Podcasts by How I Built My Fundraising Consultancy - the stories behind the people driving results in the nonprofit sector

Michael Rubin (HIBMFC-0043) from 2019-04-23T09:00

Michael Rubin is the Principal and Founder at Michael D. Rubin & Associates. Michael has been running his consultancy since 2002 and has built his business to support 4 other consultants, which ...

Scott Koskoski (HIBMFC-0042) from 2019-04-09T09:00

Scott Koskoski is a Senior Performance Mentor at BrightDot. BrightDot focuses on coaching fundraisers to reach their goals. Scott got into fundraising because of his experience getting a scholar...

Mary Cahalane (HIBMFC-0041) from 2019-03-26T09:00

Mary Cahalane is the Principal at Hands-On Fundraising. Her consultancy focuses on copywriting and teaching nonprofits a donor first approach to fundraising.

Learn more about Hands-On Fun...

Hannah Zollman (HIBMFC-0040) from 2019-03-12T09:00

Hannah Zollman is the Founder and Principal at Mission Driven Fundraising. Her focus is on helping mission-driven organizations build their fundraising departments to be self-sufficient and succ...

Amy Varga (HIBMFC-0039) from 2019-02-26T10:00

Amy Varga is the president of the Varga Group. Learn about her background as a fundraiser and a university professor to future fundraisers. We also dive into how she determined what services to ...

Elise Saltzberg (HIBMFC-0038) from 2019-01-29T10:00

Elise Saltzberg is the owner of Saltzberg Consulting and is an expert at grants and shares the ins and outs of running a business focused on researching and writing grants in this episode.

Dan Shephard (HIBMFC-0037) from 2019-01-08T10:00

Dan Shephard (the Frontline Fundraiser) is the owner of the Shephard Group. He focuses on teaching fundraisers how to have a conversation with donors about charitable gift planning.

Learn...

Arlene Cogen (HIBMFC-0036) from 2018-12-11T10:00

Arlene Cogen is a Philanthropic Leadership Consultant, Author, Speaker, Trainer, and Coach. She works primarily with professional advisors, nonprofits and their clients to build deeper relations...

Joe Tumolo (HIBMFC-0035) from 2018-11-27T10:00

Joe Tumolo is the CEO of Gift Planning Development. He is an expert at building relationships and helping nonprofits focus on a donor-centric approach.

Learn more about Joe Tumolo at www....

Sherry Quam Taylor (HIBMFC-0034) from 2018-11-13T10:00

Sherry Quam Taylor is the Founder and President of QuamTaylor, a fundraising consulting group based in the Chicago area. Sherry’s company really strives to work with nonprofits on a donor-centri...

Penelope Burk (HIBMFC-0033) from 2018-10-30T09:00

Learn not only about starting and running a successful fundraising consultancy, but also some fascinating insights from one of the industry’s leading researchers on what it’s like to be the dono...

T.J. McGovern (HIBMFC-0032) from 2018-10-16T09:00

T.J. McGovern is the president of the McGovern Consulting Group. He was formerly the Development Manager at Fairbanks Hospital and Development Director at Ivy Tech Community College. T.J. focuse...

Cathy R. Sheffield (HIBMFC-0031) from 2018-10-02T09:00

Cathy R. Sheffield is a fundraising executive with over 20 years experience, specializing in major gifts and gift planning. She founded ThinkGiving in June of 2017. Cathy has experience in healt...

Jay Frost (HIBMFC-0030) from 2018-09-11T09:00

Jay Frost has been a fundraising consultant and speaker for the past 28 years and shares a wealth of knowledge in this episode.

Learn more about Jay at www.FrostOnFundraising.com. Learn m...

Emma Kieran (HIBMFC-0029) from 2018-08-28T09:00

Emma Kieran is the principal of Pilot Peak Consulting, which she started in June of 2014. Learn how her background as both a teacher and a fundraiser has influenced what she set out to do with P...

Sarah Jackson (HIBMFC-0028) from 2018-08-14T09:00

Sarah Jackson is the president of Sarah J Consulting found at SarahJConsulting.com. SJC has been in operation since January of 2012 and is based in the Boston area. Prior to starting her own bus...

Claire Axelrad (HIBMFC-0027) from 2018-07-31T09:00

Claire Axelrad, principal at Clairification, comes from a background of almost 30 years in the nonprofit fundraising world before starting up her business in 2009. You may know her by the name o...

Matthew Dubins (HIBMFC-0026) from 2018-07-17T09:00

Matthew Dubins is the founder of Donor Science. He is a developer and programmer who helps nonprofits through his data science consultancy.

Learn more about Donor Science at www.donorscie...

Sam Laprade (HIBMFC-0025) from 2018-07-03T13:17:23

Sam Laprade of Gryphon Fundraising is the host of the radio show “An Hour to Give” and has been working in the nonprofit sector for the past 15 years. She recently transitioned to becoming a ful...

Andrew Olsen (HIBMFC-0024) from 2018-06-19T09:00

Andrew Olsen is Senior Vice President at Newport One, a direct response fundraising agency headquartered in Duxbury, MA. Prior he was an independent fundraising consultant and is the author of R...

Sheila Dwyer Schwartz (HIBMFC-0023) from 2018-06-05T09:00

Sheila Dwyer Schwartz is the founder and principal of Dwyer Philanthropy. She started her consultancy because she wanted to work for mid-level nonprofits.

Her experience was in working fo...

Missy Gale (HIBMFC-0022) from 2018-05-22T09:00

Missy Gale is president of M. Gale & Associates. She has been running her business since 2009 and builds on her experience in the healthcare sector and her marketing and advertising education. M...

Nadine Gabai-Botero (HIBMFC-0021) from 2018-05-08T09:00

Nadine Gabai-Botero has been the principal of Focus Fundraising for the past 9 years. Her background is in fundraising for arts organizations, but as you’ll hear in the interview she has expande...

Jeff Brooks (HIBMFC-0020) from 2018-04-24T09:00

Jeff Brooks is a fundraising consultant and Fundraisingologist at Moceanic. His expertise is in writing and you’ll learn some great tips in this episode on how writing for fundraising is differe...

Jim Langley (HIBMFC-0019) from 2018-04-10T09:00

Jim Langley is president of Langley Innovations, which he started 8 years ago. He has extensive experience in the higher education sector.

You can find more information about Langley Inno...

Michael Rosen (HIBMFC-0018) from 2018-03-27T09:00

Michael Rosen is president of ML Innovations, which he started 18 years ago. Learn how he built his business and how his journalism background has impacted his consulta...

Andrea Kihlstedt (HIBMFC-0017) from 2018-03-13T09:00

Andrea Kihlstedt has been running Capital Campaign Masters for the past 4 years and prior worked with Gail Perry and other consultants at a few different consultancies. She has over 30 years of ...

Amy Eisenstein (HIBMFC-0016) from 2018-02-27T10:00

Amy started her business in August 2008 and prior was director of development for a few different nonprofits. Amy Eisenstein has done a fantastic job creating a personal brand that fundraisers r...

Kelley McGeehan (HIBMFC-0015) from 2018-02-13T10:00

Kelley McGeehan is the founder of McGeehan Research. Kelley brings an interesting perspective to the show as her consultancy focuses on prospect research. We dive into some of the details in run...

Richard Perry (HIBMFC-0014) from 2018-01-30T10:00

Today on the show is Richard Perry, co-founder of the Veritus Group. Richard has been running the Veritus Group since 2005 and prior ran the Domain Group for 15 years, which also helped non-prof...

Steven Screen (HIBMFC-0013) from 2018-01-16T10:00

Today on the show is Steven Screen, co-founder of the Better Fundraising Company and co-host of the Fundraising is Beautiful Podcast. The interview today is loaded full of great tips including w...

Lori Kranczer (HIBMFC-0012) from 2018-01-02T10:00

Today on the show is Lori Kranczer, founder of Everyday Planned Giving. Lori brings an interesting perspective to the show as her consultancy is now only 5 months old. Her information should be ...

Greg Lassonde (HIBMFC-0011) from 2017-12-19T10:00

Today on the show is Greg Lassonde, Principle of Legacy Program Specialists.

Greg has been running his business for 11 years now and prior had extensive experience by working in a wide va...

Marcy Heim (HIBMFC-0010) from 2017-12-05T10:00

Today on the show is Marcy Heim, President and Founder of the Artful Asker. Marcy has been running her business for now over 12 years and prior had extensive experience by working as the directo...

Larry Raff (HIBMFC-0009) from 2017-11-21T10:00

Today on the show is Larry Raff, President of Copley Raff, Incorporated.
 Larry has extensive experience helping healthcare related organizations raising funds and led a 200 million dollar campa...

Gail Perry (HIBMFC-0008) from 2017-11-07T10:00

Today on the show is Gail Perry, Founder of Fired Up Fundraising found at www.firedupfundraising.com.
 Gail has built a successful business driven by following her passions from consulting, to s...

Katherine DeFoyd (HIBMFC-0007) from 2017-10-24T09:00

Today on the show is Katherine DeFoyd, Founding Partner of Growth for Good found at www.growthforgood.com.
 Katherine has built a successful consultancy that focuses on New York City and New Jer...

Kathy Swayze (HIBMFC-0006) from 2017-10-10T09:00

Today on the show is Kathy Swayze, President and Creative Director of Impact Communications found at www.impactdc.com.
 Kathy has built a successful consultancy that now includes a strong staff ...

Phyllis Freedman (HIBMFC-0005) from 2017-09-26T09:00

Today on the show is Phyllis Freedman, President and Founder of Smart Giving found at www.smart-giving.com. Phyllis has run a successful consultancy for the past 17 years and will be retiring at...

Julie Carter (HIBMFC-0004) from 2017-09-12T09:00

Today on the show is Julie Carter, President of Carter Consulting Group.
 Julie has built a successful consultancy through helping non-profits focus in on major gifts and likes to remind each no...

Diane Remin (HIBMFC-0003) from 2017-08-29T09:00

Today on the show is Diane Remin, Founder and President of MajorDonors.com.

Diane has built a strong consultancy through teaching non-profits to tell compelling stories to potential donor...

Tom Ahern (HIBMFC-0002) from 2017-08-15T09:00

Today on the show is Tom Ahern. You’ll learn the importance of developing a strong content marketing strategy, how to determine your hourly rate, and much more. For more information about Tom Ah...

David A. Mersky (HIBMFC-0001) from 2017-08-01T09:00

Today on the show is David A. Mersky, Founder and Managing Director of Mersky, Jaffe & Associates.


Hear from a fundraising consultant with 25 plus years of experience. Learn how to gain ...