kbb strategy offers five integrated practice areas, each designed to address a different stage of fundraising maturity. Most engagements combine two or three. Every engagement begins with a candid strategy call to determine the right scope, scale, and shape for your organization.
Equip your development team to fundraise like the top tier. We train frontline officers, mid-level managers, and DODs in the disciplines that separate great development shops from average ones — and we do it in your context, with your prospects, on your timeline.
kbb training is not a workshop. It’s an apprenticeship in plain sight. We sit alongside your team for twelve to twenty-four weeks, coaching live donor conversations, debriefing in real time, and progressively transferring the skills that compound into long-term fundraising performance.
You’re in a campaign that’s stuck. The pipeline isn’t moving. The board is anxious. The DOD is exhausted. You suspect there’s a way to break through — you just don’t have the perspective from inside the operation to see what it is.
Campaign scaling is the work of unlocking a campaign’s full potential. We diagnose the bottleneck (it’s rarely what the team thinks it is), rebuild the pipeline architecture, and accelerate the team into closing mode. Most clients see pipeline velocity double within ninety days.
You’re ready to launch a comprehensive campaign — capital, endowment, or strategic — and the stakes are too high to get it wrong. kbb strategy designs, launches, and executes the full campaign with you. From feasibility study through public-phase close, we build it together.
This is the most complete engagement we offer. We embed alongside your team and leadership for the full campaign arc, doing the work side-by-side. 96% of our campaign-development engagements close at or above goal. The other 4% close above their realistic goal — meaning the goal we recommended after diagnostic, not the original aspirational number.
The most valuable hour in your week is the one that makes you a measurably better leader. Executive coaching with kbb strategy is built for advancement vice presidents, directors of development, executive directors, and CEOs navigating high-stakes transitions — new role, new campaign, new organization, new chapter.
Katie personally coaches a small number of senior leaders each year. The work is direct, structured, and confidential. Coaching clients regularly describe the engagement as the single most consequential professional investment of their careers.
Some of the most important fundraising decisions are made outside the development office — in the boardroom, the executive suite, the strategic planning retreat. Strategic advisory is kbb’s practice for the conversations that shape your organization’s next decade.
We advise boards on governance and fundraising readiness; advise CEOs and presidents on advancement strategy and senior team architecture; and partner with strategic-planning processes to ensure development considerations sit at the heart of the institutional strategy — not as an afterthought.
— Let's Build What's Next —
Every engagement begins with a no-cost consultation. Share your goals, your context, and the outcomes that matter most. We'll listen carefully, ask the questions that surface the real story, and give you a candid read on the work ahead.