The Hotline
Fundraising Hotline
Whether you are preparing for an important donor conversation, navigating a fundraising obstacle, refining strategy, or simply seeking a trusted thought partner, these sessions provide personalized guidance grounded in decades of leadership and fundraising experience.
Office Hours can be used in the following two ways:
Immediate Support
For urgent opportunities or challenges requiring immediate counsel.
- Preparing for a significant donor ask
- Troubleshooting a leadership challenge
- Strengthening an upcoming event strategy
- Clarifying an ask or next move before an important meeting
- Moving a board from preparation to confident solicitation
Strategic Deep-Dive (Three-Session Package)
For more sustained work on a larger question or project.
- Fundraising strategy and campaign counsel
- Hiring decisions
- Board challenges
- Capacity building: how to increase capacity and build infrastructure when funds are short
- Responding to shifts in philanthropy and donor behavior
- Developing metrics that measure progress beyond dollars raised
- Strengthening mindset, leadership presence, and resilience in fundraising work
Topics Often Explored in Office Hours
Sessions may include work on:
- Working with boards: how to be more effective
- Workshopping a specific ask
- Maximizing follow-up after events or donor gatherings
- Common fundraising pitfalls and how to navigate them
- The role of relationships and trust in philanthropy
- The importance of Mindset in fundraising
- Hiring decisions to support fundraising
- Turning exhaustion into energy and celebration in development work
- And often, simply:Â Bringing clarity to what feels complicated!
A Distinctive Element of This Work
These conversations also make room for something often overlooked in fundraising counsel:Â the well-being of the leader.
Because ambitious fundraising goals require not only strategy, but steadiness, confidence, and perspective. Please choose from the following engagement options.
Single Sessions
Available when timely support or strategic perspective is needed.
Three-Session Package
A discounted package designed for deeper work on a project, challenge, or stretch opportunity.