On-Site Consulting Service
Hillary Lyons Associates provides a comprehensive approach to implementing and sustaining a fund development program at health care organizations. On-site resident service at our client institutions provides and opportunity to work specifically on program and institutional priorities. Seminar programs enable our clients - staff and volunteers - to interact with each other and the Hillary Lyons Associates staff in various locations.
On-site service provides:
- Assistance in recruitment of key volunteer leadership
- Training and support for development staff
- Orientation programs for volunteers and staff
- Guidance in identification and research of individual, corporate, and foundation prospects
- Volunteer and staff planning retreats
- Development of an annual schedule of activities and objectives
- Assistance in establishing project and financial goals
- Quarterly evaluation of progress toward goals
- Provision of techniques and specific fund development programs for health care organizations
- Organizational expertise to develop and train the development council
ADVANTAGES OF PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT
To the Chief Executive Officer:
- Access to community leaders on a continuing, planned basis
- Validation and support of Administration's plans and priorities from a national standpoint
- Development becomes a key, ongoing profit center for the organization
- Willingness to work closely with community leaders is conveyed
- Active involvement in the community
To the Board of Trustees:
- Method to accomplish fund-raising, long range planning - fits fund-raising into the hospital's strategic plan
- Enhances image of the hospital through an active, planned program
- Mechanism to enhance community benefits
- Provides a continuity for the development program - less reliability on staff
- Expertise and experience with a proven plan
- Source of future Board members
For the Development Staff:
- Elevates status in the community and the hospital organization
- Continuing education - Aspen Academy, Seminars, Forums
- Development department as an identifiable profit center
- Assistance in planning
- Expansion of base for smaller gifts - identification of new donors as part of the process
- Volunteer training through annual series of seminars
- Networking of client institutions
- Longevity of client relationships
- Establishment of major giving programs
- Development of planned giving programs - leaving a legacy to the institution
To your Volunteers:
- A proven program
- Training program for all volunteers
- Makes their time more meaningful and productive
- Opportunity for interaction with community leadership
- Sense of ownership - opportunity to develop an organization
- Opportunity to learn more about the hospital on a planned basis
