Implementation of a sound organizational strategy is key to achieving a program of sustainable and productive philanthropy.
Mather Leigh links your organizational strategy to tailored fundraising programs that promote sustained growth over time.
Established in Montreal in 2006, Mather Leigh is a fundraising consultancy with more than 80 combined years of experience in best practices fundraising. For organizations involved in fundraising, our expertise empowers schools, colleges, universities and non-profit organizations to raise more money, cultivate alumni and donor communities, develop sound institutional strategic plans and build international partnerships. For funding organizations, we help you to better define your charitable giving programs and to fund donations with impact.
Mather Leigh strengthens the capacity of your organization or institution. We mentor and train your development staff and volunteers to ensure achieve your goals and sustain performance.
Feature Service: Farhana Mather is a leader in Canada on higher education internationalization and partnership building. See our higher education services page for more information.
Tailored to Your Organization's Needs
Mather Leigh develops consulting solutions that are tailored to your organization’s needs. We can deliver any one (or a combination) of the following services:
- Program “Tune Up”: Mather Leigh assesses current strengths and makes recommendations for enhanced performance.
- Steady State Fundraising Strategy and Campaign Planning: Do you want to strengthen an annual fund or launch a capital campaign? Mather Leigh can develop specific program plans, conduct a feasibility study or help you plan and execute a capital campaign.
- Strategic Planning: Success begins in the planning stages. Mather Leigh translates your organization’s vision and mission into realistic goal-driven plans. We provide you with the framework for a strategic plan, and help you gather data in support of your goals, identify benchmark peers and select key performance indicators for measuring your progress against goals.
- Strategy Implementation & Staff Development: Once the strategic plan has been developed, Mather Leigh provides ongoing counsel, leadership and mentoring to your staff.
- Senior Team Augmentation & Remote Staff Management: If finding good management staff to provide fundraising, international or strategy leadership has proven difficult, Mather Leigh can provide on-site and remote management of staff to ensure success.
- Full Time Fundraising or International Relations Staff Alternative: Recruiting a full-time senior fundraiser or competing for the best fundraising staff is often challenging and expensive. As a significantly lower cost alternative, Mather Leigh can provide senior fundraising or international relations expertise and leadership to your organization.
- Targeted Solutions: When you are facing specific challenges that range from solving data management and functionality problems to developing an international relations strategy or recruiting and training strategies, Mather Leigh works with you to provide solutions.