Our Services

Charitable fundraising should reflect the organization's culture, mission, vision, and focus. Whether you're trying to create a signature event, position your team to maximize resources, or identify and engage individual donors, Mary Ann Thomas, Nonprofit Consulting, Inc. (MATNC), provides leadership and expertise to strengthen your development program’s foundation and support growth and expansion.

MATNC offers a variety of services to support nonprofit organizations’ development and fundraising initiatives. Services include strategic planning, process management, mission-focused fundraising, leadership coaching, speaker selection and training, and best practices implementation for nonprofit management, including the following.​

​Visit our Projects page to learn about some of the services we've provided for Charlotte nonprofit agencies.

Mary Ann Thomas was instrumental in the coaching and preparation of the guest speaker (a very nervous high school student!) for our annual fundraising event.”
​~ Mary Nell McPherson, Freedom School Partners

Building a Strong Foundation

• Data analysis
  • Funding sources
  • Donor segmentation
  • Trends
  • Major campaigns
  • Prospect identification – “data mining”
• Development calendar creation
• Grant applications and reporting
• Database best practices
• Gift processing and acknowledgement
• Tracking donor cultivation
• Stewardship
• Program and mission videos

Creating Structure with a Strategic Focus

• Define staff roles and responsibilities
• Forecast revenue projections
• Set fundraising goals
• Select solicitation strategies
• Create implementation calendar to include a standard reporting matrix
• Set up a management information system that maintains quality information about donors and prospects
• Volunteer management

Innovating Ideas to Sustain and Expand Resources

• Mission-focused signature events
  • Coach and mentor staff or volunteer coordinator
  • Speaker preparation and coaching for highest impact
    
  • Select venue, coordinate vendors
  • Identify sponsors
  • Manage, train table captains
  • Develop event program materials, including videos, slides, program, signage, pledge cards, etc.
  • Event execution (setup, show running, etc.)
  • Post-event oversight (thank you calls, gift processing and reconciliation, etc.)
• Program-objective alignment with mission for maximum impact and effectiveness
• Marketing and targeted appeals
• Major donor prospecting and cultivation

​To learn more about how we partner with charitable organizations to create sustainable revenue and best practices for nonprofit management, contact us today.