Margaret Macleod​
​Independent Fundraising Consultant

Leveraging decades of experience in the nonprofit industry, Margaret Macleod can create, lead and support your organization’s fundraising and development program. Having served at every level of a nonprofit, from volunteer pancake flipper, door-to-door canvasser, and entry-level administrator, to program manager, development director, and on to executive director and board member, she understands and empathizes with all of a nonprofit’s challenges.  She gets how hard it can seem to keep a fundraising program fresh, inspired, and productive.

Margaret Macleod can boost your funds development program via:

• Major Gifts programs that are donor-centered to maximize philanthropic potential
• Cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and moves management practices that deepen long-term donor relationships
• Corporate Sponsorship programs that raise the public profile of both your donor’s and your own organization
• Events management and planning

• Foundation research & grant writing, framed to cover expenses of both your programs and operations
• Annual fund campaigns to engage prospects and call them to action
• New donor acquisition initiatives
• Membership, alumni, and/or volunteer communication & engagement
• Board engagement in advancement and fundraising activities

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Whether you’re starting from ground zero with an annual fund or major gifts program, or you need to breathe new life into a lagging campaign; when your board needs new motivation to make solicitations; when you can’t get to researching relevant grant-makers and writing proposals in-house; when you are analyzing your data and creating useful reports; when you are managing your organization’s killer event; and when you are ready to increase the raised revenue for your organization:

​​Macleod brings a wealth of energy, enthusiasm
​and experience to the fundraising table.

mlmacleod16@gmail.com