Turning Obstacles into Opportunities When our team defines the elements of a successful campaign, there are three key factors always at the top: committed volunteers, highly effective staff and connected donors. Over the course of our nearly four years working with the United Way of South Hampton Roads, beginning with a planning study and supporting… Read more »

The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge wanted to create a training series for nonprofit professionals and their board members. This progressive foundation had a big-picture vision for helping nonprofits in the community build their fundraising capacity and brought us in to conduct a training series…

Hampton Roads Community Foundation decided to launch a program called Building Excellence, which provided fundraising capacity-building grants to area organizations. The Curtis Group was selected to be the fundraising counsel for this program. For each nonprofit, we made detailed recommendations on their development programs and needs, then worked to implement…