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Over the past twenty years, Joe Garecht has worked with hundreds of organizations to dramatically increase their fundraising, build strong development organizations, and ensure that they have the money they need to carry out their mission.

For more than twenty years, Joe has been working with organizations to exponentially grow their fundraising. As the Executive Director of BLOCS (an $8 million / year non-profit), he implemented a scalable fundraising system that allowed the organization to radically increase its fundraising revenue (including launching a new endowment, doubling the revenue from the annual fundraising event to over half a million dollars, and implementing a new board structure that allowed for increased board participation in fundraising initiatives.)

As the Director of Development at The Philadelphia Children's Alliance, Joe Garecht built a professional development office from scratch, launching a successful program to increase government funding by 100%, negotiating the charity's first multi-year six-figure gift, and developing a major giving program that has resulted in drastically increased giving to the organization by individuals and corporations. As a fundraising consultant to both non-profit organizations and political campaigns, he has successfully built six- and seven-figure fundraising organizations from scratch, developed scalable fundraising operations and strategies for non-profits both large and small, solicited major gifts from individuals, companies, and foundations, and have helped multiple charities move from living "check to check" to being strong, thriving, sustainable organizations.

Joe Garecht's Fundraising Philosophy

While the strategies and tactics that will work for each non-profit are different, his underlying fundraising philosophy is simple:

  • Your mission matters. The work that you do matters.
  • You can not carry out your mission without the necessary funds.
  • Fundraising isn't evil, if it allows you to carry out your mission, it is an objective good.
  • If people are properly introduced to your organization - and properly cultivated - they will want to financially support your no-profit.
  • The job of your non-profit is to build new fundraising networks that will properly introduce your organization to new donors, and to build a scalable system for cultivating those donors and moving them to making a significant gift.

"Every non-profit, no matter how small or large, no matter how simple or how complicated, can dramatically improve their fundraising operation, often in as little as 6-12 months, simply by building new fundraising networks and focusing on using new strategies as part of a simple four-step fundraising process: Prospect, Cultivate, Ask, Steward
This process applies to every fundraising tactic, from events to grants, individual giving to capital campaigns."