An essential component of our fundraising process or a standalone service to evaluate a specific project, NCDS' Economic Strategy Center helps you document and prove your value and impact to your community, elected officials, and business sectors that rely on the local economy.
Emotional appeals have their place in fundraising, but community and economic development initiatives must make a business case to secure capacity-level investments. Every NCDS campaign includes an economic impact analysis - using IMPLAN® economic modeling - that shows the impact of your efforts in business terms.
Jobs, consumer spending, bank deposits, business output, and tax revenues are some of the measures we use to make your case, and the reason we consistently secure six and seven-figure commitments from sources that have never given more than "token donations."
Every economic impact analysis is customized to your community, using IMPLAN® data at the city, county, or MSA level. And we project impacts based on your specific goals (jobs, target industries, wage rates, capital investment, etc.). The result is a powerful fundraising tool that will elevate the sights of your investors and transform a request for money into an opportunity to invest in shared growth and prosperity.
Our skillful use of this tool, along with robust prospect research, allows us to present a compelling ROI to most prospects, including some who may not even be members or current supporters. Let us show you why our clients - and their investors - love this approach, and how we might secure new or increased commitments from your banks, your hospitals, your car dealers, or your local government.
Every economic impact analysis is customized to your community, using IMPLAN® data at the city, county, or MSA level. And we project impacts based on your specific goals (jobs, target industries, wage rates, capital investment, etc.). The result is a powerful fundraising tool that will elevate the sights of your investors and transform a request for money into an opportunity to invest in shared growth and prosperity.
Our skillful use of this tool, along with robust prospect research, allows us to present a compelling ROI to most prospects, including some who may not even be members or current supporters. Let us show you why our clients - and their investors - love this approach, and how we might secure new or increased commitments from your banks, your hospitals, your car dealers, or your local government.
If you are considering embarking on a capital fundraising campaign, you may be wondering how much impact your new initiatives, and the new funding needed, will make on your community. We'll work with you to establish the right goals and metrics that are attainable and will deliver value to your investors. Even our clients in smaller communities can usually project enough impact to merit multi-million dollar funding campaigns.
NCDS' economic impact analysis is available to any organization - even those we don't raise money for. We can forecast the impact of a proposed community project, or prove the value of one that already exists. Ask us about our work for hospitals, higher education, research parks, and sports facilities. And we go beyond just a comprehensive economic analysis, helping you select and convey the data that will prove the project's (or your organization's) value to public and private stakeholders.
Contact us today for professional fundraising services that will change the way you pursue economic and community development.
"As the smaller chamber operating in the shadow of a larger, very aggressive one nearby, the North Myrtle Beach Chamber committed to take its game to the next level. You and the NCDS team not only drove the creation of a bold new multi-year strategy, you generated buy in and a huge boost in revenue. A great side benefit of launching and funding a new initiative was CDS' identification and engagement of a cadre of new leaders who had never really participated, much less invested at significant levels. Your methodology works, and your experience in hundreds of other communities paid off for us in a major way. So much so, we plan to kick off the next multi-year campaign this year. In my book, NCDS remains the 'gold standard" for community development fundraising."
Marc Jordan
CEO, President & CEO North Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce Convention & Visitors Bureau
