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 Imagery

  • Campaign 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

  • 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

Nils Morgan

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

How can we help you?
Let’s get started today!