Board development 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

National nonprofit fundraising consultancy offering strategic development planning, a major-gifts accelerator, direct mail and digital response, capital campaigns, grant writing and donor advisory. Headquartered in West Chester, PA with offices in several metro areas.

The Compass Group is a national fundraising consulting firm providing planning studies, capital campaign management, development audits, capacity building, and leadership development for nonprofits. It reports serving 150+ organizations across all 50 states.

The Winkler Group is a national fundraising consulting firm founded in 2004 that partners exclusively with nonprofits, schools, and healthcare organizations on capital campaigns, feasibility/campaign studies, major gift strategy, strategic planning, and executive search. Headquartered in Mount Pleasant, SC with regional offices.

Global fundraising and nonprofit management consulting firm offering campaign management, development audits, interim staffing, major gift counsel, data intelligence, and training for nonprofits across education, healthcare, independent schools, and social impact sectors.

Ghiorsi & Sorrenti, Inc. (GSI), co-founded in 1989 by Peter Ghiorsi and Dan Sorrenti in Wyckoff, NJ, provided campaign counsel and management to healthcare systems raising nine- and ten-figure campaign goals; GSI was acquired by GOBEL (a healthcare philanthropy consulting/data firm) in July 2022 and is now integrated into GOBEL's offering.

American Philanthropic (AmPhil) is a national for-profit fundraising consultancy offering direct mail and digital fundraising, major gifts, capital and mission campaigns, grant writing, planned giving, donor research, and CRM services to nonprofits.

Aperio Philanthropy is a fundraising consulting firm that partners with nonprofits to build and scale major giving programs through strategy, systems, processes and staff training. It operates from Brooklyn, NY and Kansas City, MO.

Pennington & Company is a Lawrence, Kansas fundraising and alumni-engagement consulting firm specializing in capital campaigns, feasibility studies, and gift management for fraternity and sorority chapters, housing corporations, and foundations, founded around 1993.