WE believe great strategy begins with connection

We partner with you to reach your strategic goals in ways that embody the unique culture and values of your organization and the people who make it great. We are proud to offer strategic services that meet your evolving needs.

Strategic counsel

Fundraising success is based on a number of key factors. We work with you to uncover your specific and current gaps to achieving your goals and then together, create the most sustainable strategic path forward.  This could include considerations around starting or building fundraising programs, goal setting, strategic planning, identifying funding priorities, contemplating and planning a campaign or refining what you are already doing.  

internal Assessments

A strong organizational foundation is important for fundraising success. Sometimes what stands in your way is your internal structure and process.  We work together to identify the strengths and opportunities you need to move forward most efficiently to realize greater fundraising success.

customized Coaching

Fundraising is about ideas, but it takes people to create, own, explain and embody them.  Effective staff and volunteer leadership in fundraising is critical to ensure best fundraising outcomes.  We work together on identifying and filling gaps in training and educating key staff and volunteers around achieving fundraising goals. 

 

 How It Works

Our process begins with a complimentary discovery call that helps us get to know one other and determine the overarching plan for your current needs. Once we start our work together, we work directly with you to come up with timelines and a path that best suits the unique needs of your organization.

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Client Experiences

  • RYERSON UNIVERSITY

    “I have known and worked with Avon for 25 years. Her approach hasn’t changed. She is smart, always highly strategic, incisive and insightful. She coaches leaders and teams to focus on what is most important - reaching our fundraising goals - and she has a deep understanding of the charitable sector. Quite simply, there is no one better than Avon!”

    — Rivi Frankle, Associate Vice President, Advancement

  • YMCA of Greater Toronto

    “Avon provided our team with significant support and strategic advice while in the midst of our Capital Campaign when it was definitely plateauing. She provided important insight and guidance around how best to refresh our case, the structure of our team and the engagement of our volunteers. Her ability to assess our situation and bring forward solutions and options were instrumental in securing the seven figure gifts we required to be successful and create momentum. It has been my experience that when retaining a consultant it is critical to have buy-in from your team. Avon immediately established her credibility as she shared her knowledge, experience, skills, coupled with a no nonsense approach and good dose of empathy and humour!”

    — Wendy McDowall, Chief Development Officer

  • McMichael Canadian Art Collection

    “Working with Avon was just what our team and our organization needed. She asks the right questions and makes our team think. She distills complex information into great insights and into clear, simple, actionable recommendations that are right for us. She really made us change the way we think about major gift fundraising at our organization – truly a game changer.”

    — Christine Sadler, Director of Development