About Us
→ SERVE: An Experienced Team
→ GIVE: A Passionate Approach
→ LEAD: A Strong Foundation
Giving Design Group is:
- Strategic giving solutions for nonprofits (Serve)
- Charitable planning for individuals and families (Give)
- Cause branding and giving strategies for business (Lead)
Remarkable Service. Remarkable Outcomes.
Our consultants work with organizations—small and large, local and regional, national and international.
- Public libraries to Christian schools
- Urban ministries to suburban churches
- Hospitals and health care systems to higher education
- Agencies serving individuals with special needs to human aid providers.
All sharing a common desired outcome. Changed lives.
Remarkable Stories.
Your passion and mission is the lead story regardless of the structure, context, giving vehicle, or development need. It’s not about what you’re doing—it’s about what lives are changed by what you’re doing.
It’s the same for Capital Campaigns, Charitable Interest Assessments (feasibility studies), Major Gifts and Planned Gifts Cultivation and Solicitation, Annual Funds, Development Officer Coaching, Grant Writing, or Social Networks and Online Giving—the benefit to people is what drives charitable investment.
We know donors—of all ages and stages. We know the process and the science. We know how to craft a custom strategy for your development goals. And we will roll up ours sleeves and come alongside your organization, your board, your executive, your development team and your volunteer committees and together we will get the job done and change lives. It’s what we call Remarkable Philanthropy.
A Strong Foundation: Lead
“Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.” Phil. 4:17
We do this work because we know something remarkable—something miraculous—occurs when people like you and I think more about the needs of our neighbors and strangers than we think of our own needs.
And thinking is not enough. True stewardship requires action.
Fundraising & Philanthropic Counsel & Cause Marketing Specialists
Giving Design Group is one of the few consulting firms that provides comprehensive services to nonprofit organization and corporations as well as to individuals and families. Whether it is leveraging marketing and philanthropic dollars to achieve brand loyalty, assessing charitable interest for a project, leveraging major and planned gifts to grow endowment, improving employee morale, creating innovative partnerships, or connecting an organization’s mission to a donor’s passion, Giving Design Group can deliver the strategies for success.
Meeting Client Needs—Exceeding Expectations
All of our client relationships are tailored to accommodate specific needs. We understand diverse needs prohibit a single approach to client relationships and problem solving—we draw on our diverse experience base to craft just the right approach. Many engagements cover the total spectrum of philanthropic counsel and cause marketing. Yet, for other clients, it is the targeted delivery of one or more of our well defined areas of expertise—planned giving counsel, charitable interest assessments, cause branding initiatives, capital campaigns, publicity campaigns, development staff recruitment and coaching, and more—that helps achieve client goals and surpass client expectations.
A Passionate Approach: Give
