Fund Development Services
Building Capacity while Bringing Dollars in the Door

Maria Gitin & Associates can help jump start your new fundraising drive or improve the results from your current methods. We are experienced with launching new fund development programs. We specialize in Capital Campaigns and also advise on annual, endowment and special project fundraising. MG&A bring fresh approaches to traditional methods of individual, foundation and corporate contributions.

Fund Development Assessments, Feasibility Studies

Strategic Fund Development Plans and Campaign Plans

You gave us the knowledge to plan our campaign and the skill to execute our plan. - Richard A. Coskren, CEO, Insurance Educational Association

I feel your wonderful gifts: resourceful, joyful, focused and organized, and - big time - a mighty "can do" spirit. - Mary Murphy, former CEO, Daren E. Camarena Health Centers

Maria helped me plan and coached me through every step of my first $10,000 ask and it worked like a charm. Both I and the donor felt great!
- Wes Mukoyama, Executive Director Yu Ai-Kai, Japanese American Senior Center, San Jose, CA

Campaign Direction and Consultation: integrated, annual and endowment

Fund Development Training and Coaching

Collateral Development: case statements, brochures, direct mail letters

Grant Review and Consultation


Results
  • Assessments of fund raising opportunities and challenges with goals and gift charts
  • Successful fundraising efforts: Dollars in the Door - More money raised
  • Strategic Fund Development Plans to launch or improve fund raising efforts
  • Expanded capacity to carry out plans with an emphasis on board and staff leadership development
  • New expertise and resources for fund development staff and board
  • Better grant proposals and improved funder relations
Campaign/Fund Raising Assessments
Assessments (Feasibility Studies) tailored for your organization evaluate fund raising potential based on your demographics and areas of influence. Research and in-depth interviews help us help you develop realistic goals and plans. On-site Assessments offer professional evaluation, new concepts and strategies for existing fundraising programs.

Strategic Fundraising Plan Facilitation
Strategic Fundraising plans for capital, annual and endowment funds are based on Assessment results. Completed plans include timelines, checklists of required material and personnel, budgets and anticipated cost/expense ratios, and resources.

Campaign Direction and Consultation
Campaign direction services are proposed based on the Assessment and Plan. We can provide campaign direction and implementation services to suit client needs ranging from full service Campaign Counsel to on an as-needed, retainer basis, and through coaching staff and training campaign leadership. [more about Capital Campaigns services]

Fund Development Training, Coaching
We provide a full range of basic to advanced fundraising for organizations, boards, staff, associations, seminars and conferences, training organizations, individuals and committees. Interactive training generates enthusiasm, commitment and results. [more about Training services]

We provide job descriptions, assist with searches and mentor less experienced Development Directors. We are experienced with coaching diverse staff and board members. [more about Coaching services]

Collateral Development
We are experienced in viewing your organization from the donor and funder point of view. We provide research, narrative writing and editing services. We can work with your graphic designers and photographers to produce affordable effective fundraising materials including brochures, annual appeal packages and campaign solicitation materials.

Grant Proposal Review and Consultation
We advise on development of proposals for foundations, corporations and individual donors including budgets that meet funder requirements. We offer training for groups and coaching for individuals on successful funder relations.

Representative Fund Development Clients
Cabrillo College Stroke Center, Aptos, CA
Directed start-up of development program for model regional rehabilitation center. Led first annual campaign, raising one year operating budget in five weeks, preventing planned closure. Secured government and corporate grants; organized mail and phone solicitations and advised volunteers on fundraising events.

Camarena Health Centers, Inc., Madera County, CA
Consulted with three-site farmworker health center to develop internal fundraising capacities through strategic planning, case statement development and training.

Carmel Public Library Foundation, Carmel, CA
Conducted assessment, wrote plan, guided start-up, trained first board and secured initial $250,000 gift to launch a foundation that met its $3 million endowment goal within three years.

CASA - Court Appointed Special Advocates, Santa Cruz County, CA
Provided board training, staff coaching, retreat facilitation, fundraising assessment and planning services to organization advocating for mistreated foster care youth who are wards of the Superior Court.

Community Hospital Foundation of Monterey Peninsula, Carmel, CA
Wrote case statement and led solicitation training for trustees for the $7.5 million major donor portion of a capital campaign for a new cancer center.

Cultural Council for Santa Cruz County, CA
Conducted Feasibility Study and wrote Plan for major arts endowment. Facilitated planning sessions that contributed to countywide arts planning project.

Insurance Educational Association, San Francisco, CA
Provided on-site and internet training and consultation for the national staff and board of a 50-year old nonprofit association offering education to the insurance industry. Led staff and trustee training and developed case statement for first corporate campaign.

National Coalition Building Institute International, Washington, DC
Provided board consultation, training, grant research and proposal writing for international diversity training institute. Advised on development of international chapter-based fundraising strategies and wrote successful foundation grants to fund the plan.

Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA
Conducted annual campaign training for small fine arts jazz center for five years, increasing funding annually.

Medic Alert US, National
Conducted corporate and foundation grant research for national emergency medical response center. Wrote case statements for new programs and developed grant proposals for funding new initiatives.

Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Planned and led major donor and corporate gift solicitation, phone and mail campaigns, donor events and prepared grant proposals.

Santa Cruz Women's Health Center, CA
Consulted on two capital campaigns, facility purchase, major board development project, advised on five annual fund plans, and provided training for bilingual, bicultural feminist health clinic over a period of eight years.

Vietnam Friendship Village, International
Consulted on start-up of American branch of international organization of veteran's supporting a center for Vietnamese adults and children with health problems resulting from the war.