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Messina Strategies is a strategic, fundraising consulting firm. Whether you are launching a new development program or enhancing an established portfolio, our services can be tailored to meet the needs of your organization and those you serve.
Uncover your organization’s strengths and capabilities and build your roadmap for fundraising success
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Leverage our expertise to run and scale your individual, foundation and corporate fundraising programs
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Partner with our expert coaches and trainers to take your program to the next level
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Messina Strategies will evaluate your operations, identify your organization’s strengths and capabilities and provide a roadmap for fundraising success.
Messina Strategies will evaluate your operations to uncover your organization’s strengths and capabilities, providing you with a clear roadmap to fundraising success. We offer comprehensive assessments of your entire fundraising operation or tailored analyses focused on specific areas such as major gifts, planned giving, individual giving, and institutional giving.
Our thorough evaluations identify both strengths and weaknesses, highlighting what’s working and what needs improvement. We equip you with the most effective strategies to elevate your fundraising efforts. For a more robust engagement, our Development Assessments can be combined with in-depth prospect research and short-term coaching, ensuring your program reaches its full potential.
Messina Strategies’ data-driven development planning services will assist your organization in determining how to build a sustainable fundraising program. Leveraging decades of fundraising experience, we will conduct an in-depth analysis of your organization’s revenue generating activities and conduct stakeholder interviews to create a customized fundraising plan.
Messina Strategies will provide you with an integrated, customized fundraising plan based on your organization’s mission, unique strengths and positioning, and prior fundraising success. But we won’t just tell you what to do; we’ll show you how to do it. We will even provide a detailed calendar of activities that includes deadlines and objectives.
Through this 12-month partnership, Andrea Messina will partner with you to help you build the fundraising program you’ve always wanted for your organization. This engagement includes a full development program assessment, strategy development and implementation plan. Plus, Andrea will link arms with you for an entire year to build systems, train your staff and board and begin thoughtful execution of your new high-impact fundraising program.
Messina Strategies has been an invaluable partner to The VIVA School as we develop our fundraising program from the ground up. We initially engaged Andrea for the Executive Director Partnership, leveraging her decades of fundraising and nonprofit leadership experience, which she thoughtfully tailored to our unique identity, mission, and goals. With Andrea’s guidance, we have successfully completed both short- and long-term planning, expanded our portfolio of institutional funders, and laid the groundwork for our major gifts and digital fundraising initiatives. Her support has encompassed everything from building systems to crafting strategy and providing coaching. If you’re looking for a solution to launch a new program or elevate your fundraising efforts, I wholeheartedly recommend Messina Strategies.
If your organization needs to fill a short-term leadership position, Messina Strategies’ interim management services bring you an experienced chief development officer to guide your program to the next chapter. We will ensure smooth daily operations and team support. Most importantly, we ensure you don’t lose any momentum while you are seeking to hire new staff.
Provide direct fundraising support and/or team management through a weekly team meeting and regular deliverables review.
Ensure timely, quality submission of proposals and reports to funders.
Provide guidance, advice and project management for funder stewardship to ensure that you are building relationships to boost giving over time.
Advise on hiring and onboarding of future staff.
In addition to full program management, Messina Strategies offers more focused engagements tailored to your unique needs such as campaign planning and feasibility studies, campaign management, case development, major gifts initiatives and grants program management.
When Free Minds reached the point in our development where we needed to build a fundraising team, we partnered with Messina Strategies to help us navigate the transition. Andrea quickly engaged with us to identify our fundraising priorities, ensuring that all deliverables were on track and of the highest quality. She developed systems and launched new initiatives to enhance donor engagement and increase giving, all through an equity lens that elevated our members in our storytelling.
What truly set Andrea apart was her genuine care for our mission. She regularly attended performances and took the time to understand our members and community, strengthening our partnership and amplifying the impact of her work with Free Minds.
Messina Strategies offers flexible, scalable coaching and training solutions designed to meet your organization’s unique needs. Training and coaching sessions are led by a former chief development officer and qualified leadership coach combining coaching proficiency and a deep understanding of the role of a fundraiser.
We offer regular feedback and functional coaching to executive directors and chief development officers to promote real-time, dynamic enhancements to your development program. This can be completed as a single service or in tandem with longer-term assessment and planning activities.
Messina Strategies can provide regular coaching and onboarding support to ensure the new leader’s successful implementation of the fundraising plan.
We customize training for your staff and/or board of directors. Topics can include major gifts, grant writing, board fundraising, storytelling, donor stewardship, campaign planning and more.