Demont Associates provides philanthropic counsel and related services to not-for-profit organizations. The Demont approach is providing an attentive team of consulting professionals committed to volunteer-driven fund-raising and advancement programs. Our team approach to each assignment affords each client maximum expertise, optimum accountability, and prompt and reliable service. More than sixteen years of successful service to more than 165 not-for-profit organizations attests to our ability to provide service tailored specifically to the needs of our clients. In partnership with client personnel and volunteers, Demont Associates offers the following services:
- Periodic and intensive capital campaign counsel
- Pre-campaign planning/feasibility studies to determine both external levels of interest and support for organizational needs, and an optimum campaign goal where feasible
- Internal assessments of organizational fund-raising preparedness
- Strategic institutional development planning
- Board and volunteer training workshops
- Major donor awareness program design and implementation
- Media direction and production to advance organizational and philanthropic capacity
- Donor prospect research
- Electronic prospect screening
- Campaign office management and training
- Computerized management of campaigns, including cost-effective and manageable software support and training
- Post-campaign and program transition counsel
- Phonothon direction and counsel
- Periodic advancement counsel
- Planned giving counsel
As an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), and subscribing fully to their code of ethics, Demont’s fees are quoted in advance of service, and are not based on a percentage of funds raised or to be raised.