Services: Five Areas, One Mission
Five service areas. One mission helping you grow what's working.
Every Ascendant engagement is built around where your organization is now and what it needs to scale next.
Where I Built & Led
01
Fundraising Strategy
Build the roadmap that turns mission into measurable revenue.
Most nonprofits don't have a fundraising problem. They have a strategy problem dressed up as a fundraising problem.
Ascendant works with your leadership to design a multi-channel fundraising strategy aligned with your mission, your team's capacity, and your growth goals — so every campaign, ask, and grant lives inside a system that compounds, not a calendar that scrambles.
What's Included
01 Revenue strategy assessment and gap analysis
03 Annual fundraising calendar and campaign architecture
02 Multi-channel fundraising plan (individual, grants, corporate, events)
04 KPIs, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure
02
Donor Strategy & Major Gifts
Move from transactional asks to relationship-driven giving that compounds.
Major gift fundraising isn't bigger asks. It's deeper relationships, better timing, and a portfolio strategy your team can actually execute.
Ascendant helps you build moves management systems, identify the right prospects, and equip your leadership with the language and confidence to close meaningful gifts.
What's Included
01 Donor pipeline audit and portfolio segmentation
03 Major gift cultivation and solicitation training
02 Moves management strategy and cadence
04 Stewardship strategy that drives retention and upgrades
03
Grant Research & Grant Readiness
Find the right funders, build the right systems, and submit applications that win.
Grants reward organizations that are ready before they apply. Ascendant helps you identify aligned funders, build the case-for-support and back-end systems funders expect, and submit applications with a measurable win rate — not a wishful one.
What's Included
01 Funder prospect research and pipeline development
03 LOI, concept paper, and full proposal development
02 Grant readiness assessment and organizational alignment
04 Grants management calendar and reporting systems
04
Strategic Planning
Translate your vision into a multi-year roadmap with measurable milestones.
Strategic planning isn't a binder that lives on a shelf. It's the operating system your leadership uses to make decisions, set budgets, and align the team around what matters most.
Ascendant facilitates strategic planning that produces a working document, not a ceremonial one with KPIs, accountability structures, and quarterly check-in rhythms your team can sustain.
What's Included
01 Board and leadership planning facilitation
03 KPI framework and accountability structures
02 3-to-5 year strategic roadmap development
04 Implementation and check-in cadence
05
Board & Leadership Support
Equip your board and leadership to fundraise, govern, and grow with confidence.
Your board can be your biggest growth lever or your biggest bottleneck and the difference is usually clarity, training, and structure, not personality.
Ascendant works with executive directors and boards to clarify roles, build fundraising capacity at the board level, and create the governance rhythms that let your organization scale without burning out leadership.
What's Included
01 Board assessment and role clarification
03 Executive director coaching and 1:1 strategic support
02 Board fundraising training and coaching
04 Governance and committee structure design
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