Services

Smith Beers Yunker & Company can help make a difference in your Annual Fund and Direct Mail appeals by providing compelling written materials and management counsel to improve results. Our consultants will offer advice on ways to raise giving levels of current donors and ways to attract new donors.

For capital campaigns, Smith Beers Yunker & Company offers pre-campaign planning to determine an effective strategy and an achievable goal prior to a campaign launch. Smith Beers Yunker consultants will guide your development staff and volunteers each step of the way through planning and implementation of a campaign. Our staff will provide full-or part-time consulting for campaign management, donor research, and writing and design of campaign materials.

A no-obligation, no-fee session with a senior counselor to discuss pressing fundraising and management concerns.

Smith Beers Yunker & Company's researchers use the most up-to-date and comprehensive Internet databases to glean accurate information on prospective individual donors, corporations and foundations. We then provide complete and relevant donor profiles that can help you effectively approach donors for gifts. Our research team also will conduct a thorough review of your current and past donors to determine giving potential based on donor profiles and giving history.

FriendRaiser^sm uses a computer based CD (CD-ROM) which allows nonprofits to communicate in a most powerful way. It is a unique marketing and fundraising tool for nonprofits. Its potential impact is being compared to the impact of direct mail in the 60s and 70s and video and affinity cards in the 80s and 90s.

In the complicated and ever-changing world of grantmaking, Smith Beers Yunker & Company can help nonprofits establish and maintain active grant-seeking programs. Our Grantsmanship Training includes the basics of research, organization, tracking, online applications, reporting, and relationship building. It also covers the essentials of understanding the mindset of grantmakers, appealing to decision makers, writing persuasive proposals, following guidelines, and promoting teamwork within your organization.

An organization is only as strong as its leaders. Smith Beers Yunker helps board members understand and accept the vital role they play in keeping your organization financially strong and programmatically sound. Call upon Smith Beers Yunker & Company to strengthen your leadership by providing volunteer coaching, board retreat facilitation, and leadership recruitment.

Given the proliferation of nonprofits in our community and a tightening economic environment, many organizations are seeking strategic alliances. Smith Beers Yunker & Company understands the complexity of this journey and offers experienced guidance at each juncture. Organizational readiness must be assessed; potential partnerships explored; options evaluated; and significant decisions reached. Our consultants serve as neutral facilitators and guides, continually focusing on the desired outcome and encouraging consensus building at each point along the way.

Thorough analysis of your organizational structure, personnel, policies, and procedures by Smith Beers Yunker & Company's experienced management consultants will reveal the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. A comprehensive report of our team's findings will include actionable recommendations to help you build on your strengths and correct any weaknesses.

Smith Beers Yunker & Company's planned giving experts are specialists in guiding organizations through the process of establishing, maintaining, and managing formalized planned giving programs. They can help guide you and your major donors through the intricacies of the various types of trust funds as well as help you establish procedures for managing endowment funds. Through planned giving, your organization can achieve long-term financial stability and prepare to meet the future needs of your constituents.

Through Smith Beers Yunker's executive search service, you can be assured that only highly-qualified professionals will be presented to you as candidates. Our service includes well-targeted national advertising, resume review, pre-interview screening, and interviewing. We also provide training in management of fundraising programs, donor research, and donor and membership record keeping.

To help your board members perform more effectively, Smith Beers Yunker & Company offers coaching that motivates and builds confidence. It is common for volunteers to feel uncomfortable about asking for gifts; however, with proper coaching, they can learn to approach the fundraising challenge with an optimistic outlook that achieves positive results.

Without a compelling case for support, your organization is missing an essential fundraising tool. Smith Beers Yunker & Company's writers and designers are veterans of persuasive communication who know how to present your appeal in a manner that moves donors to action. Call upon us to prepare case statements for annual, capital and endowment campaigns, as well as newsletters, brochures, video scripts and speeches.