Whether you're working on fundraising, culture-building, or changemaking, Tilly is there for you. Here are a few of her signature services, to get you thinking about where you'd like to prioritize growth and momentum. Let's grow together.
You're ready to start publishing an Impact Report each year. You have compelling impact data ready to be alchemized into an inspiring report. I'll create an overview to make sure we're all on the same page, develop compelling text and choose visuals using your source materials, and collaborate with your graphic designers. Impact reports come alive with donor and beneficiary stories. If you don't yet have those, I can interview people and weave their stories in, and bring in film and photography collaborators to capture compelling visual content.
You have topics that need compelling and succinct one-pagers, using your brand identity. I'll create a consistent messaging framework, develop compelling text using source materials that you provide, select visual elements, and collaborate with your graphic designers. My advice: get your graphic designers to create in Canva so that you and your team can update at minimal time and cost in the future.
Your website is your billboard, and then there's social media and the many platforms where your organization has a presence on the web, sometimes without you even knowing. Together, they represent your organization and will often be the difference between funding flowing your way, or going to another organization that tells a more compelling digital story. With everything on your plate, it's easy to let online content slide into being out of date, inaccurate, or not optimized to tell your strongest story to donors and funders. You'll receive a handbook with constructive feedback and actionable next steps about your entire digital reputation or your website specifically. At either scale, the review will provide strategic feedback that's immediately actionable, as well as providing a process for ongoing maintenance of your online footprint. You can make those optimizations in-house or have Tilly Hinton Consulting do the updates for you.
Donors and funders look to Candid when making decisions about where to target their support. I'll do research and ask targeted questions to build out your Candid profile so that it tells a compelling story about your mission, impact, and transparency. Bonus: if you qualify for gold status or higher, you'll likely receive a year of free Candid Premium access for prospect research.
You know you need one, but the day-to-day is so busy that it remains unwritten, or wildly out of date. Every fundraiser knows a Case for Support is essential. Enlist Tilly's research, analytical, and narrative expertise to create a compelling Case for Support for your organization.
You're writing your grants in-house, which is a smart move. But you wish you had a fresh set of eyes sometimes, to optimize quality and build momentum. With Tilly as your grants coach, you'll get incisive feedback, encouragement, and strategic insights drawn from twenty-five years spent writing and assessing award-winning grants, and teaching people how to win the grants game. Coaching includes a marked-up version in Google Docs or Microsoft Word, budget annotations, and a video call to either get you started or talk through the feedback.
Writing grants is a heavy lift for many organizations. Give your people some extra muscle with this package, which provides resources and coaching to take the friction out of grant writing. Powerup packages for prospecting, qualifying, tracking, and cultivation are also available — you decide where you most need a helping hand.
You already work with a direct mail company to create your campaigns, and you'd like to level up brand alignment, messaging, and donor strategy. I'll provide thought partnership on recipient strategy, messaging, design, donor experience, and campaign evaluation, including a marked-up review of the collateral package. A collateral package typically includes the letter, envelope, inserts, landing page, and thank-you letter.
One single document containing all your organization's key data points, narratives, and financials — ready to easily drop into grant application drafts, or train your AI system with. A Grants Glossary guarantees efficiency, accuracy, and trackability, freeing up your mind and time to submit high-quality applications with speed and ease.
You've invested in Instrumentl, now it's time to get your money's worth! This setup package will create effective search parameters so that Instrumentl can do the prospecting for you, import your previous grant history, and provide you with a cheat sheet for getting maximum value from Instrumentl.
Your team has infinite knowledge, wisdom, and skills. Tilly's facilitation approach will create a vibrant, intentional, and productive space that ensures every team member contributes to the task at hand, and has a good time doing so. Whether it's a quarterly planning meeting, compiling an organizational history, creating or updating a program, or learning how to do something new, a well-facilitated gathering of staff is game-changing.
Are you tired of not knowing where to find files, confusion from inconsistent data entry, struggling when a staff member is away, deciphering unclear processes, and questioning unreliable reports? The answer is a customized Department Handbook. Tilly will work with your team to understand how you work, document it clearly, and optimize your workflows so that you'll have clarity and consistency — and a living document that grows with your organization. Creating a manual like this is an efficiency and effectiveness game changer.
For decades, Tilly has been supporting organizations, institutions, and individuals to flourish. Whatever is getting in the way of your success, reach out for a conversation about how her unique skill set can support you to uplevel your impact.