Strategic Philanthropic Advisory to Empower Your Mission
Greg Lichti, CFRE, MSW, MDiv
Greg’s commitment to creating a better, more just world has fueled his dedication to building long-term, impactful partnerships between donors and charities.
With 30 years of expertise in major gifts, transformational giving, estate giving, and annual fundraising, Greg has worked with charities of all sizes. As Vice-President of the major giving group at the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation, he led a team and worked with senior leaders across the organization to advance their mission. His team successfully secured over $400 million in major gift support for Princess Margaret’s world-leading cancer research and capital projects.
Greg is personable, strategic, and results-oriented. He contributes leadership to the philanthropic sector, civic engagement, and community causes. Greg is a past board chair of the Canadian Association of Gift Planners (CAGP), a founding member of the CAGP Foundation board, and a Friend of CAGP. Greg is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) and has a Masters of Social Work and Masters of Divinity.
Every successful philanthropic connection he’s facilitated has helped advance meaningful causes and drive positive change.
Maximizing Impact Through Major Gifts
At the core of Greg’s approach is a focus on major gift fundraising. By honing in on securing the largest gifts possible for your organization, Greg helps charities maximize their fundraising potential. These significant, long-term commitments enable organizations to truly focus on advancing their mission, ensuring sustainability and ongoing support.
Greg excels at aligning donor interests and charitable opportunities, including partnering with charity program staff to advance philanthropy. His proven track record in securing large gifts and fostering enduring relationships has led to sustained, renewed support for the organizations he works with.
Services
Through conversation, Greg will partner with you to reach your strategic goals in ways that are customized to the particular culture and strengths of your organization.
ASSESSMENTS OF OPPORTUNITY
Non-profits today are facing unprecedented challenges. With rising demands for services and diminishing funding from traditional sources like government and grants, the competition for donor support is significant.
Many organizations struggle to find the right balance between events, mass marketing, and securing major gifts. In addition, sometimes internal structures and processes get in the way of success. Greg understands these challenges and works with non-profits to develop optimal strategies that focus on securing long-term support from donors, including major and planned giving donors
STRATEGIC ADVICE
Greg will work with you to assess your particular challenges and opportunities and help to develop a plan to secure increased, long-term support. This could include discussions related to goal setting, strategic planning, identifying funding priorities, refining current programs and developing new campaigns. Greg will help you to develop strategies for your organization to secure large gifts and foster sustained donor support, leading to increased and renewed support. This will include a particular focus on how to align donor interests with charitable opportunities, working closely with program staff to maximize fundraising outcomes.
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT THROUGH COACHING
Another critical hurdle for charities is recruiting and retaining leadership and staff skilled in fundraising, especially in major gifts. Greg offers expertise in helping organizations work with key staff and volunteers in building their ability to achieve fundraising goals.
Getting Started
Greg can guide your organization through the process, beginning with a comprehensive assessment of your best fundraising opportunities. From there, he’ll work alongside you and your team to craft and implement a strategic plan designed to maximize donor support and long-term impact.
Please be in touch. Through a complimentary discovery call, Greg would be delighted to have a conversation with you about how his expertise can support your organization to achieve its fundraising organizations.