Educational and Non-Profit Solutions

• Executive Search
• Institutional Advancement and Fundraising
• Training and Development
• Strategic Communications

Brown Schroeder & Associates, Inc. provides strategic, transformational consulting solutions that enable educational and non-profit institutions to become more effective in all aspects of resource development. Our expertise in multiple disciplines empowers your organization to fulfill the mission upon which it was founded.

Executive Search

Brown Schroeder & Associates can perform executive searches for many different types of educational and non-profit institutions – whether your need is urgent or part of a long-range advancement plan, permanent or a transitional leadership role.

We deliver targeted candidates whose experience, knowledge, leadership abilities, organizational effectiveness and communications skills meet your qualifications. Our solutions include position development and specification, candidate-pool development and recruitment, interviews and reference checks, and selection-process coordination.

Institutional Advancement and Fundraising

Brown Schroeder & Associates offers institutional advancement solutions – strategic development planning, board evaluation and development, stewardship and donor recognition programs – as well as many aspects of fundraising, including feasibility and planning, audits and reviews, and campaign readiness assessments.

A consultant who understands higher education and has succesfully led a campaign of size can assist in planning strategies for success as well as avoiding mistakes that can be costly in terms of time lost.  Moreover, knowledgeable counsel will inspire confidence among trustees and other volunteers that the enterprise is running well.

We also specialize in managing and navigating institutional advancement through periods of leadership transition and provide foundation management and research for private organizations and individuals who wish to bring new focus to their giving and elevate the impact of their philanthropic efforts.

Board Counsel

Our experience suggests that boards and nonprofit leadership benefit from a facilitated conversation when it comes to certain oversight issues, including financial sustainability, best practices in board governance, and the board's responsibilities for fundraising.

Many institutions find that their board members want to be more helpful in fundraising, but they don't have the tools they need to feel comfortable.  We work with boards to demystify the fundraising process and frame their responsibility for fundraising in terms they can happily embrace.

Training and Development

Brown Schroeder & Associates’ development experience at educational and non-profit institutions enables us to provide staff and volunteer training solutions, leadership coaching and enrichment, and resource allocation planning to help you to make better use of available resources in achieving near- and long-term goals.

These solutions represent a crucial intervention that is designed to sharpen knowledge, skills and professional competencies throughout your institution. We also organize retreats that enable board and staff members to focus on key issues like strategic planning, enhancing communication and collaboration, problem-solving and creative thinking.

Strategic Communications

Brown Schroeder & Associates offers a wide range of inbound and outbound communications solutions for educational and non-profit institutions. We can assist you in formulating persuasive communications strategies that articulate and promote your institution’s advancement, campaign and fundraising mission.

Among the solutions we offer are long-term communications plans with measurable objectives and goals, communications project proposals, campaign launch timelines and deliverables, message development, presentations aimed at key audiences, and identifying the most effective communications vehicles, such as web sites, events, email newsletters and print media.