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Special Needs Foundation of Cayman

RPR has worked with the Special Needs Foundation in Grand Cayman on ...

Bar-Ilan University

Our work with Bar-Ilan University includes development of the case statement, fundraising ...

Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation

RPR is working with the Foundation to create a strategic plan, recruit ...

Sierra College Natural History Museum

RPR has developed the operating plan for the Natural History Museum and ...

What Our Clients Say

RPR Fundraising is so effective at in helping shape and prepare SMMEF for our new goals! Onward and upward!

– Linda Greenberg Gross, Executive Director, Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation - http://www.smmef.org/

We landed a $500K gift…focusing our board on individuals is working even faster than I expected.  Thank you for helping me to point them in the right direction!

– Ginger Ontiveros, Executive Director, Victor Valley College District Foundation - http://www.vvcfoundation.com/

My head is swimming with loads of new ideas and it is great to see the potential of what we can do. This has been quite an education!

– Keely Carroll, Director, Sierra College Natural History Museum - http://www.sierracollege.edu/museum

We tremendously value the sophistication and perspective that you bring to this project. We wouldn’t be where we are today without your assistance, and we look forward to continuing our work together.

– Howard Charish, Director, New York Office, American Friends of Bar-Ilan University - http://www.afbiu.org/

Big gifts can – and must – happen at the K-12 level too

I was honored to serve as a keynote speaker at the California Consortium of Education Foundations annual conference at Stanford University last month. Attendees included representatives from school districts and foundations all over Northern and Central California (a similar gathering for Southern California was held a week prior in Anaheim).

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Asian-American Philanthropy on The Rise

The New York Times recently ran an interesting piece on the growth in philanthropic giving among Asian-Americans in the United States. It’s certainly a trend that bears not only watching, but active understanding, among those in the fundraising profession. This newly-minted center of wealth is also becoming a center of power in philanthropic circles. The [...]

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Planting A Tree of Life in The Galilee

“It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will some day give shade to people he may never meet.” – Dr. David Trueblood  In fundraising, sometimes we get lucky. Sometimes we get to work on a fundraising campaign that means even more than the buildings it funds, the programs it [...]

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Simple, positive messages can be the most powerful

Late last year I wrote about the billboards, posters and other media currently being utilized in a campaign to generate support for public education in Los Angeles. I wasn’t a big fan of the campaign (which portends an “or else” doomsday scenario) as a means of garnering donor support, but it certainly is striking. This [...]

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The Philanthropist: A failed drama, but what about a reality show?

I’ve been seeing commercials for the new Kevin Bacon TV drama called The Following lately, which co-stars James Purefoy as an imprisoned serial killer who has somehow created a Manson-like flock of followers. What does this have to do with philanthropy? Well, very little…except that I couldn’t place where I remembered Purefoy from…until I looked [...]

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