Board Meeting.jpg

HELPING
GOOD BOARDS BECOME GREAT
FUNDRAISERS


Board Engagement: The First Step Toward Bringing Your Legacy to Life

As a nonprofit leader, you have a big vision for how to impact the community you serve. You know you’ll need enthusiastic supporters and hardworking capital to get there. What isn’t clear is how to begin mobilizing your board, staff, and community to raise those funds and set that transformation into action.

RO Walker Company Helps Good Boards Become Great Fundraisers

For over 35 years we’ve partnered with institutions and established nonprofit organizations to bring big vision to life through effective fundraising campaigns, working closely with boards, board chairs, Development Officers, and Executive-level leaders.

 
Icon-01.png

Fundraising

We believe Boards and Board members are crucial to fundraising success. Not only must they give generously, they must engage in activities that advance philanthropic success. We work to build a strategic approach to fundraising by training your Board and equipping them with the tools they need to be successful. We specialize in readying Boards for capital campaigns.

 
Icon-02.png

Engagement

Great Boards are truly committed to the organization’s mission and they relish their roles as strategic thinkers and active participants in the life of your nonprofit. We start by assessing your Board’s current engagement and customize our work to improve performance in ways tailored to your distinctive needs.

 
Icon-03.png

Planning

Strong Boards make plans: strategic, succession, financial and crisis management plans. We believe planning is an ongoing discipline not just a once-in-a-while event. We are skilled in facilitating inclusive planning processes and also in establishing infrastructure to encourage a continuous planning culture.

 

After three decades of supporting major gift fundraising and working with boards, here's what we know for sure:

Ordered list items with bold numbers

  1. The way your board engages in fundraising is the number one predictor of campaign success.

  2. Most organizations fail to maximize board member potential, leaving valuable skills and gifts “on the table.”

  3. Investing in your board today is an investment in the future of your organization and its ability to further the mission.

Website Color Background_Dark Tan.png
 
“We needed to develop a fundraising plan to support our growth and impact. We successfully added an effective development committee chair, identified new key funds and new individual funders. We were also able to recruit new supporters and funders to our board. Dick is always interesting, constructive, and enjoyable to work with.”
— Jack McCarthy, CEO and President, Appletree Institute