Westby Associates, Inc.
Westby Associates, Inc. is a regional fund development firm having generated in excess of $350,000,000 for non-profit and public service organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest. Our development professionals use a customized team approach providing a combined 85+ years of experience in nonprofit management, fund development, marketing, governmental affairs, foundation relations, grant writing, planned giving, and public accounting. We partner with our clients to provide customized consultant/practitioner services, assisting them to think and act strategically.
1603 Officers Row
Vancouver, WA 98661-3851
Contact
Mike Westby
Direct line: (360) 750-3825
Fax: (360) 750-6855
Expertise
Boards/Governance
- Board coaching & training
- Board recruitment & development
- Board roles & responsibilities
- Board self-evaluation
Facilitation
- Board meetings/retreats
- Community meetings/hearings
Fundraising & Development
- Capital campaigns
- Development audits/assessments
- Development planning
- Donor recognition
- Endowment campaigns
- Event planning & management
- Feasibility studies
- Fund development/research
- Fundraising
- Grant writing
- Major gifts/planned giving
Planning & Organizational Development
- Emergency & continuity planning
- Executive advisor
- Mission & vision development
- Planning
- Program development
- Strategic planning
About Westby Associates, Inc.
Westby Associates, Inc. is a regional fund development firm that has generated in excess of $350,000,000 for organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest by specializing in strategic planning and communication, vision casting, capital campaign design and direction, governmental affairs, event management, foundation and grant support, and board development. We exist to provide consultant/practitioner services to nonprofits, assisting them to think and act strategically.
Raising money is not the challenge. Raising a vision is. If a mission defines who an organization is, a vision defines where it is going. We help organizations to create compass points for strategic fundraising by:
1) Developing and/or affirming clear and compelling mission and vision statements;
2) Identifying strategic priorities that are grounded in mission and aimed at a vision;
3) Broadening the ownership of the vision and its strategic priorities through market research and feasibility studies;
4) Identifying and qualifying prospects for their capacity and interest;
5) Designing appropriate cultivation and solicitation strategies;
6) Managing and monitoring success;
7) Participating as appropriate in strategic level cultivation and solicitation activities.
We use a customized team approach with our development professionals providing a combined 80+ years of experience in nonprofit management, fund development, marketing, governmental affairs, foundation relations, grant writing, planned giving, and public accounting.
At its essence, a strategic campaign comes down to three critical questions:
1) Do you have a story to tell?
2) People to tell it to?
3) An compelling way to tell it?
Westby Associates, Inc. makes sure your organization can answer these three questions with a resounding yes prior to any strategic campaign.
Raising money is not the challenge. Raising a vision is. If a mission defines who an organization is, a vision defines where it is going. We help organizations to create compass points for strategic fundraising by:
1) Developing and/or affirming clear and compelling mission and vision statements;
2) Identifying strategic priorities that are grounded in mission and aimed at a vision;
3) Broadening the ownership of the vision and its strategic priorities through market research and feasibility studies;
4) Identifying and qualifying prospects for their capacity and interest;
5) Designing appropriate cultivation and solicitation strategies;
6) Managing and monitoring success;
7) Participating as appropriate in strategic level cultivation and solicitation activities.
We use a customized team approach with our development professionals providing a combined 80+ years of experience in nonprofit management, fund development, marketing, governmental affairs, foundation relations, grant writing, planned giving, and public accounting.
At its essence, a strategic campaign comes down to three critical questions:
1) Do you have a story to tell?
2) People to tell it to?
3) An compelling way to tell it?
Westby Associates, Inc. makes sure your organization can answer these three questions with a resounding yes prior to any strategic campaign.