10 Steps to a Strong Transformative Major Gifts Year
Here are 10 essential steps to take to ensure your major gifts program starts and finishes strong, resulting in a transformative, epic year.
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Elevate health and well-being.
Together.
Why Accordant?
We are founded in relationship-based philanthropy, governance and community partnership.
First, our thinking. We believe health care has the greatest ability to improve the lives of people and impact communities, and philanthropy fuels the ability to succeed.
Second, our team. Each member of our team has more than 20 years of experience. Not as consultants, but as Chief Philanthropy Officers, Major Gift Officers, Planned Giving Officers and more. No other firm understands your challenges like we do.
Third, our approach. We created the Transformative Philanthropy™ model which holistically addresses the most important levers to performance. We have also pioneered tools and processes to align and engage teams, leadership and boards to ensure the best possible outcomes.
The team at Accordant elevated our vision and helped us build our team through strong strategic insight, programmatic expertise and leadership development. Through feasibility to campaign planning and launch, they helped us build a centralized support team – expanding us from one system employee to a team of 12 in just three years – while also ensuring that fundraising and impact remain local at our nine hospitals. Our philanthropy program has faced exponential growth in infrastructure since 2019 with an overall team of 37 staff members, while also experiencing increases in fundraising success – growing from an average of $8 million per year to more than $25 million in our most recent fiscal year.
Roy Lowdenback
Vice President, Philanthropy
Baptist Health
Louisville, Kentucky
Our Team
Our consultants average 27 years of health care leadership experience, and most hold professional certification as a Fellow of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (FAHP) or as a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE).
Betsy Chapin Taylor, FAHP
CEO
Tim Brown
Vice President of Operations
Pamela Maroulis, FAHP, CFRE
President and Principal Consultant
Sarah Burdi, CFRE
Principal Consultant
Susan Attwell, CFRE
Principal Consultant
Linda Roszak Burton
Principal Consultant and Certified Executive Coach
Michael J. Beall
Principal Consultant and Communications Practice Leader
Lori Counts, FAHP, CFRE
Principal Consultant and Certified Executive Coach
Our Services
Accordant harnesses the power of charitable giving and philanthropic partnerships to propel health organizations and their communities through a wide range of customized services.
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