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Fractional fundraising gives your organization access to experienced fundraising leadership for a defined amount of time, without the commitment or cost of hiring a full-time senior fundraising executive.
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A fractional fundraising leader does more than offer recommendations from the outside. They step into the work alongside your team — helping shape strategy, strengthen systems, guide implementation, and build the internal capacity needed to sustain fundraising over time.
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For nonprofits that know fundraising needs to change but do not yet need, cannot support, or are not ready to hire a full-time development leader, fractional support can provide the experience and structure needed to move forward.
Does This Sound Familiar?
Your organization is growing, but fundraising still depends heavily on the Executive Director. Your development team is working hard, but everyone is responding to immediate needs instead of following a clear long-term strategy.
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You have ambitious fundraising goals, but the systems, staffing, or donor pipeline behind those goals are not strong enough yet. A senior fundraising leader recently left, and you need experienced support while deciding what comes next. You are preparing for a capital campaign, expanding major gifts, pursuing new revenue streams, or trying to move beyond grant-dependent fundraising — but your team needs someone who has done it before.
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Or maybe fundraising simply feels stuck.
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There are activities happening. Emails are going out. Grants are being submitted. Events are being planned. But it is difficult to answer a bigger question:​
Is all of this actually building a stronger fundraising program?
That is where fractional fundraising can help.
What Fractional Fundraising Can Look Like
Imagine a nonprofit that has grown significantly over the past few years. The Executive Director is still managing major donor relationships. A small development team is focused on grants and annual appeals. The board wants revenue to grow, but there is no shared fundraising strategy, donor pipeline, or clear understanding of who owns what.
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Hiring a full-time Chief Development Officer may not make sense yet.
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A fractional fundraising leader can step in to assess what is working, identify the biggest gaps, establish priorities, strengthen the fundraising strategy, coach the existing team, and help put the systems in place to support sustainable growth.
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Another organization may already have an experienced fundraising team but be preparing for its first major capital campaign.
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Rather than permanently expanding the leadership team, fractional support can bring campaign experience into the organization at the moment it is most needed — helping assess readiness, strengthen donor strategy, clarify roles, and guide the campaign from planning into implementation.
How Skipping Rock Strategies Helps
Skipping Rock Strategies brings experienced fundraising leadership directly into your organization — not simply to tell you what should change, but to help make that change happen.
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We work alongside your leadership, staff, and board to understand your current fundraising reality, identify the priorities that matter most, and build a practical path forward.
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The goal is a fundraising program that feels less reactive, more intentional, and better equipped to support your mission for the long term.