Our president, Andrea Schwartz, worked as a fundraising professional for 20 years prior to joining her family business. She has experience with a variety of nonprofit organizations – large and small – helping start-ups establish themselves as well as working for well-known, already established organizations. Ms. Schwartz’s hands-on experience as a fundraiser and her keen insight into the day-to-day operations of nonprofits allows her to understand the special needs and requirements of nonprofits, generating successful results for our clients. We believe that this hands-on experience and vision sets ads apart from the competition.

How does ads help you protect and expand your donor base? The answer is not a simple one ... but we feel we offer some compelling suggestions and methodologies.

Strategic marketing drives your success and links your business strategy, helping to build fundraising and market share. Through a rapid, integrated process using market and competitive intelligence, ads will help define your market position and create your expanded identity. This identity will consider the individual contributions of talented and devoted leadership currently involved with your campaign, and reach out to spark the support of many new faces and families.

If you already have a direct response marketing campaign in place, together, we will carefully evaluate your recent appeals and member/donor base in general, donor satisfaction, and the entire range of communications with your donors. We will look at the strengths, weaknesses, and challenges of current program methodology.

We will then offer recommendations for expanding and enhancing your current donor/membership base, crafted to seamlessly integrate with your overall campaign.

If this is your first campaign, ads welcomes the opportunity to help you create a successful, comprehensive vision. Depending on your needs, our suggestions will incorporate image building, membership enhancement and expansion, planned giving, and strategic mailing list management and brokerage.

The goal: to broaden membership, generate enhanced donor support, and raise awareness of planned giving and dedication opportunities (if offered). Your direct mail campaign will be designed to appeal to your current constituency, and to reach out to a larger market of potential donors and supporters through acquisition.

Our services include (but are not limited to):

ads is not just an agency. We are a consortium of dedicated professionals who are committed to excellence and to your success. Our mission is to help you create an exciting, impact-based, results oriented direct mail campaign.

Thank you for taking the time to learn about the ads advantage. We look forward to hearing from and working with you!