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.
Your organization has made a transformative decision to embark on a capital campaign. What comes next? There are five basic stages to plan for if you’d like your capital campaign to be successful.
Hiring an experienced consultant to conduct your feasibility study interviews and analyze the results is an efficient approach to gathering this information and finding out if your campaign goal is reachable. However, we believe a comprehensive feasibility study should do much more to fully prepare you to enter a capital campaign.
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Your capital campaign planning study should include everything normally associated with a "feasibility study" plus create a detailed fundraising plan and case statement, and cultivate potential leaders and donors. It should be considered the "first step" in launching a capital campaign.
