Francie Nelson Associates offers specialized consulting services for non-profits of all budget sizes, focusing on smaller and mid-sized Minnesota organizations that seek growth and maturity as institutions.

We provide consulting services for:

• Fundraising, including informal feasibility (a specialty), hand tailored leadership gift strategies, and assessing institutional preparation and readiness.
• Board development, to assess and enhance board membership and involvement.
• Patron, board, and staff relationships, designed to clarify, strengthen, and deepen communications between and among these groups.
• Written materials, from bullet points to key messages and from presentation outlines to case statements.
• Basic advocacy and public relations strategies, to develop and enhance institutional visibility,increase attendance, and encourage public involvement.
• Institutional problem solving, from the perspective of experience and wisdom—from minor to major.

Organizations throughout Minnesota that seek a custom-tailored, affordable, informal, no-frills, productive, and useful consulting experience can contact Francie at:

FAN @ francienelson.com

About Francie

Frances A. (“Francie”) Nelson offers clients four decades of skilled and successful fundraising and non-profit governance experience, all home grown in Minnesota. Fundraising programs and campaigns she’s managed have produced nearly a half billion dollars in community, state, federal, and national support. An active volunteer, she understands all aspects of board leadership and management.

She has many interests, but chief among them is English Springer Spaniels and she is internationally known as a breed scholar and educator. She is the first US citizen ever invited to judge the breed in its country of origin (England) and is approved to judge in the US and the UK.

Her Springer, “Felon,” accompanies her on client visits as often as possible and charges no fee whatsoever.

Contact us at:
FAN @ francienelson.com