Consulting Solutions Overview
I am The Nonprofit Fixer.™ I fix nonprofits.
Most nonprofits face two major challenges: board engagement and fundraising.
Help is on the way. After 34+ years working in nonprofits and five stints as an executive director, I know what works and what doesn’t.
I have developed my Nonprofit Fixer Framework, which helps nonprofit leaders master fundraising, board development, and leadership.
[If you are interested in executive coaching for new or experienced nonprofit leaders, click here).
Below you will see the breakdown of consulting and coaching packages
Consulting with
The Nonprofit Fixer Framework
Nonprofit organizations operate with three main functional areas:
Fundraising, Boards, and Leadership.
My Nonprofit Fixer Framework helps you and your organization tackle all three areas with powerful interventions, tools, coaching, support, courses, curriculum, and 24/7 support.
Boards must address the Members of the board, the Meetings where they conduct their due diligence, and the Money they oversee.
Fundraising can be mastered by moving through 7 Ps:
The Pitch, the Platform you’ll use to fundraise, the People you will engage, the Plan you’ll write (who does what by when), the key Policies to give it all structure, the Perspective shift you need to love fundraising, and the Practice to get it right every time.
Executive Leadership requires that the executive director have the right Mindset, and that they Master 10 areas of leadership. I also help them avoid common career mistakes. See the graphic! (Coaching packages)
If you want to fix your nonprofit for good, we can use this exact framework to build a rockstar board, supercharge your fundraising and help you confidently run any nonprofit.
Main Consulting Package Areas -
Fundraising & Boards
FUNDRAISING PACKAGE
Supercharge Your Fundraising
I will help you raise more money in more ways more quickly with my signature Fixer Fundraising Formula.
BOARD PACKAGE
“Kick Your Board in the Butt”
I can help you Build a Rockstar Board and completely fix it in less than a year using my signature board development framework.
Interested in Custom Packages or Coaching? Click here.
If you want to see more detail about what is in each package, continue below
“Supercharge Your Fundraising”
Fundraising Packages for Nonprofit Organizations
Nearly everything you want for your organization is possible if you have more money.
You can pay yourself and your team more money.
You can have top-flight software and tools to reach your mission more quickly, and you can sleep better at night.
Platform
You will complete an Asset Inventory Assessment to determine the strengths and challenges of your fundraising operations and assets. This will clarify your current state and assets, allowing us to set goals. We will assess a wide variety of fundraising methods and find out which ones are best for you, given your assets and interests.
We’ll evaluate each existing fundraising practice and find improvements
We’ll review a large list of fundraising options and narrow it down to prioritize 3-5 top revenue streams. (grants, corporate, events, earned income, individidual donors (membership, monthly, and major donors), digital, and other forms.
Pitch
You’ll craft a powerful pitch and how to pivot it to different audiences
Clarify mission, vision, values, and theory of change to be “funder-ready.”
Case for support , Storytelling, and unique alue proposition (and other methods of pitching). Techniques for persuading donors and the public.
I’ll show you creative metrics to wow your donors and how to conduct research before a major donor visit.
People
We will decide who your ideal donor is and then set priorities for your fundraising. You’ll know how to find donors the way the experts do.
You will learn the cycle of donor cultivation and how to maximize long-term giving. We will discuss master-level retention activities.
We will enlist people in your work to help you reach those ideal donors and create a division of labor so you don't feel alone.
You’ll understand the board’s role and how to ignite their fundraising potential. You will implement a Give/Get policy and board job descriptions. You will have board training, orientation, a board agreement, and a development committee.
We’ll discuss what kind of staff support you'll need as you grow and how to hire and/or enlist a development director, your executive director, grant writer and bookkeeper, treasurer, digital and design support, and the chair of your Development Committee.
We will look through critical policies your organization should have in place
Perspective
Next Steps…
Schedule a discovery call at www.nonprofitfixer.com/schedule
Then choose your package via a proposal from Sean.
Then begin transforming your organization.
Practice
We will help you practice all that you learned above.
Plan
You’ll write a plan of who does what by when.
We will do a crisis communications exercise so you can mitigate any public threat to your organization that would cripple your fundraising in the future.
Policy
Board Consulting Package: “Kick Your Board in the Butt”
(Strategy, Training, Tools, Orientation, Mindset work, Alignment)
The single biggest challenge in nonprofits isn’t fundraising, it’s low-performing boards.
You deserve a board that fundraises, shows up for meetings, and stays in their lane.
The way that I work with boards is boiled down to my three-part framework. With this framework, my promise to you is that you can have a rockstar board that is engaged, raises money and stays in its lane. They just have to do the work!
90% of board function occurs in three areas. I call them the 3 M’s.
With my signature 3 M’s Board Framework, we will tackle and address the Members of the Board, the Meetings of the Board, and the Money the board supervises.
I can help you transform your board in 90 days if they are willing.
What’s included in this package:
We’ll do an assessment to determine the strengths and challenges of the board.
We will then create a roadmap with goals for us to focus on for the next 6-8 months.
The Members
Boards are made up of people. This means we must recruit, retain, and sometimes remove members. I give you the tools to do this.
You will get clearer on your values, mission, culture, and commitment
You’ll have a strategy for building your board instead of just randomly recruiting people
You’ll understand proper division of labor on the board and between the board and staff.
You’ll get tools that codify this (Job descriptions, graphics)
You’ll appreciate the value of and be able to implement a strong board orientation.
You’ll get a powerful tool that will help recruit, retain, and remove board members…all in one document.
Once the work of recruiting is done, I'll show you how to retain people forever. We’ll navigate conflict and morale. We'll get the right people in the right roles and will discuss the key elements to get people to stay. (Mission +people. Training +fun)
We will discuss rapport, having fun, and relationship-building. People come for the mission, but they stay for the relationships.
And then, because sometimes things don't work out, I'll show you how to remove board members.
I’ll show you how training can be a retention tool. People love to learn, and it makes meetings more enjoyable.
The Meetings
I'll show you my special formula for meeting success, including using committees and board meeting agendas. We'll also explore an innovative approach to board and executive director partnership that you may not have encountered before.
You’ll learn how to schedule board meetings and agendas to get better engagement.
You’ll create a structure for meetings so people treat them seriously.
You'll create guidelines and best practices for effective meetings.
You’ll create and delegate tasks to committees, making the work more manageable.
You’ll learn how to engage the executive director in board meetings so that everyone feels valued and respected.
You’ll learn how to evaluate all of this.
The Money
Boards are responsible for passing a budget and resourcing that budget while also providing due diligence.
You’ll learn your legal and moral obligations to the public, the government, and your stakeholders.
You’ll learn best practices for passing a budget.
You’ll learn how to supervise the financials measured against that budget.
And most of all, you’ll learn the board’s role in fundraising and get a suite of tools to help your board fundraise. (Policies, structures, tools, templates, and training).
You will have confidence and a road map by the time we're done working together. I will make this easy for you. You need to have a strategy, high standards for your board, and a proper division of labor so that your board stays in its lane.
You should take action today by booking “The Kick My Board in the Butt” package, so you stop spinning your wheels and using the same resources you have now. You need expert help to transform your board into the team you need to reach your mission and grow.
Next steps
Schedule a discovery call at www.nonprofitfixer.com/schedule
Then choose your package via a proposal from Sean.
Then begin transforming your organization.
Custom Packages
If you don’t see a package that works for you, I can customize one for you.
Coaching Packages
See this page for more informatino on coaching.
1:1 coaching (One-On-One Coaching)
Coaching is a powerful tool to transform yourself, your leadership and your organization.
Your organization may be willing to pay for this out of professional development funds. Learn more here.
Group Coaching for Nonprofit Executive Directors
The Fixer Fellowship group coaching program is the best and most affordable group coaching program for new, aspiring and existing nonprofit executive directors in the US. Learn more here.
