Sage Mission: Sage Fundraising Solutions is a national team of experts providing skilled counsel and long range solutions to all types of nonprofit organizations. Our ultimate goal is to empower clients to accomplish extraordinary things for the communities they serve. As our mission states, Sage Fundraising Solutions was created to help nonprofit organizations achieve the extraordinary. Fulfilling this mission requires the efforts of a unique team of experts who bring a diverse set of skills, experience, and expertise to our clients. As a solutions driven company, Sage offers clients a comprehensive set of services aimed at overall organizational vitality. Our success is based on helping our clients work through many various complex issues involving everything from fundraising to marketing and organizational development. What Makes Sage Unique? I. Solutions Driven/ Uniquely Experienced: A consulting firm can not truly provide professional counsel to its clients without first having the resources necessary to effectively address each organization's unique situation. Many firms try to address every nonprofit's situation with the same cookie-cutter approach. They are limited by only having one solution to offer. This practice of treating every organization the same way benefits the consulting firm at the expense of the client. Sage Fundraising Solutions offers our clients one of the most diverse and experienced team of consultants in the country and focuses on meeting specific client needs by crafting creative and customized solutions that are truly right for them. II. Sage Labs/ Commitment to Innovation: We are committed to continually finding ways to enhance our offerings and make a more meaningful impact on the nonprofit community. We do this through continuous focus on ongoing research. These efforts result in providing our clients with the most cutting edge solutions available. III. Flexible Fees: Simply stated, we customize the fees we charge to the scope of the work required. This sounds like it should be standard practice in the industry, but many consulting firms do not operate under this principle. Some firms charge all clients the same flat monthly campaign fee regardless of the size of the project or the extent of the consulting work required. They determine a price that guarantees profitability on the largest campaigns and then apply it to all projects. Sage takes a different approach. Each Sage campaign is custom priced based on the scope of the project. IV. Proven Results/ Fundraising Guarantee: Nonprofit organizations are constantly trying to find ways to maximize limited resources. None of us can afford to make costly mistakes. The Sage Fundraising team applies proven tried and true methodology to each of our projects. With a unique mix of experience and objective research behind every service we offer, Sage is able to confidently tell our clients that they are receiving uniquely exceptional counsel regardless of the service offering we are providing. Still not sure? Ask us about our Fundraising Guarantee Program. It's very simple. If your organization outsources your fundraising campaign to us and we fail to achieve the recommended campaign goal within the recommended timeframe, Sage will continue working for you at no fee until the goal is met and/or you are completely satisfied. This policy is a reflection of the confidence we have in the effectiveness of the Sage approach and a way for us to join you in having "skin in the game." V. Expert Driven: Providing world-class nonprofit counsel in many diverse areas requires the expertise of a large team of consultants and partners. In our effort to constantly enhance the quality of our service offerings, we call on the experience of dozens of experts in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Through the efforts of this large team of employees, contractors, partners, advisors, consultants, and experts from many fields, we are able to stay on the cutting edge of nonprofit thought and practice. We feel that a high level of dedication to innovation is crucial to helping our clients get the most return for their limited dollars. This feature of our unique business model is crucial to providing superior service to our clients. Many other firms are limited solely to the experience and knowledge of employees within the company. In many cases, this is a small handful of people with similar backgrounds. With limited resources comes limited solutions, and ultimately, limited results. Nonprofit organizations can not risk their futures on these types of business models. The risk is simply too great.