Agility + efficiency + technology = real fundraising results at a lower cost.
We are not the biggest fundraising consulting firm. We are simply the most innovative. Hudson Ferris finds avenues of support others miss, proves they work, then builds them into your operation and recruits the staff who will keep them running.
Find the avenue. Prove it works. Hand it over.
We don't place a consultant and leave. A team works your program until the revenue is real, then transitions it into your operation.
We find the avenue
Research and analysis that surfaces support hiding in your own orbit — and funders no one has asked yet.
We prove it works
A team runs the new channel alongside you until the revenue is real, not theoretical.
We hand it over
Then we transition it into your operation and, if you want, recruit the staff who own it next.
A team approach, built to hand off
We don't place a consultant and leave. A team works your program, opens new avenues of fundraising, proves they produce — then transitions them into your operation and recruits the staff who will keep running them.
Explore ServicesThe platform we built because no one else had
On-call expert support for a flat monthly fee. Send the board deck, the solicitation amount, the awkward email — get a considered answer within 48 hours. Margaret exists because our clients needed it and the market didn't offer it.
Meet MargaretWhat changed, and how.
A multi-year partnership took one founder-fundraiser to a national operation with a development team of three.
A six-month sprint on the College Access Center campaign.
Building the development engine inside one of the nation's largest domestic violence service providers.
Live-action solicitation training, second to none
Your people practice the solicitation on professional actors playing real donor archetypes, then get a written report on what to maintain, enhance and avoid. Nobody else runs it this way.
See How It Works“If I had to choose, I would seek a productive relationship over a pleasant one. The great thing about working with Hudson Ferris was that we got both.”