Sustainable Growth for Lasting Impact
Break the "Feast-or-Famine" Cycle and Build Sustainable Funding
Stop the Fundraising Struggle, Start Building Sustainable Growth
Whether you need a quick-start guide with our Fundraising Navigator or a comprehensive strategy for long-term impact, we partner with you to build a fundraising future that works.
Many nonprofits and movement-based organizations face the challenge of inconsistent funding, hindering their ability to maximize impact. At Giant Squid Group, we understand these struggles. We provide tailored solutions, from our focused Fundraising Navigator to our in-depth Strategic Fundraising Plans, designed to empower your organization and secure the resources you need to thrive.
Fundraising Navigator: Your Compass to Sustainable Growth
Not ready for a multi-month fundraising marathon? Our Fundraising Navigator offers a focused, one-page plan to align your efforts, provide a gut check, and get you organized for sustainable growth in the next 3-6 months – setting the stage for a larger strategy down the road. What if you had a simple, tactical plan that equipped you to…
Chart Your Immediate Course: Develop a streamlined fundraising strategy perfectly aligned with your current mission and vision for the next 3-6 months.
Navigate Near-Term Challenges: Overcome immediate obstacles and identify readily available opportunities with newfound confidence.
Reach Your Next Milestone: Achieve tangible growth in the short term and build a solid foundation for future fundraising success.
Get Unstuck: See If the Fundraising Navigator is Right For You
The Fundraising Navigator is specifically designed for organizations that:
Feel like their fundraising efforts are stagnant or stuck.
Are juggling too much and need clarity on high-ROI activities.
Are facing funding crunches and need to strategically allocate resources.
Have limited budgets but a strong desire to activate a fundraising plan.
Together, we’ll create a concise, one-page plan tailored to your immediate organizational needs and capacity. You’ll get direct coaching and support, access to key tools, templates, and best practices, and the support (and cheerleeding!) you need for implementation and impact.
Our Fundraising Navigator plans are intentionally designed with a short timeline and smaller budget so you can focus on what matters - activating your fundraising plans and bringing in revenue for your mission. Most plans are completed within 4 to 6 weeks, and start at $2,000.
Dive Deep - Strategic Fundraising Sustainability Plans
Build Your Foundation for Lasting Impact With a Strategic Fund Development Plan
What are your biggest fundraising challenges today? Is your organization going through a transition period, creating the opportunity to re-orient your processes and systems? Perhaps you need to figure out how to proportionately balance major gift officer portfolios. Or maybe you need to build an alumni engagement program for your school, or a grateful patient program for your hospital.
Develop a roadmap for long-term growth and impact with our tailored strategic fundraising plans. We partner with you to create pragmatic, data-informed plans that not only secure funding but also empower your leadership and strengthen your organizational capacity.
A Partnership Approach to Sustainable Growth
We go beyond simply creating a plan for you. We partner with you in a highly interactive and collaborative process to co-create a fundraising strategy that is both meaningful and transformative. When you partner with us, you get a fundraising plan that you’ll actually use.
A plan that meets you where you are: We recognize that every organization is unique. We develop plans that address your specific needs, goals, and context.
By fundraisers, for fundraisers . We combine rigorous analysis with creative strategies to craft effective and lucrative campaigns.
Values-aligned and Community-Centric: We embed your mission, vision, and values (including DEI) into the core of your fundraising strategy.
Realistic and pragmatic: We strike a balance between ambitious goals and the practical realities of your budget and staff capacity. We create plans that can adapt to changing opportunities and circumstances.
Get in touch and let’s start planning your fundraising future.
We begin by working with you to define your holistic, tactical, and strategic priorities. To get a clear picture of where things stand, we conduct a four-area audit, assessing your current practices in leadership, individual fundraising, institutional funding readiness, and systems and operations.
Phase Three: Impact
We ensure your team and board are equipped to put the plan into action. We provide the resources and training you need to effectively implement the plan. Our focus is on engaging stakeholders, evaluating the success of your fundraising efforts; telling compelling narratives that resonate with donors; and cultivating and maintaining strong connections with your supporters.
Phase One: Intention
Phase Two: Investment
In this phase, we identify the resources (staff, funding, systems, and tools) you'll need to achieve your goals. We then facilitate working sessions with your team to co-create new practices and systems. This collaborative process helps us develop concrete goals for revenue and activities, and define updated roles and processes.
Phase Four: Implementation
Once your plan is complete and presented to the board and staff, you’re ready to start fundraising! We’re here to help with additional fractional support, grant writing, strategic advising, or campaign creation.
Our fundraising sustainaibility plans are designed to be a comprehensive, deep dive into your development department, staffing, and leadership. We will typically work together over the course of three to six months, and plans start at $7,500. Let’s get started!