Do You Need Someone Strategic on Your Side?

Being an Executive Director can be a lonely job.

Even if you are fortunate to have an amazing senior leadership team and an engaged and supportive Board, the ED is still (usually) a team of one. And what happens if your team is still building capacity or trust?

Who can you ask for help, or bounce ideas off if you are concerned about maintaining professional boundaries and/or maintaining respect?

While your team is a good idea in theory, sometimes that’s just not the case. Maybe you are a small team with very diverse skillsets. Maybe you feel threatened that the only place for direct reports to move up to, is your job. Maybe you’re new to your role, and your organizational culture doesn’t accept brainstorming and sees idea sharing as weakness (even though it’s clearly not!).

That’s where a strategic fractional fundraiser can come in.

An Ally, Not a Staff Member or Vendor

We are not staff members, or vendors, but allies. We are doing the exact role we want and come with years of experience – especially in supporting small not for profits.

We are the strategic support you need – whether that’s donor psychology, risk assessment, or just alternate perspectives to consider. Ultimately though, we want you and your organization to succeed, and we are a safe place to ask questions and to continue to learn about fundraising.

Stability in a High-Turnover Reality

Whether you’re new to fundraising or not, you’ll likely soon live the reality that the average fundraiser stays with an organization for 16–18 months. If you are trying to build capacity or even stability, that can be challenging with a revolving door of junior level fundraisers.

Enter your fractional fundraiser – not just strategic support, but implementation too. Grants still need to be written, annual giving doesn’t just happen, relationships need nurturing. We can do that too.

What You’re Not Paying For

What you’re not paying for is overhead, learning, trial and error, or activity for activities sake.

Hiring takes time, onboarding takes time, coaching takes time. And what don’t you have any of to spare? That’s right, time.

You also can’t afford yet another person to put their stamp on the organization or learn the missing pieces of their fundraising repertoire.

Experience That Builds Capacity

Demarca Consulting comes with 20+ years of experience. We know what works, and how to do it. We also document, store, and keep organizational information so it can be transferred and not re-learned, further building capacity.

As a fractional fundraiser we operate within your organization and are passionate about your mission, values, and vision. Demarca Consulting only chooses values-aligned partners. This ensures our relationship is not – and should never feel – transactional.

Clarity, Experience, and Momentum

With a fractional fundraiser, you’re not paying for time – you’re paying for clarity, experience, and momentum.

And a trusted partner.

February – Deanna Carruthers