Work with blueprint

Blueprint Advancement partners with non-profit arts and culture organizations to maximize long-term contributed revenue growth. We craft a tailored strategy built on the cornerstones of quantifying data, optimizing the patron lifecycle, fostering a culture of giving, and achieving defined goals.

We are an agile, affordable solution to take your fundraising campaigns to the next level. Our partnerships are designed to tackle your entire development plan, or target a specific need (acquisition fundraising, integrating planned giving, or increasing giving from your current donors, among others).

Fundraising consulting

Our fundraising consulting is built on data analysis and mining, to strategically segment your patron base. Additionally, we're skilled fundraisers who construct training programs for your development and customer contact teams focused on fundraising best practices.

data and intelligence

Blueprint cleans, mines and strategizes on donor and patron databases in preparation of successful fundraising campaigns.

Phone campaigns

Blueprint provides years of experience and success on phone-based outreach and solicitation campaigns

Data-based annual fund strategy & fundraising training

Blueprint's fundraising consulting focuses on starting or growing your annual fund or membership campaigns. We clean, segment, and analyze your patron and donor database with the objective of administering a 5 year annual development plan. Our partnerships targets these areas:

• Building your donor base

• Growing your current donors

• Donor benefit programs

• Developing quantified projections and contact plans through our patron lifecycle program

• Training programs for your development and customer contact staff on fundraising skills and best practices, to develop a culture of giving in your organization.

Preparation and knowledge

Management guru Peter Drucker has often been quoted saying that “you can't manage what you can't measure.” Drucker's quote implies that you can't know success until you can measure that success. This starts with knowing your donor and patron database. Often, knowing this data takes considerable time and effort. Blueprint cleanses, mines and strategizes on donor and patron databases in preparation of successful fundraising campaigns. Preparing and knowing your data is key to a successful campaign.

Data Hygiene

We can de-dupe and merge/purge (donor and buyer data) to create complete household records, painting a complete picture of your patrons.

Phone and Address Correction

We use the most current databases available to verify and/or append phone numbers and National Change of Address information.

Data Mining

We know what relationships and trends to look for when evaluating your donor and patron data. These trends and relationships will guide your fundraising strategy.

Segmentation

Divide and conquer is the key. Not all donors and patrons are created alike, and our segmentation strategy will create a more personalized, patron-centric approach to your fundraising.

Tele-Fundraising & Membership Calling Services

Blueprint employs a team of professional fundraisers and salespeople with years of experience and success on phone-based outreach and solicitation campaigns. When an organization needs to reach deeper segments of their donor/patron pool, or to attain specific donor and/or dollar outcomes, we help by leveraging our team of advocates.

Tele-fundraising & professional fundraisers

• Renewal donors – We bring renewing donors back year after year and attain 15-30%+ annual increases

• Leadership giving – We are experienced in managing relationships with consistent donors who give at substantial levels

• Lapsed donors – Bringing back donors lapsed up to 5 years

• Acquisition – Developing a consistent pipeline of new donors

• Planned Giving – Cultivating prospects from your organization to take their engagement to the next level.

• Prospect Profiles based on wealth screening, affinity & relationship evaluation, demographic factors and other methodologies

• Other areas of focus:

  • Workplace Giving

  • Capital or Designated Giving campaigns

  • Sponsorship Promotion & Corporate Fundraising

fundraising Agent Portfolios

All renewing donors are assigned to one fundraising agent for the year, and in years to come. Fundraising is a skill optimized with relationships. No longer do you have to limit relationship-based fundraising to your major donors. Going forward, that same agent will be responsible for all points of contact going forward, including:

• First fundraising appeal for the year

• Reapproaches

• Second Appeal gifts for the year

• Thank you calls/campaign, if you subscribe to these with us

  • Follow-up on bad credit cards and unpaid invoices

  • Check-ins and upgrades on recurring/sustaining gifts

  • Subscription renewals, if you subscribe to these with us

Subscription Sales Renewals

As part of our Portfolio program, we can insert into the patron lifecycle calling program an option to renew a patron’s subscription for the next season. This can be done during or after your subscription renewal timeline and mailers. Subscription campaign renewal calling will be part of the patron’s lifecycle plan with Blueprint.

Recurring/Sustaining Gifts

Recurring or sustaining giving programs can be an option or primary tool of your fundraising or membership campaigns. Blueprint's management of recurring or sustaining donors include the original solicitation, renewal upon payment expiration, and upgrade asks.

Pledge fulfillment

Blueprint can manage pledge fulfillment services

• Daily, weekly and monthly reporting

• Invoicing & Collections - Initial invoice, Monthly follow-up and Collection calls to all donors whose pledges are not paid

• E-Mail or paper invoicing with your organization’s image per patron preference

Membership Campaigns

For membership based organizations, Blueprint can jump-start your membership plans with these campaigns:

• Renewal and lapsed membership recovery

• New member acquisition

• Current member upgrade

• Current member to donor fundraising

Blueprint can coordinate membership renewal/acquisition with a fundraising strategy to expand the participation of your membership base.

Thank-you campaigns

Thank-you campaigns build upon our relationship strategy and help cultivate a patron life-cycle relationship between your organization and your patrons & donors. These efforts have a quantifiable impact on response rates with future solicitations and are positively correlated with larger gifts and more substantial package purchases.

Reporting

All Fundraising and Membership campaigns orchestrated by Blueprint include the following reports:

•     Revenue and performance for your campaign

•     Pricing and cost structure

•     Campaign structure and timing

Lead matrixing and campaign plans

We develop a timeline and lead matrix to coordinate fundraising and marketing efforts.

This ensures that all work together to avoid overlap, maximize your revenue and reduce your costs.

Blueprint will ensure complete lead pool penetration and the ability to conduct multiple appeal strategies during the campaign.

Inbound Call Center Management

Blueprint can manage your inbound calls related to our relationships with your donors and patrons. We can setup the full cycle of your contact center.