Nonprofit executives, imagine that your beloved Director of Development (or VP or Chief Development Officer) just gave notice. How will you replace this strategic partner who keeps the entire fundraising team motivated and donors engaged?

Sometimes, jumping into a new recruitment process feels right—and sometimes, it just doesn't. Maybe you don't have the time to launch a big search right now. Maybe there are actually a couple of things you want to tweak in the role before finding a new director.

Whatever the reason, you wish for a lifeline. An interim solution. Someone who:

🆘 Gets what you're going through.

🆘Deeply understands fundraising and the responsibilities of Development leadership.

🆘Can examine the director role and help you think through adjustments.

🆘The fundraising team can count on for guidance, hands-on collaboration, and encouragement.

🆘Can keep the trains running on time.

🆘Doesn't try to shove their ways of doing things into your workflow, but flexes to help you and the team find solutions and deepen best practices.

Sarah J Consulting offers an interim fundraising leadership engagement that typically lasts 6-12 months. It's successful because:

🤩 We speak your language. We understand your pain points. We'll take things off your plate, approach the work through an organizational lens, and even provide a bit of therapy.

🤩 We help staff members with their individual responsibilities and take on team-wide tasks, such as fundraising plans or board reports.

🤩We are super quick studies. We've seen it all. We can size up a situation in record time.

🤩 We roll up our sleeves. We fix data reports. We ghostwrite donor letters. We help set sponsorship levels. We run committee meetings. We staff events.

🤩We genuinely like people.

Executive directors who hired SJC as an interim fundraising leader say that we:

"...had the answers we needed for major gifts and campaign strategy. They wanted us to achieve our mission, rather than their version of our mission; they don’t have a cookie cutter way of approaching the work."

"...gave thoughtful, knowledgeable and amiable guidance when we needed them."

"...excel at listening. They continually asked us what our needs were and tailored the engagement from there.”