JF Smith Group, Inc.

The J.F. Smith Group is a fundraising consulting firm specializing in strategic development for academic institutions, athletic departments and nonprofits. With a data-driven and personalized approach, we leverage fundraising solutions to drive transformational growth for our clients. Our expertise spans feasibility studies, major gift fundraising, and capital campaign management, ensuring our clients achieve sustainable and measurable success. When organizations want to conduct a capital campaign, there is a temporary need for high-powered expertise. They need to establish campaign infrastructure, evaluate potential, and implement a strategic plan. Our clients come to us for temporary expertise. They understand that our kind of expertise would be very difficult and expensive to get from full-time, permanent employees. Furthermore, their needs are temporary: the crunch is at the time of the planning and solicitation phases of the campaign. Our clients come to us – at least in part – because we reduce their sense of risk in the management and politics of conducting a campaign.