Comprehensive Campaign Counsel Service
Location:
Michigan, USA
Posted on:
Dec 10, 2025
Deadline:
Jan 7, 2026
Summary:
Seeking a partner to provide comprehensive campaign counsel for a major university fundraising campaign in Michigan.
(1) Vendor needs to provide comprehensive campaign counsel service. • Preparing to launch the public phase of its third comprehensive fundraising campaign. • This campaign aims to inspire significant philanthropic support; elevate the university’s visibility; and galvanize current and prospective donors, alumni, faculty, staff, students, and community partners around a shared vision for the university’s future. • Creative and strategic partner with deep experience in higher education and/or mission-driven comprehensive fundraising campaigns to provide comprehensive campaign counsel, helping to ensure outcomes that inspire philanthropy and engagement across diverse audiences • Assess and enhance the current principal and transformational gift pipeline. • Advise on prospect strategy, prospect management, and resource alignment for top–level donors. • Provide strategies for sustaining campaign momentum and donor confidence during university leadership changes, including a presidential transition. • Support leadership and campaign volunteers in deepening principal gift engagement. • Recommend structures and rationales for making compelling cases for additional institutional investments and necessary one–time campaign costs. • Provide models and recommendations for coordinated campaign planning across schools, colleges, other fund–seeking units, and administrative divisions, as well as for streamlined collaboration across units. • Suggest policies, practices, and governance approaches that enable flexible and effective campaign management and adequate engagement of key University stakeholders. (2) All the questions must be submitted no later than December 19, 2025 (3) Pre–bid meeting will be held on December 16, 2025
