Consultant Salaries Sept 2024 | List_ shared

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1	Created by Johane Alexis-Phanor, Beyond Wordz, Fundraising & Communications Consultant, with help from Community Centric Fundraising (Sept 2024)
2	This list was created from REAL consulting positions across the country to help consultants better negotiate their prices
3	Organization/ Organization Type	Consultant Role	Description	Monthly Retainer	Hours/Week	Hourly Rate	Location	Additonal Notes
4	You don't have to add organization's name, you can add the type of work they do							anything else you want to add! (ie org budget size, hybrid, etc!)

5	Resurgens Impact Consulting	Grant consultant	Resurgens Impact Consulting is a grant consulting firm founded in 2015. We work with nonprofits to fuel direct services, capacity building, and systemic change through grant writing and grant research. We are based in Atlanta, Georgia but we serve nonprofits across the United States.	Varies	Varies	$115.00	Atlanta	We list our service packages and rates at https://resurgensimpact.com/grant-services/ in an effort to be transparent
6	Immigrants Rights	Media Consultant	Media Relations support to elevate Welcome Corps media outreach and brand visibility.	$7,500.00	10-15	$125-187.50	New York
7	Community Development	Fundraising Consultant	individual donor giving campaigns, communications/marketing	$5,000.00	20	$62.50	Seattle
8	STEM	Development & Communications Consultant	strategic fundraising plan, Cultivate and steward relationships with donors,Develop and execute donor marketing and communications efforts	$12,800-16,000	not listed		North Carolina
9	Mental Health	Development Consultant	Develop and implement fundraising strategies to harness existing relationships and identify and secure new individual donors, and partnerships with corporations, government entities, and institutional foundations.	$6,000.00	10	$150.00	California
10	Multiple Organizations	Grant Writing Consultant	federal grant writing	$6,000.00	not listed		Remote
11	Community/grassroots	Fundraising Consultant	corporate sponsorships, individual donor giving campaign	$4,500.00	10	$112.50	Boston
12	Community/grassroots	Fundraising Consultant	funder prospecting and cultivation, grant writing	$6,000.00	10	$150.00	Boston
13	Food Access/Policy	Development Consultant	fundraising strategy,donor cultivation and stewardship, Develop Fundraising Tools	$3,800.00	8-12	$79.17-118.75	California
14	Promoting access to education internationally	Grant Writing Consultant	Grant research and funder prospecting, cultivating and stewarding funder relationships, and foundation grant writing	$2,500.00	5	$125/hr	Seattle
15	Racial and gender justice	Development Consultant	Develop and implement a fundraising plan, cultivate and steward donor relationships, and foundation grant writing	$4,000.00	10	$100.00	California
16	Multiple organizations doing social change and advocacy around racial and gender justice	Grant Writing Consultant	Foundation Grant Writing	$3,000.00	5-10	$75-150	Remote
17	Youth development / college access org	Comms Consulting	Developed short-term communications strategy and all relevant donor comms for new program rollout.	$3,000.00			Remote	This is was project based. Breakdown is Total Project Fee (7500) / Months Worked (2.5)
18	A large abortion fund	Fundraising Consultant	Maintains grants calendar while prospecting for new grants, ad-hoc fundraising copy, strategy	$1,050.00	10 hours/mo	$105.00	Remote
19	Large urban city	Grantmaking consultant	Support a city grant program			$150.00	Remote	client is a city
20	Multiple organizations	Nonprofit consultant	Organizational development, grantwriting, capacity-building			$75-125	Remote	based on org's developmental stages and access to wealth/reliable funding (clients are grassroots nonprofits)
21	Large urban county	Grant assistance and capacity building consultant	Provide applicants to county grant programs with assistance on grant proposals; provide capacity-building services to county grantees			$175.00	Remote	client is a county
22	Press On	Fundraising Consultant	Write grants, prospecting, weekly meeting	$2,000.00	10 hours/week	$50.00	Remote	Budget size is $750k
23	Kimbilio	Administrative Consultant	Support admin needs		Per Project	$50.00	Remote	Budget size is $80k
24	GEM Trainers	Fundraising Consultant	Write grants, weekly meeting	Write grants, weekly meeting	N/A	N/A	Remote	Budget varies
25	Creating Freedom Movements	Fundraising Consultant	Write grants, weekly meeting, prospecting			$50.00	Remote	Budget $250k, fiscally sponsored
26	Feed Black Futures	Fundraising Consultant	Write grants, prospecting			$40.00	Remote	Budget $250k, fiscally sponsored
27	Friends of Writers	Adminstrative Consultant	Support admin needs			$34.00	Remote	Budget is $200k
28	Local Environmental Justice Org	Fundraising + Comms	Grassroots fundraising (email and direct mail), Blog posts, Press releases		~4	$110.00	Northeast
29	National Environmental Org	Email Fundraising	Strategy and composition for email fundraising		~6 as needed	$150.00	National
30	Seattle Art Museum	Facilitation and Strategic Planning	Planned and facilitated four workshops to help the organization develop a vision around interpretation		10-15 hours/month	$210.00	Seattle	$10,500 project budget, payments were made based on project milestones. 4 months from project kick-off to completion.
31	King County Play Equity Coalition	Facilitation and Strategic Planning	Facilitated a retreat, an organizational restructure process, and the development of a new governance structure		15-20 hours/month	$200.00	Seattle	Worked with the organization from October 2022 - February 2024 on three separate scopes of work. Across all scopes earned $26,7600.
32	Environmental justice	Federal & State grant writing	Focus on proposal strategy, regulations, proposal writing. Some project design.		20-50	$115.00	Based in Oregon, clients across the US.	I use a flat, project-based fee, so hourly amount is an estimate. I offer a 15% decolonizing discount to projects led by Indigenous groups that will restore land that was taken from them.
33	Local government	Community engagement	Plan and facilitate opportunities for community members to share their input with local government agencies			$140 - $215	Seattle	I work on many local government projects with the county and city, and I find it to be both values-aligned and well-paying. These projects tend to be longer-term and bigger overall budgets ($40K-$200K, with some including expenses to hire other vendors or compensate community members in addition to consulting fees) than my non-profit projects. I would say my 2024 income will be 20% non-profit projects and 80% government projects. The $140/hour rate is from my first ever project, all others are $200-215/hour.
34	Food Access/Policy	Grant Writing Consultant	Write grants, grant reports, and maintain a grants calendar	n/a	Varied seasonally	$155.00	Portland, Oregon	Org Budget: $600k
35	Advocacy and Training	Fundraising Consultant	Seasonal Campaign - strategy, content, delivery, reporting	$10,000.00	8	$286.00	National	Org Budget: $15M
36	Tech consulting	Strategy Consultant	Helps nonprofits and higher ed. with tech strategy services and tech implementations	N/A	40	$48.00	US and Canada
37			Average Monthly retainer	$4,596.43	Average Hourly Rate	$119.00
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