Board development consultants in North Carolina

GSB Fundraising is a fundraising-consulting firm based in Fletcher, NC with roughly 40-50 years of operating history, providing capital campaign, annual fund, feasibility study, communications, organizational development, and executive search services primarily to churches, synods, outdoor ministries, and other nonprofits nationwide.

Armstrong McGuire & Associates is a Raleigh, NC-based consulting firm founded in 2004 that provides nonprofit leadership and organizational development, philanthropy/fundraising strategy, and executive search services, having worked with over 800 nonprofit and philanthropic clients.

Gail Perry Group is a nonprofit fundraising consulting and training firm providing capital campaign counsel, feasibility studies, major-gift strategy, fundraising assessments and board coaching, founded by Gail Perry, MBA, CFRE.

moss+ross is a Raleigh, NC-based nonprofit consulting firm, founded in 2009 by Mary Moss and Susan Ross, offering fundraising and capital-campaign counsel, executive search/interim staffing, and strategic planning/board-development services to North Carolina-area nonprofits.

Capital Development Services (CapDev), founded in 1984, provides philanthropy consulting, capital campaign and development counsel, and nonprofit executive search with an emphasis on planning and capacity-building.

R&L Consulting is a woman-owned firm based in the Asheville, NC area serving nonprofit cultural organizations (museums, arts, zoos, gardens) with grant writing, research and development, evaluation, exhibition development, and institutional planning. It reports having helped clients raise more than $34 million.

Pisgah Consulting brings top development talent to small and mid-sized nonprofits across the U.S., offering full-service management of development operations, fractional fundraising staffing, coaching programs for development professionals, and strategic development planning to help organizations bridge growth gaps and maximize fundraising potential.

Whitney Jones, Inc. is a fundraising consulting firm founded in 1981 specializing in long-range and strategic planning, campaign feasibility surveys, and capital campaign management. The firm reports helping hundreds of nonprofits raise more than $550 million.

Stepstone Strategic is a Winston-Salem, NC fundraising consulting firm founded in 2016 by three veteran nonprofit advancement leaders, offering campaign counsel, major gifts and donor-cultivation strategy, board development, and communications/stewardship planning.

Vandever Batten, Inc., founded in 1999 in Charlotte, NC, is a fundraising consultancy that helps nonprofits plan and execute capital campaigns, feasibility studies, and strategic planning, reporting more than half a billion dollars raised for regional clients.

Asheville, NC-based fundraising consultancy run by two CFRE-credentialed principals offering feasibility studies, campaign planning/implementation, and organizational development for nonprofits.

The Winslow Group, Inc. is a Winston-Salem, NC fundraising consulting firm founded in 1983, providing fundraising counsel, capital campaign management, feasibility studies, organizational assessment, board development, and research to arts, cultural, educational, religious, and social-service nonprofits.

Carol O'Brien Associates, founded in 1992 and based in Durham, NC, is a solo institutional-advancement consulting practice providing strategic planning, staff/volunteer training, executive coaching, executive search advisory, and proposal/case-statement writing to colleges, universities, arts organizations, and healthcare institutions; the firm reports having helped clients raise over $25 billion.

North Carolina-based coaching and counsel practice led by CEO/Senior Counsel Benjamin R. Case, offering online fundraising training, mentoring, strategic planning, and fundraising counsel; Case has over 40 years of nonprofit fundraising experience.

Integrated Organizational Development (IOD), Inc. is a nonprofit-services consultancy offering fundraising, strategic planning, board development, and financial services, with a focus that includes Christian organizations and HBCUs.

Mary Ann Thomas, Nonprofit Consulting provides strategic planning, process management and mission-focused fundraising for nonprofit organizations, primarily in the Charlotte area.

The Innovative Nonprofit Solutions Group, LLC (dba The INS Group) is a Raleigh, NC consulting firm founded in 1999 by Ruth Peebles that provides strategic fund-development planning, grant writing, board training, and organizational capacity-building to nonprofits, government agencies, and faith-based institutions nationwide.

MSL Grant Consulting is a Hillsborough, NC grant consulting practice run by Principal Consultant Mara LaLonde since 2000, offering grant writing/coaching, award management, organizational capacity evaluation, and resource strategy for nonprofits.

Greater Gifts Consulting is a solo fundraising consultancy led by MaryBeth Carpenter, CFRE, offering strategic planning, fundraising counsel, feasibility studies, board development and prospect research to nonprofits in the North Carolina Triangle region.

Nonprofit leadership and fundraising consulting practice founded by Dr. Patton McDowell, MBA, CFRE, offering coaching, mastermind programs, and speaking on fundraising, governance, and organizational health; has partnered with more than 325 organizations and is now affiliated with Armstrong McGuire & Associates.

Beam Outcomes, led by Joanne O'Brien Beam, provides fundraising counsel including feasibility studies, capital/comprehensive campaign planning and management, major and planned gift strategy, and board development for nonprofits, with a focus on the Midwest and national clients.

Niles Sorensen Consulting is the solo practice of Niles Sorensen, a four-decade advancement professional and former UNC Charlotte vice chancellor for University Advancement, offering fundraising and philanthropy counsel to nonprofits under the tagline 'Advancing Your Mission.'

Kucia Consulting, led by Sharon Kucia in Charlotte, NC, provides strategic planning and fundraising, including capital campaign planning studies and campaign execution, primarily for Catholic nonprofits.

Sound Choice Consulting LLC, founded in 2022 by Deborah Breen in the Outer Banks of NC, provides customized philanthropic consulting including capital campaign planning, strategic planning, board education, and executive/staff coaching for nonprofits.

Provides grant readiness assessments, grant writing, donor/funder research, and grant application support for small to mid-sized nonprofits and faith-based organizations