Full Circle Group Consulting Services

Board Development

Focused, confident Board members make smarter decisions. We prepare and strengthen your key volunteers for their role as fundraisers and leaders. Identifying and uitlizing their gifts and talents improves efficiency and effectiveness.

Our customized workshops, materials and personal counsel motivates your board while giving them a satisfying volunteer experience. Through formal and informal sessions, we build the expertise of a fundraising board. We also can address issues of board development, communications, personnel management, roles and expectations, or other topics. Enthusiastic and active boards are the result!

Individual Training and Mentoring

Confident, knowledgeable professionals are better able to make smart, right decisions. Our confidential Individual Training and Mentoring provides one-on-one customized counsel for Executive Directors and fundraisers for skill building, resource development and problem solving. This helps defrays the costs usually associated with seminars and can shorten a person’s learning curve.

Event Management & Fundraisors

Sucessful events and fundraisors are a specialty for Full Circle Group Consulting!  We have a proven success rate with events from 50 to 1000 attendees.  Leaveraging your already existing event to maximize your outcome or systematically creating a seamless new fundraising event can be provided by our skilled team.  Call today to learn more about our services.

Marketing Communication

Strong communication ensures share of voice, share of mind and share of heart. A smart program keeps you in control of discourse and dialogue as you reinforce your key messages. Marketing Communications builds value by communicating, educating and motivating others to invest time, money or interest. It protects your brand as it brings clarity and consistency – internally and externally.

We provide counsel, planning and implementation for the wide range of strategic marketing opportunities: branding, constituent communications, case writing, video production, media relations, research, audits, speech training, graphic and Web design, annual reports and newsletters, events, direct mail, advertising and more.

Prospect Research

We help you identify key individuals with the capacity to provide significant financial support … and the potential interest to do so. We prioritize and update funding sources and identifies new ones in our community. We also help narrow the field for grant or proposal submission.

Our relationships in the community allow for matching corporate sponsorships with your organizations needs. 

Strategic Planning

Research-based strategic planning builds the roadmap to your future. It guides your organization through a big-picture look at possibilities and potential as it defines long-range goals, measurable objectives and the creative strategies to reach them.

A well-crafted strategic plan helps you inspire leadership and supporters to rally around a common focus. It sends a clear message you are smartly run. Potential funders often require you to have a strategic plan.

Our team-oriented strategic-planning process refines your vision and mission, relevance and direction, brand and benefits, and much more. It addresses operations, marketing, personnel (staff and volunteers) and finances – including fundraising. The plan will extend three years; the mission-related elements stretch well beyond. It includes timelines, check points and action items.

Direct Mail

Direct mail provides a personalized, frequent and cost-effective means to encourage support and show appreciation. It maintains regular, positive contact with donors and prospects while cultivating future gifts. Well-crafted direct mail increases your response during special solicitations, annual giving drives and membership retention and acquisition efforts. We provide systematic campaigns to produce leads to build donor relationships.

Our direct-mail specialists reinforce your mission while building compelling messages and strong appeals. We provide counsel and hands-on support for writing, packaging, timing, list selection and segmentation for thematic letters, reply cards, e-mail solicitations, publication inserts, newsletters and other direct-response mechanisms

Executive Search

Full Circle Executive Search helps you confidently find the right professional and volunteer leaders to shape your organization's future. It eliminates hiring mistakes while reducing hassle. We help you define, seek, identify, screen and select key executives. We profile fundraising and success trait indicators as we identify the right prospects. We also can help you define hiring needs, candidate profile, confirm references and provide candid feedback, and offer and negotiation support. Confidentiality is assured.

Grant Writing

Our grant writing support helps you tackle that important but often time-consuming job of securing foundation and government funding. This lets you focus on other critical tasks of running your organization. Strategies and compelling responses help increase your potential for success. At the same time, we can help you increase your existing grants through education, research, cultivation and detail management.

Besides the writing, we help develop new sources of funding through research and stewardship. Knowledge of grant makers' preferences, timing, history and leadership avoids traps and can open shortcuts.