Comprehensive Campaign Counsel Services

The vendor required to provide comprehensive campaign counsel a creative and strategic partner with deep experience in higher education and mission driven comprehensive fundraising campaigns to provide comprehensive campaign counsel, helping to ensure outcomes that inspire philanthropy and engagement across diverse audiences.
- The university is preparing for the public phase of this campaign amidst a period of institutional transition, including a presidential leadership change, evolving budgetary and resource realities, and a heightened focus on cross-campus collaboration and principal gift strategy.
- The university seeks counsel that will:
1. Strengthen transformational and principal gift strategy and related pipeline development
•    Assess and enhance the current principal and transformational gift pipeline.
•    Advise on prospect strategy, prospect management, and resource alignment for top-level donors.
•    Support leadership and campaign volunteers in deepening principal gift engagement.
2. Guide campaign continuity through presidential transition
•    Provide strategies for sustaining campaign momentum and donor confidence during university leadership changes, including a presidential transition.
•    Advise on aligning new presidential priorities with existing campaign themes and goals.
•    Recommend communications and engagement strategies to reinforce stability and vision.
3. Evaluate resource investment and university budget allocations to support campaign success
•    Assess the adequacy of division budgetary resources in meeting campaign demands.
•    Benchmark current operations, general fund awards, and staffing investments against best practices for public research universities, particularly those that are in (or have recently embarked on) $1 billion+ comprehensive campaigns.
•    Recommend structures and rationales for making compelling cases for additional institutional investments and necessary one-time campaign costs.
4. Enhance cross-campus collaboration and nimble campaign execution
•    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 division units.
•    Identify opportunities to align evolving university priorities with philanthropic opportunities.
•    Suggest policies, practices, and governance approaches that enable flexible and effective campaign management and adequate engagement of key university stakeholders.

- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Options Virtual Pre-Proposal Conference Date: December 16, 2025
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: December 19, 2025