Strategy, Messaging and Production Services for Nonprofit Organizations
MSP | Cultivate specializes in data-driven, customized direct-response programs that expand donorship, increase revenue and improve ROI. Our mission is to use the latest in technology, creative services, and production methods to help you accomplish your most fundamental goal: increasing your fundraising success. We offer both strategic and tactical solutions, blending data with messaging and imagery, to create communications that are more relevant and personal, that carry a higher impact with donors and prospects.
Who We Are
MSP | Cultivate’s consulting, production and data-support services are all part of a company-owned enterprise. Our team of professionals represents years of fundraising expertise, including campaign strategy, copywriting, graphic design, digital, direct mail, production, and fulfillment experience—as well as the understanding of newer cross-media strategies and tactics and execution skills they require. We are proud to work with nonprofit organizations across the board and across the country—from health care systems to academic and higher education institutions to grassroots and social service agencies.
What We Do: Our Services
Fundraising Strategy
Maximizing your achievements while bolstering your efforts
Strategic Assessments
Brand Strategy
Communications Calendars
Donor Acquisition Programs
Donor Renewal Campaigns
Grateful Patient Programs
Editorial Services
Analytics: From Predictive Modeling Through Response
To target the right prospects, with the right message, at the right moment.
Identify Best Prospects
Segmentation Strategies
Personalize Communications
Increase Major Gifts
Improve Response Rates
Reduce Outreach Expense
Increase ROI
Editorial & Graphic Design
Copy that compels and visuals that intrigue
Translate Content Into Words
and ImageryCampaign Theme Development
Stakeholder Interviews
Appeal Writing
Acknowledgement Letters
Stewardship Letters
Graphic Design Services
Direct Mail & Production Services
So that everything is both timely and on time.
In House Mailing Services
Mail Piece Design
Data Driven Personalized Execution
Implement Segmentation Strategies
Postal Optimization
Proven Direct Mail Packages
eCampaign Management
Copy that compels and visuals that intrigue
Increase Participation
Increase Gift Size
Improve Retention
Mid Donor Strategies
Stewardship and Acknowledgement
Donor Recognition
Digital & Cross-media Services
To reach them–no matter how they communicate.
Integrate Direct Mail Appeals
Content for Digital Communications
Drive Donations Online
Increase Click-through Rates
USPS Informed Delivery
Meet the MSP | Cultivate Team
Our team of professionals is distinctly qualified to address your challenges, offer solutions, navigate the world of integrated media communications—and implement campaigns on your behalf. From digital marketing experts to database gurus to creative artists—even veteran fund-raising specialists—we can talk your talk, read between the lines, and respond with options that fit your needs. As an extension of your in-house team, we make the process seamless, simple, and successful. Meet our team: a smart, talented group of experts with a whimsical edge.
Chip Stine
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MSP | Cultivate intends to be a trusted resource, helping our clients solve their most critical issues—doing it better, quicker, and more creatively by using a combination of experience and tradition, blended with the latest in new media and technology.
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Steve Moody
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It would be hard to find someone who knows more about what makes data tick—and how to use it effectively—than Steve. He loves the nitty-gritty of analytics as much as the “art” of applying those insights to this new world of inbound and outbound communications.
“ Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay!”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nils Morgan
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At the convergence of traditional, “multi-touch,” “cross-channel,” and “multi-channel” solutions to increase your ROI, you will always find Nils multi-tasking. Oh—and ask him about mermaids…
“ It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Karen Shecter
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Working in higher education has its challenges and Karen has been excelling for over 20 years. Having gained intimate knowledge from handling clients’ day to day needs, Karen provides much more than executional skills, but serves as a key strategic consultant and partner.
“Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in democracy. You vote in elections once a year, but when you volunteer, you vote every day about the kind of community you want to live in.”
– Marjorie Moore
Hilary Shapiro
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Hilary’s name comes up when the going gets tough and clients need hard-hitting fund-raising strategy, new engagement ideas, and creative word-smithing to drive home their message.
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Karl Maruyama
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Karl’s motto is, “I believe that design, when practiced responsibly, has the potential to better the human condition and thus be a force for good.” No truer words were ever spoken—from our inspired and inspiring graphics expert.
“Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service”
– Steve Jobs
Meet our Clients
Securely deliver your donor endowment reports online with ODDER. No complicated portals to maintain or new processes to adopt. Share password-protected reports paired with personalized videos to surprise and delight donors.
A modern approach
We never offer cookie cutter solutions but provide a personal touch with a strategy that fits the needs and aspirations of your organization.