What We Do

Development of Compelling Case statements

Annual Fund Campaigns

Capital Campaigns

Strategic Long Range Planning and Endowments

Partnership Development between Staff & Board of Directors

Training of Fundamentals of Fundraising

Developing Corporate Relationships

Prospect Research

Development of Compelling Case statements:

Using a wealth of experience, our staff will work with the organization and assist them in writing the Compelling Case for funding necessary to generate the needed support.

Annual Fund Campaigns:

Believing that all fundraising starts and ends with an ever-expanding Annual Fund Campaign, The Mason Group takes their clients from acquisition to major gifts in a step wise and predictable process. Utilizing the organization’s natural constituency to maximize relationships within the organization, they can assure the client that working with TMG will increase volume and donors and also raise their average gifts annually.

Capital Campaigns:

The average U.S. Charity runs a capital campaign for special needs about every eight years. From Feasibility Studies to Campaign Plans to implementation and completion, TMG has led numerous organizations through this exciting process. Raising awareness of these needs and capitalizing on the prospective donors that have a reason to give is always a focus of TMG.

Strategic Long Range Planning and Endowments:

Using the strengths that the organizations may not know it has, TMG utilized an interactive method of Strategic Long range Planning that not only considers the present, but focuses on the future. There are several distinctions that TMG brings to this expertise.

Long Range Planning must have the details included of what the changed in the plan will cost! Without this invaluable sense of what it will take financially, the Plan can fail.

Endowment fundraising is such a critical element in all non profits. Each organization should have a substantial amount set aside for the future and TMG helps to carry that theme through in each venue of raising money.

Partnership Development between Staff and Board of Directors:

Using extensive training expertise, TMG assists their clients to develop a living partnership between an active committed board and a talented and committed staff. Utilizing ongoing training techniques and case studies, success is achieved on an ongoing basis.

Training of Fundamentals of Fundraising:

This specialty of TMG has been led by Joan Mason, CFRE, with a charismatic and effective style of training that has become known through the country and internationally. Using the basic principals that teach adults in numerous ways, she and her staff conduct trainings for numerous clients as well as speak at national and international conferences.

Developing Corporate Relationships:

The Mason Group has worked extensively with non profits to develop "cause related marketing" relationships with corporations. Using the cause/mission of the charity and combining it with the marketing of the corporation can create win/win relationships on both sides. By respecting the corporations need to make money, sell products and make their employees happy, TMG has developed numerous successful sponsorship or gift income relationships throughout the country and internationally.

Prospect Research:

Prospect research for non profits is certainly not a new concept; however, as the reality that individuals give the vast majority of funding nationally and that combined with the competition for funding, TMG has attained this expertise for all sources from the private sector. Research into which corporation or foundation would receive a request for funds from a non profit is a critical element for success. Individuals who are currently donors can be cultivated for larger financial involvement only if the organization knows their interests, their capacity and their linkage to the charity. All of these components of research are available from public sources and TMG trains the organizational clients they work for how to be successful with their research.