Fundraising

There are many tools in the fundraising tool belt and we’ve got a handle on them all.

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN STRATEGY, PLANNING, & EXECUTION

With more than 26 capital campaigns under our belt - from smaller initiatives to projects well over $40 million - we have the depth to help you assess the need, articulate value propositions, and train your entire team to base their work on an understanding of the complexities and nuances of a solid campaign.

MAJOR GIFT SOLICITATION

Cultivating major gifts is a skill that requires commitment, savvy, communication and finesse. From lower dollar asks to those into the millions, we can help you develop a major gifts strategy or we can help you make the ask.

DONOR CULTIVATION & STEWARDSHIP

Key to the success of any development plan is the on-going relationship-building and maintenance your team must employ to create bonds with your donors. Connecting a donor to their passion and helping them create meaningful impact is tantamount to any successful fundraising strategy. You invest heavily in donor acquisition - you should invest just as much to maintain those relationships. And because time doesn’t stop for anything, if you haven’t created a plan for millennial giving, you’re missing the boat.

VOLUNTEER RECRUITING STRATEGIES

Volunteers can make or break an organization. We can help you determine how to recruit quality volunteers who will help launch your organization into a stronger and lasting presence in your community.

FEASIBILITY STUDIES

Assessing the likelihood of a campaign’s success is an important component to developing any campaign of significance. We can help you determine your stakeholders, manage the interviews, conduct the interviews, maintain privacy and ultimately determine the likelihood of success.

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP (STRATEGY, SOLICITATION & COACHING)

Business support and visibility can be key when raising money in any community. LD Solutions can help you build a repertoire of appropriate business partners and manage the approach and on-going sponsorship details.

EVENTS

Events have traditionally been central to any fundraising plan - from virtual galas, to golf tournaments to auctions, we have years of experience that will bring out the most in your event.

Leadership

Sometimes the difference between success and missed opportunity comes down to leadership.

LEADERSHIP & BOARD DEVELOPMENT

Many organizations have strong Boards, but don’t do the necessary work to keep their Board engaged, passionate, and growing in expertise and skills. LD Solutions can consult with your Board and customize exercises and Board Training content to help your Board reach its potential.

Staff development and growth is just as critical as Board Development. We can help plan and execute retreats, work sessions or team building exercises that will keep your team engaged and passionate about their work.

STRATEGIC PLANNING

Great strategic planning requires innovative thinking. We can work with your leadership team to ensure you aren’t simply creating a “to do” list, while also refining the purpose and relevance of your cause.

PLANNED GIVING & ENDOWMENTS

Long-term giving is critical to the health of any organization, but establishing an endowment and/or encouraging donors to think about lasting gifts doesn’t come easy. LD Solutions can help you identify appropriate giving levels, goals and methods to establish an endowment and ensure its supporters and legacy donors feel informed, energized and part of something important.

DEVELOPMENT COACHING & CONSULTING

Whether your team is brand new to development or staffed by seasoned professionals, Lund Development Solutions can provide the expertise to advance your fundraising goals. Hands-on coaching can help you develop fundraising fundamentals, overcome hurdles stalling your team, and create or adjust fundraising strategies to take you where you want to go.

PROGRAM-RELATED INVESTMENT (PRI)

At times, foundations pursue alternative methods of investment to realize their mission rather than a typical investment that earns income. Examples of a PRI are: a loan, an equity investment, or a financial guarantee. Lund Development Solutions can assist your foundation in pursuing these alternative approaches with due diligence and sound assessment.

Grants

Find new opportunities with the team at LD Solutions.

Grounded in decades of proven grant writing success, our grant writing team can find new foundation opportunities, write your grants, help build relationships with foundations, and provide financial oversight for state or federal awards. You may choose to have us completely build and manage your entire grant program, or we can tailor what we do to your specific needs.

Our fundraising writing goes beyond foundation proposals. We can prepare a wide range of written communications that are essential to comprehensive fundraising development and success. These include case statements, social media fundraising, donor stewardship materials, donor fundraising letters, corporate sponsorship packages, annual reports, newsletters, and more.

GRANT IDENTIFICATION & PLANNING

We’re committed to being good stewards of your investment in fundraising, and don’t want you to waste your time and dollars in pursuing a foundation grant unless there is a good possibility of success. We know the foundation landscape in Oregon and beyond – that allows us to match you with the best foundation prospects, and then apply our relationships with foundations to advance your prospect of success. The foundation plan we develop to meet your revenue goals will be implemented with our oversight, coaching, and expert grant writing.

COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Preparing a grant can be a lot like juggling multiple balls in the air. There are foundation plans to develop and keep current, funders to research and contact, deadlines to meet, new content to develop, letters of support to solicit, budgets and other grant package materials to create, grant reports to submit…and success to celebrate! We’ll be there to help you do all of this and more.

FOUNDATION GRANT WRITING

With decades of experience, and millions of dollars in grants under our collective belt, we know how to translate your organization and project into a proposal that clearly responds to a foundation’s criteria and gets to yes! We’ll help you develop budgets and other required ancillary pieces that help you create robust proposals.

GOVERNMENT GRANT WRITING

Applying for government grants – local, state, and federal – is a special area of grant writing expertise that requires familiarity with often complex regulations and procedures. Our grant writing team has successfully navigated government grant processes for many clients over the years. Our clear understanding of complex regulatory and programmatic requirements and our strong relationships with local, state, and federal agencies, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, have made us extremely successful in this competitive environment. Our repertoire includes examples of successful past state and federal grants in the areas of social service, health, environmental education, historic preservation, parks & recreation, infrastructure, transportation, and economic development initiatives.

SPECIALTY GRANT WRITING

Our grant writing team includes experts in a wide variety of fields, with some specialties that may help your project succeed. Our diverse skill set includes historic preservation, arts administration and development, community development, parks and recreation, entrepreneurship, emergency management, brownfield reclamation, environmental restoration, and health care. We can also write environmental analyses, economic impact statements, historic resource surveys, and other related background documents that you may need for your grant applications.

GRANT REPORTING

Reporting on an awarded grant is a critical component of the grant funding process that requires preparation, data collection, evidence, and precision. Our reporting process will not only address reporting requirements but will convey a foundation or government agency’s wise investment in your organization. Bottom line, reporting can be simple or complex and we’ve got you covered either way.

Planning, Consultation & Project Management

Expertise and support in the areas of Planning and Project Management

PLANNING, CONSULTATION, & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Lund Development has staff members that can offer you and your organization a broad range of expertise and support in the areas of Planning and Project Management. Oregon’s land use system is complex – state and local land use laws, property constraints, development issues, environmental regulations, historic preservation programs – all of these can make bringing your project or program to reality both cumbersome and exhausting. Our team can assist you in navigating through these state and local land use processes, and manage your project from start to finish, including managing grant implementation and ensuring development condition compliance.