Benefits of using a consultant for a Capital Campaign:
- Brings professional expertise to bear upon a crucial parish project
- Assists parish to avoid catastrophic, often irreversible mistakes
- Provides one-on-one leadership coaching for the bishop, priest or executive officer
- Accompanies priest and team members for major gift solicitations
- Sets proper priorities
- Forces deadlines and timetables
- Possesses keen understanding of the highly complex and sophisticated major gift process
- Receives a $100,000 pledge when an untutored or inexperienced solicitor might receive $10,000.
- Sees challenges and opportunities
- Applies professional nonprofit development theory and methodology according to the ecclesiology of the Orthodox Church
- Can change the way things have always been done
- Helps develop and edit campaign literature, correspondence, etc.
