All in Campaign Consultants
The decision to launch a capital campaign is often accompanied by a crucial question: What does it cost to hire a capital campaign consultant? The actual costs can vary widely based on your campaign goal, your specific circumstances and the type of consulting firm with whom you choose to work, but this strategic investment should bring a return that advances your organization’s mission and impact in your community.
Understanding the responsibilities of capital campaign consultants and the expertise they should provide to your nonprofit organization is vital. In this guide, we'll delve into the specifics of what capital campaign consultants do and why their involvement can be a game-changer for your organization.
Prospects assigned to a capital campaign’s quiet phase are all-in. They have the ability and willingness to support the vision, much like my wife did all those years ago. She was ready to marry me (yea!). All I had to do was ask. But from that moment forward, once we moved beyond our lovefest, complexity set in.
A critical component of successful capital campaigns is selection of the right type of counsel for your organization. Choosing the wrong capital campaign consultant can doom a campaign from the beginning. Follow this process to find the right counsel for you.
It is easy to find the biggest capital campaign consultant, or the one with the most experience in your market, or the one that employs your board president’s niece. But finding the best fundraising consultant for your project will take a bit more time.
Capital campaigns are huge challenges. They provoke fear, self-doubt, and vulnerability. The barriers to pursuing them can stack up quickly and easily, and the resistance they create can be difficult to overcome. But the rewards of logically assessing those barriers and facing that resistance constructively are vast.
