SERVICES

EXECUTIVE SERVICES

The most valuable asset to any development operation is its human capital. The professionals within your fundraising program represent innumerable hours of training on your business practices, years of painstakingly built relationships with donors, and decades of institutional memory. For these reasons and more, the decision to recruit a new executive into your ranks is of the utmost importance. It represents an investment of time and money that can pay substantial dividends when successful and can be incredibly costly and time consuming when not.

Paradigm understands what is at stake when searching for your next development executive, and it matters that your search yields the best possible results. Paradigm goes beyond what is simply on the page by taking a deep dive into the hard skills of candidates as well as their fit for your organization’s culture, values, and principals. Paradigm works closely with you to ensure that your organizational profile matches the profile of the candidates.

SKILL DEVELOPMENT

Paradigm holds strongly to the belief in lifelong learning. Pursuit of knowledge promotes our personal development and advances our professional skills as development officers. Across the industry, non-profit institutions have identified professional development as a priority for their teams. Making this investment in your most valuable asset is an important decision and one that Paradigm does not take lightly.

Paradigm works in close partnership with your fundraising leadership to identify the specific training needs you wish addressed. We go a step further by actively engaging in a strategic discussion designed to identify areas of training opportunity that can advance your team’s efficiency and effectiveness as fundraising practitioners.

COACHING AND COUNSEL

Paradigm understands that leadership is more than just goal setting and assignment delegation. Leadership defines culture, sets vision, and inspires a team to strive toward a common purpose. From vice presidents to team managers, the job of a leader can be daunting and for new leaders virtually enigmatic. Paradigm offers leadership coaching in the field of development that is grounded in a set of core principals developed through years of practical experience.

Paradigm is ready to assist your organization’s leaders. From seasoned vice presidents who desire a strategic partner to collaborate on complex ideas to new managers who simply want to make sound supervisory decisions, Paradigm offers thoughtful counsel that is personalized to your team’s specific needs and reinforced by true best practices of the development industry.