We enjoy helping the community grow by helping non-profit organizations succeed. Vicariously, we help feed the homeless, prevent school violence, educate immigrants and refugees, treat the mentally ill, shelter battered women, provide after school care, provide quality education to youth, protect the environment, rescue animals, advance the arts, redevelop communities, find cures for diseases, and so much more. Stephen Forbus, founder of ProFundraisers Inc., saw a need among small and mid-sized non-profits who needed the help of a professional development director, but could not afford to hire an experienced development officer full time. ProFundraisers Inc. is the out-source development department that non-profits need to succeed in raising more money.

At ProFundraisers, we want non-profit organizations to succeed in meeting the needs of the community, raising donor support that will expand their services, training volunteers in effective fundraising principles, and marketing themselves to their clients and their donors. We are enriching the community through the organizations we serve.

Philosophy

The primary philosophy that we hold is that healthy donors are not born over night, they are nurtured and cultivated through being made partners with the organization and through education about the needs of the organization. More than eighty percent of all charitable giving comes from individual donors, and another seven percent comes from bequests, or those same donors after they have died. Only eleven percent of charitable giving comes from foundations, grants and government funding. That means that successful fundraising over the long haul depends on actively and successfully cultivating individuals from impulsive givers, to habitual givers, to thoughtful and generous partners.