Development Audits
Is your fundraising program lacking direction? Is it underperforming? Or maybe you don’t have one at all? You’re not alone. Building, maintaining and growing a fundraising program – even a small one - is no easy feat.
Taking into account your organization’s unique history, resources, context and expectations, our development audits are a deep dive into how to jump start your fundraising program quickly and effectively. We spend time with you and your team getting to know your culture, staff structure and current fundraising program.
With our years of hands-on fundraising and knowledge of the industry’s best practices we evaluate your strategies, tools, processes, data and structures and provide an honest assessment of where you’re at. In our audits, we don’t hold back but apply a strengths-based model of auditing that will leave you optimistic about the future and armed with a set of clear, prescriptive recommendations that will guide you forward.
A development audit is for you if…
You raise between $50,000 and $2 million per year and are a registered charity in Canada or a 501(c)3 in the USA.
You know something is amiss with your fundraising program but can’t quite put your finger on what’s going wrong.
You know exactly what’s going on with your fundraising program but you need support articulating the gaps, challenges and opportunities.
You’re ready to take a deep dive into a creative conversation about your fundraising program and how to position it for growth.
Don’t just take our word for it…
“Leigh and Janet are a kind of Swiss Army knife of fundraising and communication, meaning they can tackle a wide breadth and depth of projects within our team to help our clients achieve their goals, relying on a complimentary skill set. They have excellence in storytelling to inspire and engage, and are super collaborative with clients and other skilled consultants to build a strong, sustainable infrastructure for a growing organization.”
“Fawkes + Holly have been transformative for our organization. Not only have they crafted our fund development messaging and strategy, they have also taken responsibility for the critical aspect of implementation. Without their efforts, guidance and enthusiasm, we would really have struggled to take our organization to the next level. They have become a key part of our growth strategy going forwards.”