SERVING TO ADVANCE YOUR MISSION

With our expertise, commitment, and data-driven approaches, we aim to enable organizations and individuals to reach their full potential, driving meaningful impact and fostering lasting change in the nonprofit sector.

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to empower nonprofit executives and board members to achieve their strategic goals. By developing tailored solutions in strategic planning, revenue acceleration, donor engagement, and leadership development, we help drive your organization's growth and impact. Together, we can create positive change in your community and beyond with the following services:

Strategic Planning and Growth
Funding Planning and Development
Feasibility Studies
Capital Campaigns
Board Development and Management
Leadership Development
Grant Research and Writing
Affiliate Optimization

About Me

John W. Short

Leader of nonprofit funding development
Over 30 years of sales and consulting experience
Spearheaded multi-million-dollar projects
Drove $100M+ global services business

With a rewarding career spanning over three decades, I have accumulated extensive expertise in sales, business development, and consulting. Today, as the Principal and Owner of Mission Partners LLC, I'm committed to utilizing my wealth of experience to empower nonprofit organizations in achieving their missions and creating lasting social impact.

“John helped me create the proper track for a fundraising project and also helped me stay on that track. The end result was a powerful event that netted 3x our goal! He helped me identify the right audience for the room and helped clarify the right message that clearly engaged donors with our mission. We even had strong participation from those who couldn’t make it to the event but still engaged in the project. Fail to plan, plan to fail. John helped me create a plan that worked for us!"

Al Norby, Executive Director at Love INC, Carver County

Services

Expertise. Insight. Integrity.

Strategic Planning and Growth

Strategic Planning Workshops: Collaborate with our experts to develop a strategic plan that aligns with your organization's mission and objectives. Our workshops facilitate defining your vision, mission, and organizational values along with strategic imperatives with specific goals for sustainable growth.
Market Research and Feasibility Studies: Gain valuable insights into your market or project's feasibility. Our research and feasibility studies provide data-driven recommendations to guide your decision-making process and set the stage for successful initiatives.
Grant Research and Proposals: Conduct a search for grant opportunities from various foundations, government agencies, and private donors. Develop grant templates and proposals.

Leadership and Board Development: Empower your team with leadership development programs that nurture skills, communication, and collaboration. We also address board recruitment, roles and responsibilities, and engagement with key initiatives.

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Funding Planning and Development

Annual Fundraising Strategies: Maximize your fundraising potential with tailored strategies. Our experts help you craft compelling appeals, diversify revenue streams, and implement donor stewardship practices for sustainable funding.
Fundraising Trends Analysis: Understand your fundraising landscape better with data analysis. We examine your fundraising trends to identify areas of improvement and develop data-backed strategies for enhanced performance.
Capital Campaign Management: Launch and execute successful capital campaigns with our support. We provide end-to-end campaign management, from initial planning and donor cultivation to achieving your fundraising goals.
Planned/Transformational Giving: Develop and implement planned giving and transformational giving programs to secure future donations and large gifts.

Services

Expertise. Insight. Ingenuity.

Revenue Growth and Engagement

Donor Trends and Segmentation: Segment prospective donors into categories based on their level of affinity and capacity for tailoring outreach efforts.
Creating Your Story: Help you tell your organization's story effectively, creating emotional connections that drive support and engagement.
Revenue Acceleration: Design a 30-60-90 day engagement plan that outlines the performance metrics and activities required to connect with, educate, and build relationships with potential donors to accelerate revenue growth.
Donor Engagement and Retention Support: Work in partnership with staff, board members and/or volunteers to engage donors for fundraising events, Giving Tuesday, year-end giving, and build retention programs.

Affiliate Optimization and Training

Strategic and Programmatic Initiatives: Help networks develop a vision and plan to implement and replicate effective programs across the network.
Value Driven Shared Services: Identify how you can better serve and support affiliates/sites. This includes developing a plan to deliver the most important services and resources that sites/affiliates need to be successful.
Improve Affiliate Impact and Leadership: Help affiliates gain clarity on their strategy and build capacity through our strategic planning, fundraising training and donor development programs

Retainer Services

Elevate your nonprofit's impact with our Retainer Services, dedicated to ongoing donor engagement and revenue growth. We work along side your team offering a dynamic suite of services designed to augment your fundraising efforts and foster lasting connections with your supporters.

Proud Partner of Creating Solutions

Mark C. Germano, Owner Creating Solutions

"Together we make a difference"

Raised over $700,000,000 during his 40+ year career
35,000 successful philanthropic gift solicitations
69 countries and Clients from all 50 U.S. states
Instructor for the University of Notre Dame
Over 250 not-for-profit consulting clients
Extensive not-for-profit Board and volunteer training
Led over 100 organizations through strategic planning