If it touches your fundraising, I can help.

Do you need a full-time fundraiser on the ground, or is there a smarter structure for your organization? Larger organizations often have a development team already. Growing organizations often believe they need to hire one. I guide you through an evaluation of your development operation, staffing, donor base, and budget, and help you choose the model that truly fits.

Sometimes the answer is a dedicated team. Often it’s engaged local leadership who open the right doors, so the person with the most passion for your mission, you, is the one in the room. Either way, you’ll have a clear development plan with goals, priorities, and a timeline.

Before you replace a fundraiser, invest in them. Turnover is expensive: recruiting, onboarding, and training take months, and your donors go unattended in the meantime.

I serve as your senior development advisor. I meet with your team regularly, help them set clear goals, and coach them to reach those goals. Fundraisers, like salespeople, are driven by their numbers and by recognition. I know how to motivate them, and how to build a culture where everyone in your organization owns a part of fundraising.

Major gifts are won in person. I help you identify your top prospects, build a cultivation strategy for each one, and prepare you and your leadership for the conversation that matters most: the ask.

For Israeli organizations, I teach you how to plan and structure successful U.S. fundraising trips for yourselves: securing the right meetings, in the right cities, with the right people, so every trip is worth the flight.

Sometimes a promising new prospect appears with little known background. For these special situations, we offer a one-time service: our research specialist prepares a confidential profile on the prospect you’ve identified, covering giving history, philanthropic interests, affiliations, and estimated capacity. You walk into that first meeting fully prepared.

The most meaningful gift a donor can make is often the one that lasts beyond their lifetime. My planned giving expert helps you launch or strengthen a legacy program, including bequests, endowments, and gifts in perpetuity. We give you the language and tools to invite those conversations with confidence.

Grants can be valuable, and every grant carries a cost. Applications, reporting, and compliance take staff time that could be spent elsewhere. I teach you how to examine the true cost and benefit of each opportunity as it arises, based on your size and your team, so you can confidently pursue the grants worth winning.

A strong board is your most powerful fundraising asset. I help you recruit and vet the right leaders, build advisory boards and community councils, and launch or strengthen American Friends organizations.

Alongside your legal counsel, I help you define fiduciary responsibilities, terms of service, and meeting schedules. For Israeli organizations, I offer a practical guide to American board culture: how to run a board meeting, how often to communicate, and how to tell whether your board is truly engaged. An engaged board meets, communicates, and gives with purpose all year long.

Every word and image on your website, in your emails, and in your materials is a fundraising tool. Each one should answer a single question: will this inspire a donor to give?

I help you identify your ideal donor and craft a case for support that speaks directly to them. That includes evaluating whether your website truly speaks to your audience. A site full of flashing images and fast-moving video may look modern, but it can drive away the very donors you most want to reach.

Your donor database is one of the most expensive tools you own, and often one of the least understood. Many organizations choose a CRM on a salesperson’s recommendation, set it up with one administrator, and rarely discover everything it can do. Fields go unused, features sit dormant, and your team works around the software instead of with it.

Together, we evaluate your system from top to bottom:

• Is it the right fit? Does it match your size, your budget, and the way your team actually works?
• Is your donor information protected? Are you safeguarding your donors’ privacy and data?
• Are you using what you’ve paid for? Which features and fields are still waiting to be activated?
• Is your data working for you? Are your reports, segments, and pipeline giving leadership a clear view of where your fundraising stands?

Then I help your team put it to full use, so your database becomes a strategic asset instead of an expensive filing cabinet.

Your donors have entrusted you with their hard-earned money. You have an obligation to report to them as you would to shareholders. I help you build stewardship and reporting practices that thank donors well, show them their impact, and earn their next gift.

Whether you’re preparing for a capital campaign, an endowment drive, or an emergency appeal, I help you assess readiness, set realistic goals, and build the plan and leadership to reach them.