What We Do
Whether you’re trying to beef up your annual fund, raise millions for a new building, increase your endowment, or diversify your funding sources, Gary Friedmann & Associates can help you reach your goal.
We work with nonprofits large and small, organizations run by people who care deeply about their mission. With our help, they strengthen their boards, create workable budgets, increase public awareness, and raise project and operating funds.
We can work with you on a short-term basis or provide full-service fundraising counsel throughout an entire campaign. Give us a call to talk about how you can make your organization more effective. Together we can help you develop the skills, strategies, and funding you need to make the difference you envision.
If you don’t know where you want to be as an organization in five years, you are unlikely to get there. We can help you envision your desired future and outline the steps you need to take to achieve it.
Strategic Planning
Whether you are looking for a new Director of Development or Executive Director, GFA supports all aspects of attracting, vetting, interviewing, hiring and onboarding your next executive. We develop job descriptions, help advertise the position, screen and rank applications, organize and coach the search committee, draft interview questions, and guide post-interview communications.
Executive Search
Board Development
Boards and committees provide volunteer leadership and vital resources to the nonprofit sector. We can help strengthen your board by providing training on their role as fundraisers, how to establish a board and committee structure that keeps the focus on strategically important work and attracts new members, and how to partner with professional staff to foster a culture of innovation and excellence.
Campaign Planning
Nervous about starting a big campaign? We will assess your likelihood of success, where the money will come from, and the volunteers who will help you achieve it. We have completed 26 capital campaign planning and feasibility studies for organizations ranging from start-ups to well-established institutions. Each project is tailored to address key issues and to counsel senior staff and volunteer leadership in best practices required for a successful campaign.
This is our specialty, and what we’ve become most known for in the State of Maine. We provide the guidance, encouragement, organization, and materials you need to successfully launch, run and complete a major campaign.
Campaign Management
If you feel like you’re in a bit of a rut and nothing is working anymore, you need a fresh perspective. We offer an informed assessment of your fundraising effort’s strengths and weaknesses recommend practical steps you can take to increase your fundraising revenue.
Development Audits
Are you utilizing all of your digital platforms to their fullest potential? Your audience will remember 95% of your video's message (vs. 10% from any text), spend 88% more time on your website if it has video content, and are far more likely to take concrete action after viewing. From strategy, to story, to production and, most importantly, donor engagement once you've hit "upload," we'll help you harness the power of video to reach your goals.
Video Communications
Hiring an executive director is one of the most important decisions any nonprofit board will make. The hiring process takes, on average, three to six months. Increasingly, nonprofit boards are recognizing the value an experienced Interim Executive Director can provide during this transition.
Gary Friedmann & Associates can guide your nonprofit though this critical time to assess and improve organizational effectiveness, foster a culture of open communication and trust, and deepen the engagement of the board and staff teams. Services provided by our experienced nonprofit professionals include:
Leading and managing day-to-day operations and programs, working with your staff to meet mission, program, and fundraising commitments;
Working collaboratively with the board, guiding the strategic priorities for the organization while ensuring that the transition to a new leader is successful; and
Leveraging our deep experience to provide a candid assessment of organizational strengths and opportunities while laying the groundwork for the new executive director to be successful.