Advancement

Imagine an Advancement/Development process at your school that significantly increases revenues coming into your school from donors and financial supporters of the school.

Whether you are a well-established school and have an Advancement person or are a smaller school looking to develop an Advancement strategy, we will significantly increase the amount of revenues raised through your existing fundraising or donor base.

Large amounts of money are commonly left ungiven by donors and financial supporters as a result of an unfocused Advancement strategy, lack of training, and an absence of appropriate policies, protocols, and systems that encourage donors to give. These are funds that every school can utilize to enhance the learning environment for their students. More donors giving more money is the outcome of our work.

Do It Yourself Tools - Boost Your Performance

ISPG has compiled 30 years of work with more than 250 private schools into a library of resources to advance private school Advancement excellence.

As a subscriber you will gain access to monthly Zoom meetings with an experienced Advancement specialist who has built and rebuilt Advancement functions at schools large and small and vastly increased productivity and funds raised.

You will also have access to videos laying out the best practices in private school Advancement, guides on how to exponentially increase giving, roles and responsibilities for all positions in a highly effective Advancement office, policies and procedures for donor management, gift acceptances, and all other Advancement initiatives, event templates, and the foundational tool for all school fundraising, the Annual Appeal.

Project Management Services - Take Advancement to a New Level

If you are wanting to establish or reinvigorate the Advancement Function at your school, ISPG can provide project management services that will deliver private school Advancement best practices and immediate results for your school’s fundraising efforts.

We will equip you with all of the tools that your school will require to function at the highest level and take a hands on approach to the implementation of new events and activities all the while coaching and training your people so that they can deliver the type of results that you expect from the school’s investment in having an Advancement department.

ISPG will:

1. Evaluate your school’s Advancement functions;

2. Identify new goals and greater objectives for Advancement;

3. Recommend a specific course of activities or actions that will fully integrate a culture of giving into your school;

4. Introduce new fundraising strategies and practices

5. Provide professional development training for Advancement personnel and others

6. Align systems, policies and protocols with your school’s culture;

7. Oversee the implementation and execution of the strategy;

8. Set financial expectations for first three years and provide a roadmap to achieve them.

Email info@ispginc.com call 1-800-505-8929, or reach out via our Inquire Now form to discuss your school’s needs or to obtain additional information.

Examples of our project outcomes:

• Doubled the number of donors in a 6th – 12th-grade college preparatory school’s Annual Appeal from any of the previous seven year’s results - +$300K

• Increased net revenues by 46% through the restructuring of a 150-year-old well-established school’s major event fundraiser - +$100K

• Increased Annual Appeal giving by over 50% in a well established private school with 1000 students - +$ 200K

• Increased the number of donors by over 40% in a large college preparatory school’s Annual Appeal

• Increased the number of annual donors by 30% overall in an all-boys college preparatory school