Services

We succeed when our clients win.

CIMA partners with organizations to launch, scale, deepen or expand their impact, measure outcomes, secure funding, and strengthen their infrastructure.

Institutional Fundraising

CIMA is a comprehensive solution for organizations’ institutional fundraising at any phase of growth. Some examples of our work include: 

    • Develop or refine cases for support, build landscape analyses, create growth models for increased or changing programs.

    • Manage prospect identification, outreach, and cultivation to create or expand funding pipelines

    • Coach, support, and/or manage client capacity for all phases of effective relationship management with stakeholders

    • Write letters of intent, talking points, introductory emails, and pitch decks

    • Develop full proposals, reports, and calendars for public and private institutional funders

    • Manage all deadlines, deliverables, and relationships using CIMA’s customized database and project management suite

Download the CDI Case Study.

Our work with CDI supported a tenfold increase in institutional funding.

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Development Strategy and Structure

CIMA can support additional development needs, including individual donor strategy and implementation, development staffing, and more.

    • Create major donor strategy, membership campaigns, individual donor and annual fund collateral

    • Create comprehensive development strategy to cultivate contributed income from diversified sources, 

    • Provide counsel, coaching, and recruitment strategy for optimal development structure 

    • Coach staff in fundraising best practices

    • Research, advise, and support the implementation of sustainable funding models that align with organizational strategy  

    • Assist in creating and managing a Board Development Committee

    • Develop and implement best practices in board fundraising, coaching board members as necessary

We contracted with CIMA at a critical point in our organization’s growth and expansion. Their ability to customize their scope of work to meet our needs has been instrumental in our success.”

Erika Viccellio
CEO, The Fountain Fund

Organization and Program Design

CIMA helps organizations restructure, expand, or revitalize their staff and programs. Some examples include:

    • Revise or develop strategy through comprehensive interviews, research, and engagement  

    • Develop or revise client's mission, vision, and model

    • Support client capacity to add or refine programs and initiatives

    • Create organization expansion models and/or sustainable growth plans, coaching staff and leadership as necessary

    • Create collaborative programming models within an organization or with external partners

    • Provide counsel and guide adjustments to staff and board structure

    • Create or support revision of organizational and program budgets

    • Advise on best practices for board governance and development

    • Align mission, vision, and model with existing strategy and programmatic activities, ensuring they align with available funding 

    • Create or revamp the client’s evaluation methods or theory of change

CIMA is a valuable partner and their team has become the most reliable and successful grants team we have assembled here. They are smart, agile, and ready for a challenge.”

Chief Advancement Officer
National Non-Profit

Technology Assessments & Solutions

At CIMA, we design and implement technology solutions that match your organization’s unique processes and needs.

  • Faster, cheaper, and built to integrate with your existing tech stack and workflow: we're making tech solutions accessible by sharing low-code/no-code solutions with the nonprofit sector.

    • Full Technology Assessments.

    • Choose (and configure) the right CRM for you.

    • Design a custom solution that fits your program.

    • Connect your tools to avoid duplicating efforts.

    • Streamline internal operations.

    • Measure the impact of your programs.


  • We are platform agnostic and choose the best  software for our clients, but in general we use a configuration of the following tools:

    • Airtable  - A flexible, powerful low-code database with built-in automations, connects to virtually anything, and is flexible enough to process heavy use-cases.

    • Notion - A jack-of-all-trades web-based workspace perfect for storing structured knowledge and building processes for collaboration.

    • Make / Zapier / N8N - Automation platforms that connect and process data from one software/tool to another

    • Softr / Bubble - A web-app builder to create customized portals, web pages, and web-based software applications.

    • Data visualization and impact tracking - Create custom impact tracking tools to collect, measure, analyze, and visualize relevant data, making it available and usable for stakeholders

    • Customized process and project management systems - Design and implement workflows and project tracking systems to optimize operational efficiency and ensure consistency

      • Grant Management Systems - Custom nonprofit database solutions for tracking funding opportunities, managing application deadlines, and monitoring grant compliance requirements.

      • Hiring Management Platforms - Streamlined systems for recruitment, scheduling, communication, and impact tracking.

    Nonprofit CRM Implementation - Complete donor and relationship management systems with automated communication workflows, donation tracking, and comprehensive reporting dashboards.

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