Feasibility Studies

At Elevate IMS, we are as ambitious as you are about raising funds for your campaign. However, failing to perform thorough research to understand the feasibility of a fundraising campaign can be a recipe for failure. When we perform feasibility studies for Greek organizations, we personally meet with major donors and volunteers to explore the feasibility of your chapter’s fundraising goals.

We use a holistic approach to consider the history of the chapter, the level of alumni engagement, and various opportunities that may be on the table for the organization. Once the campaign is validated, we are able to move forward into a multi-step fundraising phase for the fraternity or sorority.

Capital Campaigns

Our fundraising efforts do not stop after a successful feasibility study. We stay involved through every phase of the fundraising process, and do the majority of the heavy lifting when it comes to meeting with alumni and donors to secure the needed funds.

Our services also include creating marketing material for your campaign, conducting membership surveys, training members for campaign leadership, and performing thorough wealth screening to determine donor’s capacities to give. We provide transparency and guidance throughout the process, and the overwhelming success of our prior campaigns is a testament of our work. When your campaign succeeds, we succeed.

General Communications

Our team has over 70 years of combined communication experience, and thrives at bringing past and present chapter members together. Building strong relations with a fraternity or sorority alumni base is not something that happens over night, but we aid chapters with many communication tools and strategies to help keep their alumni connected over time. Some of our general alumni communication services include:

Printed and Digital Newsletters
Postcards and Holiday Cards
Data and Gift Management
Lost Member Programs

Event Planning

Whether a chapter event is designed for game-planning and goal setting, leisure and fun events, or both, our services have been known to help bring people together for unforgettable times. If you have a chapter golf tournament coming up, community outreach event, or a destination alumni reunion, we are happy to help. Our staff can handle everything from selecting a site to organizing registration and providing on-site photography. Our event services include the following:

Marketing & Branding
Site Selection and Negotiation
Registration
On-Site Management

Alumni Websites

As technology progresses, your chapter needs to progress with it. As important as social media and digital newsletters can be to alumni communications, it is highly valuable to have a central resource where alumni can reconnect with their organization. We build sites for chapters that not only serve as a secure place for alumni to donate, but also help them access past member directories and stay up-to-date on current chapter events. Our organizational website services include the following:

Personal Information Management
Secure Donation Pages
Member Directories
Social Media Integration

Training and Education

The training and education services that we provide at Elevate IMS are a culmination of everything that we offer. We want to see your chapter thrive, and we have the knowledge and resources to help educate past and present chapter and board members on how they can improve their communication and fundraising tactics. Oftentimes, outsourcing training and education is the best way to ensure an accountable training process that can still provide highly relevant information for your chapter. Below are some of the services that we offer as part of our educational outreach.

Services

Feasibility Studies and Campaigns

Feasibility Studies

Capital Campaigns

Alumni Communications

General Communications

Event Planning

Alumni Websites

Training and Education

Facilitation

Conferences

Speakers