The Starrs Aligned Impact Framework

 

$1B+

raised

500+

events

Starrs Aligned specializes in building creative, effective, and comprehensive fundraising plans and strategies that include:

  • Comprehensive Campaigns

  • Major Gifts Programs

  • Stewardship and Donor Relation Programs

  • Board Development

  • Interim Development Management

  • Philanthropic Advising for Impact at Scale

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For Organizations

  • Rigorous, foundational analysis of fundraising activity and available data 

  • Organizational capability assessment, including board assessment

  • Review of “inventory of needs”

  • Review of fundraising activities and programming

  • External bench-marking

  • Organizational culture assessment

  • COVID-19 crisis-focused organizational and context/landscape assessment

  • Determine pre-COVID 19 reliance on events and post-COVID 19 pivots.

For Philanthropists

  • Deep probing into motivations, goals, intentions and preferences to determine the underpinnings and guideposts for the partnership—the building blocks of creating relationship

  • Explore where these issues fit within the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • In-depth assessment of desired donor/philanthropist motivations and desired impact

  • Determine if COVID 19 presents new motivation for giving and how to optimize it

 
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For Organizations

  • Development of recommendations for optimizing existing fundraising approaches and assets, including pruning of inventory

  • Development of organizational culture and design recommendations 

  • Creation of Board Development recommendations, including adding new board members and increasing board diversity

  • Co-creation and design of concepts for individual and experiential fundraising and community building methods and programs

  • COVID-19 crisis-focused opportunity identification

For Philanthropists

  • Identification of who is currently addressing the problems that need solutions

  • Set measurable goals and time-frame for analysis

  • Development of customized, comprehensive giving guidelines document

 
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For Organizations

  • Spectrum of involvement from direct execution to consulting/guidance (in collaboration with organization teams and Starrs Aligned partners). Some level of Starrs Aligned guidance/involvement is required to ensure quality control

  • Major gift/donor coaching, teaching and training

  • Implementation of COVID-19 crisis-focused interventions

For Philanthropists

  • Negotiation and drafting of gift agreements including reporting and recognition.

  • Review and analysis of data to make informed decisions and measure impact

  • Ongoing monitoring and optimization 

This process got Bono
singing happy birthday.

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