Major Gifts Accelerator

Improve your major gifts strategy and achieve better results through a high-impact program designed for development officers and nonprofit leadership.

Exceed Your Targets – Year After Year

Top performing organizations bring a high level of strategy, discipline, and accountability to their major gifts work. If you’re ready to learn a new approach to securing contributions from your most important donors, the Major Gifts Accelerator is for you.


A unique combination of prospect strategy and team coaching, this program is designed to help your team meet immediate targets while mastering a sustainable approach to major gifts.

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The Major Gifts Accelerator is designed to help you acheive maximum impact. The benefits of this program include:

  • Top-level strategic support from a seasoned fundraising executive who is approachable, authentic, and affordable
  • Hit immediate targets while learning a proven, sustainable methodology for securing major gifts
  • Designed for cross-departmental teams, from senior leadership to front-line fundraising teams
  • Ongoing support keeps your team focused despite competing demands and provides a sounding board for addressing issues

This unique program combines prospect strategy with a proven coaching methodology to give your leadership team and development officers the hands-on experience needed to achieve success with your most important prospects. Here’s how it works:


  1. The MOST™ Philanthropy Assessment: We assess your current strengths and weaknesses and ensure that key components are in place to guarantee success.
  2. Development of Major Donor Strategy: Next, we work with your team to identify your best prospects and develop strategies to move them from their current level of engagement toward a major gift for your organization.
  3. Ongoing Accelerator Sessions: With the strategy in place, Philanthropy Innovators' founder Karen S. Cochran, CFRE regularly meets with the team to verify progress, troubleshoot issues, and provide ongoing support.

The Major Gifts Accelerator gives you direct access to Philanthropy Innovators' founder Karen S. Cochran's 30+ years of frontline fundraising expertise and the leadership strategies of a certified Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered coach. This combination of experience and coaching ensures your team receives the support needed to achieve its goals.


Your team will gain clarity on their progress and the steps needed to meet their objectives. Instead of second-guessing, you’ll have a trusted mentor available for real-time guidance. Your team will build confidence, develop the skills to engage major gift donors effectively and maximize your organization’s impact on the communities you serve.



The MOST™ Philanthropy Model

Our approach is based on not only maximizing your immediate fundraising potential but also strengthening the connection between your institution and its community of supporters, paving the way for more engaged, inclusive, and impactful philanthropy that carries you into the future.  

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