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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.
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.
CampaignCounsel.org believes we have developed the most comprehensive pre-campaign planning study in the industry. To help potential clients understand the differences between a pre-campaign planning study and a feasibility study, and to help them understand the important questions to ask, we present the following issues for nonprofits to consider when interviewing capital campaign consultants.
A good capital campaign consultant understands that it is the client’s willingness to foster and build win-win relationships that drives success, not the consultant’s willingness to share connections. It is through strategizing with your consultant that you will develop a list of donors and prospective donors with true philanthropic interest in your project.
A Request for Proposal (RFP) can be a valuable tool in evaluating capital campaign consultants, but be sure to use it at the right time. And download our free Capital Campaign Consultant RFP sample!
