Prospect Development Services
Heart in the Cloud offers ongoing or as-needed prospect research services. We adhere to the Ethics Statement put forth by the Association of Prospect Researchers for Advancement.
Below are the prospect development services we provide:
Build your fundraising pipeline
Heart in the Cloud identifies and curates potential funders based on an agreed-upon prospecting approach. This is helpful if you are entering a new market, looking to fund a specific new initiative or cause, building a major gifts pipeline or launching a fundraising campaign. We can also use your current wealth screening tool to identify and prioritize prospective major gift donors from your current donor pool.
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Identifying new prospects
Validating wealth screening results
Analysis of donor data to prioritize donors with greater revenue potential
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Launching new campaigns, programs or initiatives
Building a major gifts portfolio or major gifts pipeline
Entering a new market
Support your high-touch cultivation
Heart in the Cloud can partner with your frontline fundraisers on their high-touch cultivation efforts, often called major, principal or transformational gifts. We provide strategic prospect research, insights and tools to help you understand which donors to focus on, how to engage and ultimately how to make a successful solicitation.
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Targeted preliminary research on capacity to give
Detailed philanthropic briefings outlining philanthropic history
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Gift officers cultivating your top donors and prospects
Planning for upcoming transformational solicitations
Briefing senior leadership on potential or current donors
Understand your fundraising market
Heart in the Cloud provides landscape and peer-benchmarking analysis for a new geographic market, which includes key non-profits, key philanthropists, key industries and local conditions for fundraising.
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Peer benchmarking analysis for a local market
Funder landscape analysis for a local market
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Launching new initiatives in a new market
Preparing new incoming Executive Director, President or Head of Fundraising