Services
We succeed when our clients win.
CIMA partners with organizations to launch, scale, deepen or expand their impact, measure outcomes, secure funding, and strengthen their infrastructure.
Institutional Fundraising
CIMA is a comprehensive solution for organizations’ institutional fundraising at any phase of growth. Some examples of our work include:
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Develop or refine cases for support, build landscape analyses, create growth models for increased or changing programs.
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Manage prospect identification, outreach, and cultivation to create or expand funding pipelines
Coach, support, and/or manage client capacity for all phases of effective relationship management with stakeholders
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Write letters of intent, talking points, introductory emails, and pitch decks
Develop full proposals, reports, and calendars for public and private institutional funders
Manage all deadlines, deliverables, and relationships using CIMA’s customized database and project management suite
Download the CDI Case Study.
Our work with CDI supported a tenfold increase in institutional funding.
Development Strategy and Structure
CIMA can support additional development needs, including individual donor strategy and implementation, development staffing, and more.
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Create major donor strategy, membership campaigns, individual donor and annual fund collateral
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Create comprehensive development strategy to cultivate contributed income from diversified sources,
Provide counsel, coaching, and recruitment strategy for optimal development structure
Coach staff in fundraising best practices
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Research, advise, and support the implementation of sustainable funding models that align with organizational strategy
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Assist in creating and managing a Board Development Committee
Develop and implement best practices in board fundraising, coaching board members as necessary
We contracted with CIMA at a critical point in our organization’s growth and expansion. Their ability to customize their scope of work to meet our needs has been instrumental in our success.”
Erika Viccellio
CEO, The Fountain Fund
Organization and Program Design
CIMA helps organizations restructure, expand, or revitalize their staff and programs. Some examples include:
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Revise or develop strategy through comprehensive interviews, research, and engagement
Develop or revise client's mission, vision, and model
Support client capacity to add or refine programs and initiatives
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Create organization expansion models and/or sustainable growth plans, coaching staff and leadership as necessary
Create collaborative programming models within an organization or with external partners
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Provide counsel and guide adjustments to staff and board structure
Create or support revision of organizational and program budgets
Advise on best practices for board governance and development
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Align mission, vision, and model with existing strategy and programmatic activities, ensuring they align with available funding
Create or revamp the client’s evaluation methods or theory of change
CIMA is a valuable partner and their team has become the most reliable and successful grants team we have assembled here. They are smart, agile, and ready for a challenge.”
Chief Advancement Officer
National Non-Profit
Technology Assessments & Solutions
At CIMA, we design and implement technology solutions that match your organization’s unique processes and needs.
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Faster, cheaper, and built to integrate with your existing tech stack and workflow: we're making tech solutions accessible by sharing low-code/no-code solutions with the nonprofit sector.
Full Technology Assessments.
Choose (and configure) the right CRM for you.
Design a custom solution that fits your program.
Connect your tools to avoid duplicating efforts.
Streamline internal operations.
Measure the impact of your programs.
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We are platform agnostic and choose the best software for our clients, but in general we use a configuration of the following tools:
Airtable - A flexible, powerful low-code database with built-in automations, connects to virtually anything, and is flexible enough to process heavy use-cases.
Notion - A jack-of-all-trades web-based workspace perfect for storing structured knowledge and building processes for collaboration.
Make / Zapier / N8N - Automation platforms that connect and process data from one software/tool to another
Softr / Bubble - A web-app builder to create customized portals, web pages, and web-based software applications.
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Data visualization and impact tracking - Create custom impact tracking tools to collect, measure, analyze, and visualize relevant data, making it available and usable for stakeholders
Customized process and project management systems - Design and implement workflows and project tracking systems to optimize operational efficiency and ensure consistency
Grant Management Systems - Custom nonprofit database solutions for tracking funding opportunities, managing application deadlines, and monitoring grant compliance requirements.
Hiring Management Platforms - Streamlined systems for recruitment, scheduling, communication, and impact tracking.
Nonprofit CRM Implementation - Complete donor and relationship management systems with automated communication workflows, donation tracking, and comprehensive reporting dashboards.
