On average, we manage more than 200 major capital, endowment, and comprehensive campaigns each year.
We are experts in campaign planning and management, leveraging both our proven experience and our commitment to data-driven approaches and innovation.
We offer a range of partnership opportunities for ongoing counsel and tailor our level of support and service offerings to your needs. Most commonly, we provide a full-time Campaign Director for whom your project is their dedicated focus
Successful campaigns triumph in four key areas: case, leadership, prospects, and plan.
Create and communicate your case for support
Working with your team, we will further develop a concise and compelling case for support and marketing documents that clearly outline the need, urgency, and impact of the effort.
Convening and guiding your key volunteer and staff leadership
Campaign leadership is essential to a successful campaign. We assist with identifying and recruiting internal and external leaders – such as your President/CEO, VP for Development, Campaign Chairs, and others – to form a Campaign Planning Task Force. This task force will serve as special counsel to your fundraising team. Together, we will work with the task force and with you to answer and execute on high-level strategic questions and priorities.
Identifying prospects and creating donor cultivation strategies
In addition to helping you identify and segment donors, we design specific plans and strategies for each of your top prospects including cultivation strategies, recognition opportunities, timing, request amounts, and overall approach.
FinaliSing the campaign plan
We will develop a new or build upon an existing campaign plan which will include budget, organisational charts, staffing solutions goals and benchmarks, tables of gifts, campaign communication strategies, a calendar of cultivation events, and more.
We will be your accountability partners throughout the entirety of our engagement by monitoring and tracking activity benchmarks weekly, monthly, and quarterly – and adjusting when necessary.
Featured Case Studies
Durham University
Europe, Middle East, Africa
Durham is one of the world’s great Universities and one of the most distinctive. The institution is a world top 100 university with a global reputation for excellence in teaching and research. CCS began working with Durham in 2017 on their largest ever fundraising campaign.
Gonzaga College SJ
Europe, Middle East, Africa
Gonzaga College SJ, in Ireland, needed to fund critical investments in its facilities, so they launched a €20 million fundraising initiative. CCS was brought on to assist in the second phase of the campaign, and was able to help Gonzaga exceed its goal on time.
Diocese of Westminster
Europe, Middle East, Africa
CCS worked with the Diocese over a three year period to help plan and implement the Growing in Faith initiative, which secured more than £37M.
