Turn one-time gifts into lasting support.
We help small nonprofits build a simple, steady fundraising plan and donor relationships that hold, so support does not start from zero every year.
Fundraising that lives on luck and a year-end scramble.
Many small orgs lean on a few grants and a December push, with no plan for donors in between. People give once and never hear from you again.
A plan that brings support in all year.
A plan, not a scramble
A year-round rhythm of appeals and touchpoints, mapped out in advance.
Donors who stay
Stewardship that turns a first gift into a second and a third.
More than grants
Room to grow individual giving and sponsorships, not just grant cycles.
Messages that move people
Appeals that connect the gift to the impact, in plain, warm language.
What we handle for you.
- A simple annual fundraising plan
- Donor communications: appeals, thank-yous, updates
- A year-end or spring campaign
- Sponsorship outreach basics
- Donor list and CRM basics
- A short monthly check-in
Hearthside turns gifts into a cycle, not an event.
An illustrative case study. The sample deliverables it describes are real and open from the cards below.
Hearthside Health & Housing: transitional units, clinic nights, and a donor list that only heard from them in December.
One year-end letter, no unit of impact, and thank-yous that went out whenever someone remembered. Donors gave once and drifted.
A gift cycle with a concrete unit: the $75 first-week kit. A spring appeal with a numbered goal, a thank-you that itemizes what the gift bought and asks for nothing, and a 48-hour thank-you rule. The appeal and thank-you samples below are the pair in action.
Illustratively: the appeal sets a goal of 60 kits and reports against it in public; every gift is thanked inside two days; the December letter stops being the only touch. Retention, not just revenue, becomes the score the board sees.
The real part: A funder's eye, from years evaluating funding requests, shapes how these asks are built.
A look at the work we produce.
Click any card to preview a full sample.
A spring appeal that ties a $75 gift to one family's first week home, with one clear goal.
View the sampleA warm thank-you that shows the donor exactly what their gift did.
View the sampleThree sponsorship levels and what a local business gets at each.
View the sampleReady to steady your funding?
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