Nonprofit Consulting

Nonprofit Marketing and Fundraising Consulting

Reliant Creative is a digital agency for Christian nonprofits, churches and ministries. After years of building marketing and fundraising for teams like yours, we offer nonprofit consulting for leadership teams that already have media or marketing staff and want outside priorities, review and direction. When you want that guidance every month, a fractional chief marketing officer (CMO) can lead the team you already have.

Each consulting engagement has an agreed scope and timeline, set before we begin.

Our consulting covers marketing and fundraising only. We do not consult on board governance, human resources (HR), accounting or legal matters.

What you can expect

✓ An outside review of what your team produces and how it is working.
✓ Priorities your leadership and staff agree on.
✓ Clear direction your team can act on.
✓ Permission to stop work that isn’t helping.
✓ Ongoing guidance from a fractional CMO, if you want it.

When to call us

Where Our Nonprofit Consulting Helps

Leadership teams with their own media or marketing staff usually reach out when one of these sounds familiar.

Your Message Is Unclear

Your staff describe the ministry in different ways, and supporters aren’t sure what you do.

Giving Has Stalled

Your team keeps sending appeals, and donor growth has slowed without a clear reason.

Marketing and Fundraising Are Disconnected

Your marketing and development teams plan separately, and donors hear mixed messages.

Major Donors Feel Out of Reach

Your leaders want stronger relationships with the people able to give the largest gifts.

A Big Decision Is Coming

You’re weighing a campaign, a new direction or a leadership change and want an outside review before your team commits.

Busy Without Clear Priorities

Your staff are busy producing content, and no one is sure which work moves the mission forward.
How it works

How a Consulting Engagement Works

Each project has a set scope and timeline, agreed in writing before we start.

01

Fit

A first conversation with your leadership to understand what your team is working on and decide whether consulting is the right step.

02

Review

We talk with your leaders and your media or marketing staff and review the work your team produces today to find what is slowing you down.

03

Priorities

Your leadership gets clear priorities and written direction, with owners and a timeline your staff can work from.

04

Handoff or Ongoing Guidance

Your team takes the direction forward on its own, or a fractional CMO from Reliant keeps guiding your staff each month.

Outside our focus

What We Don't Do

If you’re comparing nonprofit consulting firms, many also help with board development, HR, finance and legal questions. Those are outside our work, and a nonprofit management consultant will serve you better there. Our consulting covers marketing and fundraising for ministries that already have staff doing that work.

Ways to work with us

From Consulting to Ongoing Guidance

Consulting gives your leadership outside direction for a set period. Here is how it connects to ongoing help:

Nonprofit Consulting FAQ

A nonprofit consultant brings outside experience to a specific problem. Reliant Creative’s consulting draws on years of marketing and fundraising work as a digital agency. We review what your media or marketing team is doing, help your leadership set priorities and give your staff clear direction.

Marketing and fundraising consulting for churches and Christian nonprofits that already have media or marketing staff. We review your message, your marketing priorities and your donor communication, and we help your marketing and development teams work from one plan.

Our clients are churches, ministries and Christian nonprofits. We know how these organizations make decisions and how their donors give.

We help with the marketing and fundraising parts of a strategic plan. For board governance, a nonprofit management consultant is a better fit.

A consulting engagement gives your leadership an outside review and written direction over a set period. A fractional CMO keeps guiding your existing staff every month. Many clients start with consulting and move to fractional CMO services once priorities are set.

Get Clear Direction for Your Team

Tell us what your team is working on and where your marketing or fundraising feels stuck. We’ll tell you whether consulting makes sense and what it would cover.

Free, with no obligation to sign.