While we tailor every process to individual organizations, there are a few guiding principles.
Meetings should never be scheduled for more than 90 minutes, The committee itself should be small, but diverse in its representation of interests. Notes should be taken and shared. No gimmicks like warm up exercises or talking sticks or anything that makes participants feel self-conscious. Our strategy is to tap into your existing corporate culture, to understand internal relationships and to use language familiar to the organization to create ways defining and understanding short and long-term challenges.
Fundraising strategy depends on the who and the what, but always begins and ends with a deep exploration of existing relationships. We have conducted capital campaigns, individual donor campaigns, annual campaigns, written hundreds of government and private foundation grants. We know how to do this.