About Us
Miller, Calhoun & Company is credited with having been involved in over $1,000,000,000 raised for charities including health organizations, environmental agencies, social services, educational institutions, and cultural and religious organizations.
Miller, Calhoun & Company is credited with having been involved in over $1,000,000,000 raised for charities including health organizations, environmental agencies, social services, educational institutions, and cultural and religious organizations.
Mission Statement
To strengthen our client's resources, inspire their commitment and enhance relations with donors and constituencies concerning efficiency and mission effectiveness.
Our Philosophy
We strongly advocate a team effort as the approach to promote and improve an agency's philanthropic fund development practices, thus facilitating its capacity to execute its mission.
Pre-Campaign Planning
Prospective donors often determine their decisions regarding support for a campaign long before a solicitor approaches them. Using a team approach early in the planning process, we acquaint prospective donors with the institution's expectation of gift levels. The planning process, therefore, always involves key donor prospects with discussions of the institution's sense of mission, definition of needs, financial plan, fund raising goals and strategies
Prospective donors often determine their decisions regarding support for a campaign long before a solicitor approaches them. Using a team approach early in the planning process, we acquaint prospective donors with the institution's expectation of gift levels. The planning process, therefore, always involves key donor prospects with discussions of the institution's sense of mission, definition of needs, financial plan, fund raising goals and strategies.
In the Pre-Campaign Preparation Process, where we determine the feasibility of the prospective campaign, constituent involvement is realized through the formation of an Oversight Committee (or similar committee structure) that joins key leadership and prospects in the early stages of institutional analysis and planning. Meetings of this committee instill ownership, increase dedication, and re-enforce constituents' comfort with the campaign's purpose and the agency's practices. The institution then establishes its levels of expectation promptly, and begins to position prospects at gift levels sufficiently substantial to meet the projected campaign goals.
Five Reasons to Conduct a Development Assessment:
Development Assessments, often caused by Development Audits, provide a snapshot of current efforts while identifying missed opportunities. Strategies are shared, and together, a timeline of activities is incorporated to increase fundraising effectiveness – all in a few weeks independently or while conducting a feasibility study.
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To replace lost and lapsed donor interviews
To gain strategies to attract and keep new donors
To evaluate fundraising effectiveness and ROI
To identify missed opportunities
To educate the Board and Executive Staff on fundraising and responsibilities
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