Capital Campaign
Campaign Planning Study
Vandever Batten designs a campaign planning study process that interviews the client’s staff, Board, prospective lead donors, and key stakeholders. As part of this process, Vandever Batten:
- Helps refine the case for support and develop materials to test with planning study participants
- Conducts internal and external interviews with Board members, staff, current, past, and potential donors as well as regional business and civic leaders
- Analyzes the collaborative campaign’s organizational structure, specifically staffing and operational systems and processes, to determine the necessary platform to host a capital campaign successfully
- Crafts a report that outlines the study’s findings and proposes fundamental elements for a campaign plan
Capital Campaign Management
- Campaign planning and strategy development
- Campaign budget development
- Cultivation planning
- Oversight of all aspects of campaign implementation
- Prospect identification and research alongside client
- Analysis of donor information systems
- Coordination of development of all campaign collateral materials with involvement of client staff and a graphic design firm
- Volunteer recruitment assistance and management
- Prospect assignments and briefings
- Solicitation material development and strategy
- Volunteer training and report meetings
- Frequent campaign updates to the appropriate leadership
- Problem-solving and strategic direction
Campaign Advisory Services
- Campaign strategy development
- Board development on fundraising and related organizational topics
- Campaign leadership identification and recruitment strategy
- Leadership gifts solicitation strategies
- Prospect identification and research
- Volunteer recruitment and management strategies
- Design of cultivation activities for campaign leadership prospects
- Outline of campaign communications strategies