Sage Social Impact creates holistic donor and community engagement plans. We dig in to get a realistic sense of your organization’s capacity and make the most of it, honing in on areas with the greatest potential and filling gaps in your funding pipelines. Sage can create plans from existing data or perform needs assessment and market analysis. We specialize in cutting through development jargon and unneeded complexity, creating actionable plans that deliver results.

Sage advises on creating annual fund campaigns that stand out with compelling themes across all mediums. Ask us about acquisition strategy, donor advancement, monthly giving, and lapsed donor appeals along with web and social media integration. We help you insure that no opportunity falls through the cracks and that all donors, big and small, feel like part of the family, united by passion for your mission.

The deep charitable intentions that motivate donors to leave a legacy is something we cherish, and our plans both inspire action and reflect deep respect. Sage can help you create your first planned giving program, craft messaging and materials, or analyze existing efforts to help you better steward these special partners.

Sage Social Impact specializes in donor cultivation and stewardship and can help your organization implement systems to ensure that major investors remain engaged with your organization. With decades of experience with a diversity of causes, Sage can provide insight into donors’ motivations and help you connect on a deeper level. We specialize in overcoming the fear of asking and helping your board and staff develop an authentic and relaxed way of connecting with important partners.

Sage can help you create the policies and consistent action needed for endowment building. We can also help you with major campaign readiness and donor preparation with advanced donor stewardship and marketing. We can also help you develop a plan of campaign, create motivated committees, and start asking.

Sage Social Impact specializes in motivational writing and budget presentation, targeting communications to funders’ key areas of concern. With experience working with both grant-makers and grant seekers, we have unique insight into the grantmaking process. We not only write winning proposals but seek to create ongoing relationships with institutional funders. Sage can also help smaller organizations with grant readiness or help put finishing touches important proposals.

We feel strongly that all nonprofit organizations should have formal donor acknowledgement and retention plans, whether you are stewarding a handful of small donors or a large portfolio of major investors. Sage Social Impact can help you create tiered acknowledgement and engagement systems to nurture the spirit of philanthropy in donors big and small. Together, we can ensure that no donor falls through the cracks or feels unappreciated.

We all know that nonprofit boards should play a significant role in fundraising, but we don’t always practice what we preach. Sage can help your board create policy infrastructure to support staff and make fundraising as impactful as possible. Sage can also train board members to support staff in donor cultivation, acknowledgement, and stewardship. Can you turn fear of fundraising into an addiction n to philanthropy—yes you can!

Because long-term relationship management is the key to fundraising success, our sector’s current crisis of development staff turnover is incredibly costly. Sage Social Impact can help you hire and retain quality development staff from creating realistic job descriptions to coaching staff to higher levels of achievement. Give us a call and see how supporting your development department might be the best capacity-building investmentfor your organization.