Brazen Fundraising — You don't have to carry this alone

Boutique fundraising consulting for nonprofit leaders. Ten-person team. Three former EDs. Campaigns from $750K to $150M. We name the uncomfortable truth most consultants won't.

Fundraising consulting from people who've been in your chair

You've sent the appeals. Pitched the grants. Smiled through the galas while everything else was on fire.

And you're still stuck - there's never enough of anything to achieve your impact. And "if only" is a constant loop in the back of your mind.

We get it.

We've been exactly where you're sitting — and we've helped non-profit organizations and charities raise from $750K to $150M without burning their people out in the process.

The thing nobody says out loud

You're not imagining it.

The late nights. The board that says they'll help but never does. The donors who give once and vanish.

You've sat in the board meeting where someone says "fundraising is everyone's job" and then nobody does it.

You've done everything you should be doing - and still came up short.

And sometimes a quiet thought shows up when you're staring at the ceiling at 2 AM:

What if I'm just not cut out for this.

You're under-resourced and over-responsible. And you're working in a system that was set up to fail from the start.

The reframe

Nothing is wrong with you .

The charitable sector was built on the assumption that passion would be enough. That mission-driven people would figure it out. That needing help meant you weren't cut out for leadership.

The system handed you an impossible job and called it a calling.

We think that's worth getting angry about. And we think it can change.

Imagine instead

Someone who's been in your chair.

Not a consultant who shows up, drops a report, and disappears.

Someone who picks up when you call. Who's already prepped for your board meeting because they know what's coming.

Imagine not rewriting that donor email alone at midnight.

Imagine walking into your next campaign knowing someone's got your back.

That's what happens when you stop carrying it all alone.

Why Brazen

We fix the fire you called about. And we find the system that started it.

You'll call about the year-end appeal. Or the capital campaign timeline. Or the donor who ghosted. And we'll help with that.

But while we're writing that appeal, we're also going to ask why your board hasn't talked to a donor in two years.

While we're coaching you through the campaign, we're going to find out that your stewardship system is a spreadsheet from 2019.

Three former EDs. One current ED. Three CFREs. Two PMPs. Your strategists and your workhorses. Most firms are one or the other. Based in Western Canada, working across North America.

A case we think about a lot

When one ED called us, she had 47 days until payroll and a board that hadn't held a real fundraising conversation in two years.

Four months later, her board had signed a charter. Her donor retention was up. She'd found $400K in capacity the org had been sitting on. And she stopped checking the bank account every morning.

She didn't become a different person. She got a different system.

Three tracks. No wrong door.

You've read this far. Something's not working — and you know it.