Sustain.
Build.
Plan.
Plan. Build. Sustain.
We collaborate with nonprofit organizations to build revenue streams, create sustainable funding and increase organizational capacity to achieve ongoing positive net income – allowing you to better focus on your mission.
About Joanne Oppelt
Our founder and principal, Joanne Oppelt, is a seasoned rainmaker with a distinguished track record of success. During her 25+ years working in the nonprofit arena she has built or rebuilt successful fundraising departments at every stop, helping her organizations grow capacity & more effectively fulfill their missions.
The foundation of Successful Fundraising
Plan. Build. Sustain.
In today’s environment of increasing demands for services with unsteady or diminishing revenue sources, creating successful and sustainable fundraising relies on a strategic and repeatable process…
Plan.
Helping you to achieve a sustainable revenue stream begins with assessment of your current processes and creation of a fundraising plan tailored to your agency’s capacity and budget.
Build.
We then help you rebuild your fundraising department, including data mining for prospective donors, creation of templates for email/print marketing vehicles and software recommendations.
Sustain.
Finally, we teach you how to sustain your newfound success, including through grant writing, budget creation and templates, corporate sponsorships and annual appeals.
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Work with the woman who wrote the book(s) on nonprofit funding.
Succeed in Your Nonprofit Funding Partnerships:
Analyzing Their Costs and Benefits
Moving Up to Executive Director:
Lessons Learned from My First 365 Days
Confessions of a Successful Grants Writer:
A Complete Guide to Discovering and Obtaining Funding
Power Your Organization’s Fundraising:
How the Partnership Paradigm Will change Everything
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The Oppelt Blog
Grant Writing: Answering the Question How Much Will Your Program Cost?
In What Foundation Reviewers Want to Know, Asked or Not we presented the eight questions grant reviewers want answered. In “Grant Writing: Answering...
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