Edelstein Fundraising Consulting
As the pandemic recedes, and we slowly return to normalcy, it is imperative to learn some intrinsic lessons from the past 18 months. All too often, a nonprofit organization places itself in an extremely vulnerable position if it is reliant solely on a limited funding stream (i.e. foundation grants). Gyrations in financial markets and other crises can impact your fundraising initiatives greatly — however, the best protection to protecting the viability of your organization against forces beyond your control is by developing a multi-faceted development plan to tap into various, novel and potential fundraising streams.
Recalibrating Your Strategy
Many nonprofits are frequently far too reactive in many of their fundraising pursuits and lack a clear strategy and fundraising directive moving forward. By thinking outside the box, and reconfiguring your organization’s fundraising “puzzle”, you will not only be able to garner much greater funds from existing supporters, but you will be well poised to tap into additional new sources of fundraising support that you may not have even considered previously.
Finding Your Solution
Bill Edelstein is both an experienced nonprofit fundraiser of over 20 years and an established educator in various topical areas including fundraising, international relations, and human rights. He also has advanced degrees in political science and education. Entrepreneurial, strategic, and proactive, Bill will walk you step by step through a process of re-envisioning your fundraising efforts and positioning yourself for greater success in raising new funds across the donor spectrum.
Specialties Include:
- Grant Writing
- Major Donors
- Individual Donors
- Corporate Funders
- Foundations – Private and Family
- Government – Federal, State, and Local
- Faith Based
- Special Events
- Social Media
- Peer-to-Peer
- Legacy Giving
- Mastering the Developing Plan
- Classical Fundraising vs. Entrepreneurial Fundraising
One Nonprofit’s Success Story:
A well-established national educational nonprofit in NYC was dying both in terms of membership and also their fundraising. Although they were a 100 year organization, their brand had become flat. Moreover, their development operations were solely focused on soliciting grants from large private foundations while relying on two large grants that were quickly drying up.
In tandem with a rebranding initiative, the organization launched into recalibrating their fundraising plan in conjunction with my development strategy. Over the course of a year, the organization shifted away from a unipolar plan just on foundations, and into a multifaceted plan inclusive of several various, nuanced, and novel pools of prospective funding.
While they were long abandoned prospects, several programmatic endowments were built by cultivating alumni and members more effectively. Corporations signed on through volunteer opportunities, and faith based organizations were engaged to provide seed grants. A legacy giving program was established, special events were reenforced, and major donors were actively engaged and solicited. By the end of the year, my new strategies had raised an additional 25% from the previous year and poised to raise even more the next year too.
Contact Info:
Bill Edelstein
(303) 909-6740
Bill Edelstein