NONPROFIT STRATEGY & ADVISORY

Stronger Boards.
Smarter Fundraising.
More Mission.

You know what your organization can do. Let’s align the board, leadership, and fundraising to help you get there.

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01 / FIND YOUR STARTING POINT

Where are you feeling the friction?

The right engagement starts with the real challenge. Choose the one that sounds most like your organization.

  • Board Reset Intensive

    Typically 90 days

    Give your board and staff a shared understanding of priorities, roles, and accountability.

    • Align board and committee work with the mission

    • Clarify board and staff expectations

    • Strengthen governance and accountability

    • Facilitate strategic and fundraising conversations

    Let’s talk about your board

  • Fractional Development Advisor

    Typically 6–12 months

    Ongoing strategic advice for fundraising leaders, executives, and boards. Get a partner for setting priorities and developing a sustainable approach to revenue.

    This is an advisory engagement. Responsibilities and operational support are agreed with each organization.

    Let’s talk about fundraising leadership

  • Campaign Feasibility Study

    Typically 3–4 months

    Understand campaign readiness before making a major commitment. Clarify goals, listen to stakeholders, and identify a practical path forward.

    Let’s talk about campaign readiness

  • Donor Pipeline Diagnostic

    Review your CRM, donor segments, and cultivation gaps to identify where your fundraising system needs attention.

    Turn those findings into a 12-month revenue roadmap.

    Let’s talk about your donor pipeline

02 / THE APPROACH

Clarity before activity.

People before process.

Strong fundraising starts with sound leadership systems. The work connects governance, strategy, and revenue to the reality of your organization.

See the whole picture.

Understand the mission, the people, and the constraints behind the challenge.

Agree on what matters.

Clarify priorities, responsibilities, and what the organization is working toward.

Make the next move clear.

Turn the strategy into practical actions that leaders and boards can use.

MEET JEFF

Jeff Lewis

Founder & Principal
Strategic Advisory LLC

An outside perspective. A grounded partnership.

Nonprofit leaders carry a lot. Clear expectations and practical support can change how the work feels, and how it gets done.

Jeff’s work spans fundraising, leadership, board development, and operations. He partners with executives and boards to clarify governance, weigh competing priorities, and build more sustainable approaches to revenue.

His focus is straightforward: honest conversations, aligned leadership, and solutions that respect your mission, your people, and the moment you’re in.

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PRACTICAL ANSWERS FOR NONPROFIT LEADERS

Good questions.
Clear next steps.

Board engagement, fundraising leadership, and campaign readiness. Start with the question in front of you.

Put it into practice.

Explore Strategic Advisory’s board evaluation and onboarding tools.

Board Self-Evaluation (PDF) →

Full Board Evaluation (PDF) →

Onboarding Template (PDF) →

  • A nonprofit board can support fundraising by helping set priorities, making introductions, participating in donor stewardship, and agreeing on clear responsibilities with staff. A board evaluation is a useful starting point for identifying where expectations and participation need to be clearer. Strategic Advisory’s Board Reset Intensive addresses board and staff expectations, accountability, and facilitated fundraising conversations.We turn tangled problems into tidy solutions you can actually use.

  • A Board Reset Intensive helps a nonprofit align board and committee work with mission priorities, clarify board and staff expectations, and strengthen governance and accountability. It may be useful when roles are unclear or board engagement is inconsistent. Strategic Advisory’s published scope includes facilitated strategic and fundraising sessions. The typical engagement is 90 days; the organization and advisor agree on the final scope.

  • A fractional development advisor focuses on strategic guidance and coaching. A development director typically manages day-to-day fundraising work, although responsibilities vary by organization. Strategic Advisory’s published advisory offering includes monthly counsel for board and staff, donor prioritization, and cultivation and stewardship systems over 6–12 months. Do not assume the advisory engagement includes operational ownership; agree on who will execute outreach, manage staff, and maintain the fundraising calendar.

  • Consider a campaign feasibility study when leadership is weighing a major campaign and needs evidence about readiness before moving forward. Strategic Advisory’s published 3–4 month study clarifies campaign goals and timing, identifies stakeholders and prospects to include, uses confidential interviews, and provides a feasibility report and next steps. The study informs a decision; it does not guarantee a campaign result.

  • Strategic Advisory’s Donor Pipeline Diagnostic is a one-time engagement that reviews CRM data and donor segmentation, identifies cultivation gaps, and produces an actionable 12-month revenue roadmap. It is intended to help leaders see where donor relationships need attention and choose practical next steps. The roadmap is a planning deliverable, not a promise of a particular fundraising result.

NONPROFIT OPPORTUNITIES

Good work.
A meaningful next chapter.

Explore roles with organizations doing work that matters. Read the responsibilities, compensation, and application details right here.

These descriptions appear in Strategic Advisory’s published resources. Whether either organization is still accepting applications has not been confirmed.

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Descriptions checked November 7, 2026

Arts & cultureAvailability unconfirmed

Everyman Theatre

Assistant Managing Director

Partner with the Managing Director to move institutional priorities forward, connect departments, and strengthen relationships across the theatre’s community.

  • Baltimore, Maryland
  • Full-time · Exempt
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The role

A strategic and operational partnership role spanning executive support, cross-departmental initiatives, board relations, and external engagement. The description presents it as a leadership pathway, with scope developing according to performance and organizational needs.

What you would work on

  • Support the Managing Director with analysis, planning, and follow-through on organizational priorities.
  • Coordinate cross-departmental initiatives and relationships with donors, patrons, community partners, and civic leaders.
  • Serve as a board liaison and maintain meeting materials, records, and action items.
  • Support executive scheduling, briefings, communications, patron advancement, and financial forecasting.

What the description asks for

  • Strategic thinking and the ability to lead projects independently.
  • Strong relationship-building, communication, organization, discretion, and judgment.
  • A commitment to the arts and community, with an adaptable, proactive approach.

The description does not specify a degree requirement or minimum years of experience.

Benefits & working arrangement

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with full premium and deductible coverage, as stated in the description.
  • 401(k) with a 3% employer match after six months of service.
  • Paid vacation, holiday, sick, and personal leave; performance and class discounts.

40 hours Monday–Friday, with selected evening and weekend hours as needed. Onsite work allows periodic remote / hybrid flexibility.

Link to this role Source description, not a confirmed vacancy
Youth developmentAvailability unconfirmed

TCP Youth Empowerment

Sr. Development Manager

Director of Development Track

Build fundraising infrastructure, cultivate donor and foundation relationships, and help a youth-focused nonprofit carry out its growth strategy.

  • Linthicum, Maryland
  • Full-time
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The role

The Complete Player (TCP) Charity, also described as TCP Youth Empowerment, is seeking its first full-time development hire in the published description. The role covers hands-on fundraising and donor engagement, with an intended development-director pathway tied to fundraising growth and organizational needs.

What you would work on

  • Work with the CEO on fundraising strategy, donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
  • Manage foundation relationships and the grant lifecycle, from research and proposals through reporting and renewals.
  • Develop prospect portfolios and support board fundraising engagement.
  • Coordinate fundraising reporting, CRM practices, sponsorships, campaigns, and donor-facing events.

What the description asks for

  • 5–8 years preferred; exceptional candidates with demonstrated fundraising or business-development success will be considered.
  • A record of building relationships that generate revenue, sponsorship, investment, or charitable support.
  • Strong communication, CRM experience, and event / grassroots campaign coordination.
  • A creative, strategic, self-directed approach in a growing organization.

The title follows the linked job description: “Sr. Development Manager (Director of Development Track).”

Benefits & working arrangement

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 160 total hours of PTO and vacation.
  • Annual professional development.

Hybrid, with an office at 613 Global Way, Linthicum, MD 21090. Reports to the Chief Executive Officer.

Link to this role Source description, not a confirmed vacancy

Explore here. Apply directly.

Descriptions are summarized here, with links to the original PDFs for full terms. The hiring organization owns the application process. No applicant details are collected on this page.

YOUR NEXT CHAPTER STARTS WITH A CONVERSATION

What’s keeping your mission from moving?

Bring the challenge. Let’s find a useful place to start.