your family make informed decisions about your giving strategies.
- Assist your family in creating a Strategic Philanthropy Plan that will help you define your goals, focus areas and objectives that can maximize the impact of your giving.
- Assess the impact of your past and current giving to help inform different opportunities for your future Philanthropy.
- Develop a legacy plan that aligns with your family values and ensures lasting impact.
A Philanthropic Advisor can enhance the effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability of your family’s philanthropic efforts, allowing you to make a positive and lasting impact in your chosen areas of focus.
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