Annual giving consultants

CCS Fundraising (Community Counselling Service), founded 1947, is a global for-profit fundraising consultancy offering campaign planning and management, feasibility studies, data analytics, interim development management and strategic planning for nonprofits.

RKD Group is a full-service fundraising and marketing agency delivering direct mail, digital, and paid media fundraising campaigns, brand strategy, and data/AI-driven donor analytics for 250+ nonprofit clients, with Heller Consulting and Whiteboard as affiliated subsidiary brands.

Allegiance Creative Group, LLC, based in Fairfax, VA, is a fundraising and marketing agency now unified with Pursuant, GivingDNA, and Beaconfire RED under the AGP brand, providing direct mail, digital fundraising, donor acquisition/retention, data/analytics, and mid-level and major donor program services to nonprofits.

Mailing Services of Pittsburgh, Inc., d/b/a TrueSense Marketing, is a full-service direct-response fundraising agency offering donor analytics, strategy, creative, and in-house print/digital production for nonprofit clients.

Washington, DC direct-response fundraising firm (founded 1992) offering direct mail, digital marketing and multichannel campaign management for nonprofits across museums, international relief, health, advocacy and social services.

M+R Strategic Services is a national fundraising, digital, and marketing firm that helps progressive nonprofits with multichannel fundraising (email, direct mail, digital, social), supporter engagement, analytics, and advocacy. 34+ nonprofits report paying it for professional fundraising services.

Moore is a data-driven constituent experience and fundraising company serving nonprofits across direct mail, digital, telephone and media channels, providing strategy, creative, production, data and analytics. It is a series LLC made up of more than 20 operating companies.

Anne Lewis Strategies, LLC, operating as MissionWired, is a full-service direct-response fundraising agency that has raised more than $1 billion online for nonprofits and political organizations through digital fundraising, direct mail, and donor acquisition.

Carter (formerly Bob Carter Companies) is a fundraising consulting firm advancing philanthropy worldwide through capital campaigns, major gifts, organizational planning, governance, grants and philanthropic writing services for nonprofits. Led by CEO Bob Carter, CFRE.

Des Moines-based firm specializing in planned-giving marketing for nonprofits, offering direct mail, digital marketing, donor surveys, data analysis and development training to nearly 1,500 organizations.

Longstanding fundraising consulting firm (formerly Bentz Whaley Flessner, now BWF/BWF Zuri) serving colleges, universities, health systems and nonprofits with campaign planning and management, major-gift/high-net-worth strategy, prospect development, data science, strategic planning and talent. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in the Minneapolis area.

Grenzebach Glier and Associates (GG+A) is a Chicago-based full-service philanthropic management consulting firm founded in 1961, serving higher education, independent schools, academic medicine and healthcare, arts and culture, and the voluntary sector. It was acquired by Huron Consulting Group in February 2024.

For Impact | The Suddes Group is a global fundraising consultancy founded by Tom Suddes in 1983 (For Impact launched 2001) that provides fundraising strategy, training, coaching, and campaign management. It reports having managed 500+ campaigns and raised over $3 billion for organizations.

Netzel Grigsby Associates is a California-based fundraising consulting firm founded in 1985, offering capital campaign counsel, feasibility and planning studies, development staffing, and training for nonprofits across arts, education, health, human services, faith-based, and youth sectors. It operates multiple offices across California and Hawaii.

National nonprofit consulting firm providing fundraising consulting, communications, strategic information services (including CRM/data management), and campaign counsel and implementation

Berkeley-based employee-owned, B Corp fundraising agency integrating direct mail, digital, telemarketing, mobile and legacy giving for charitable and advocacy organizations. Operates as Mal Warwick Donordigital with a Washington, DC office.

Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm providing campaign strategy studies, capital and endowment campaign counsel, annual fund assessment, predictive analytics and board enhancement for nonprofits. It serves arts, higher education, healthcare, faith-based and human services organizations.

Westfall Group (Westfall Gold) is a major-donor fundraising consultancy and experience-design agency that has helped clients raise more than $1.7 billion since 2002, largely through curated major-donor events.

McLean, Virginia direct-response fundraising firm, part of Eberle Communications Group, providing full-service direct mail and digital fundraising, copywriting and analytics for nonprofits including patriotic, historic and animal-welfare organizations.

Eidolon Communications is a direct marketing and member/donor communications consulting firm (founded 1987) specializing in nonprofit, advocacy, and political clients. It provides direct mail, digital strategy, copy and design, canvass and telemarketing management, and data analytics.

TLC, The Lukens Company, founded by Walter Lukens in 1986, is a multichannel direct response marketing agency providing fundraising and donor/membership development programs for nonprofits, museums, and cause-oriented organizations (alongside some political and advocacy clients), with offices in Arlington VA, Glendale CA, and Charleston SC.

Marts & Lundy is a long-established philanthropic consulting firm providing campaign management, major gift strategy, prospect research/analytics and planned giving counsel to nonprofits. It serves higher education, healthcare, independent schools and cultural institutions.

Sanky Communications (Sanky Inc.), founded in 1977, is a New York fundraising and marketing agency delivering integrated direct mail, digital, paid media, and mid-level donor campaigns for nonprofits.

Donor By Design Group (DBD Group) is a nonprofit fundraising consultancy founded by former YMCA of the USA philanthropy executive Bruce Berglund, specializing in capital campaigns, feasibility studies, annual/endowment programs, strategy, and board governance.