Fundraiser Strategies

Supporting Your Mission with Integrity & Focus

Fundraiser Strategies was created to bridge the gap between foundation and hospital executives. Use our experience as a hospital administrators to build a body of common language centered around donors, their priorities, and hospital desires for capital and operational funding.

How Can We Help You?

Boards
Major Gifts
Annual & Year-End Campaigns
Capital Campaigns
Internet & Web Fundraising
Fundraising Training

Welcome to Fundraiser Strategies. Our focus is growing YOUR fund development capacity.

We are with you every step on your journey to a bright future for your clients and mission! Your mission is unique so our professionals make your message heard in every setting. We have 4 key aspects to our philosophy:

Sensible Solutions – We provide you with practical and easy solutions for your business.
Forward Thinking – Our consultants are leading experts in hundreds of industries.
Our Client Strategy – We help our clients achieve and retain the greatest possible success.
Beyond The Box – We strongly believe in delivering innovative strategies to your ideas.

We are a boutique consulting practice working in collaboration with philanthropy visionaries and leaders across the nation to craft customized strategic and tactical plans for board development, staff training, feasibility studies, executive coaching, mentoring emerging leaders, and interim executive staffing. Fundraiser Strategies provides a spectrum of retreats and workshops in healthcare philanthropy to energize board members, enhance productivity of foundation executives, and facilitate professional growth for development staff.

Fundraiser Strategies was created to bridge the gap between foundation and hospital executives – to use my experience as a hospital administrator to build a body of common language centered around donors, their priorities, and hospital desires for capital and operational funding. Fundraiser Strategies adds significant value to the conversations foundation leaders have with their administrators, boards, donors, and advisors.

A Brief Conversation with Dennis McCuistion

Dennis McCuistion

by John Gilchrist, FAHP, CFRE Dallas/Fort Worth residents have enjoyed the pleasure of watching an institution on public television, Dennis McCuistion, tackle thorny issues in our society for over 25 years. Unreservedly independent, Dennis interviews leaders in politics, business and delivers the answers for his audience. Dennis is the Executive Director of the Institute for… CONTINUE

Not Another Giving Tuesday Post!

Thinking Head

With the hundreds of Giving Tuesday blogs, why add one more? At this point, either you have prepared your agency’s communication and solicitation packages or not – and that is okay, provided your year-end appeals are moving forward. Not another Giving Tuesday post! A little neuroscience for today… A recent Harvard Business Journal (HBJ) article… CONTINUE

John conducted the first development audit for the RotaCare Bay Area clinic system. His approach was methodical and very thorough. He quickly identified the areas our organization needed to address in order to implement a robust fund development plan. His strategies and tactics were excellent and achievable given our staffing resources. Our board was impressed with his grasp of our issues and his suggestions. I highly recommend John to any nonprofit organization seeking to create, augment, and implement fund and board development programs.

Augustine Gill
Chief Executive Officer
RotaCare Bay Area, Inc.

John Gilchrist, FAHP, CFREFor over 15 years, John has successfully guided non-profit organizations to deepen donor relationships, strengthen governing boards and staff and enthusiastically helping them raise over $100 million to enhance their service to the community. He also held responsibilities in strategic areas such as physician recruitment and contracting, managed care network development, administration of a physician hospital organization, hospital and health network marketing and business development, outpatient clinic management, and hospital operations.