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Capital & Nonprofit Services

We Help Your Organization Plan, Fund, Build, and Sustain — Without Overloading Your Team.

With more than $21 million secured, NDCS keeps your staff and board focused on mission and service rather than paperwork and logistics.

The work is for mission-driven institutions with big goals and limited staff capacity — small and mid-size YMCAs, community nonprofits, and international organizations upgrading facilities, expanding programs, securing funding, or launching new services.

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What We Do

Capital project management

Feasibility & early project definition
Strategic analysis of scope, cost ranges, risk, and delivery pathways to support informed executive and board decision-making before major commitments are made.
Capital planning & project management
Owner-side leadership for complex capital initiatives, supporting institutions from early concept through design, construction, and close-out. Work includes capital planning, governance frameworks, schedule and budget oversight, coordination across project teams, and aligning facilities, programs, and funding strategies with the organization's long-term mission and growth goals.
Design team, agency & municipal coordination
Coordination across the architects, engineers, environmental consultants, and contractors on one side and the public agencies, funders, elected officials, and municipal offices on the other — keeping the project aligned with institutional priorities, funding constraints, and community needs, and keeping approvals moving.
Board & executive project reporting
Decision-ready materials including capital summaries, timelines, risk assessments, and funding milestones to support effective governance and oversight.

Funding strategy & applications

Capital funding strategy & architecture
Development of coordinated capital stacks integrating public funding, philanthropy, institutional resources, and financing into a unified delivery plan.
Federal & state grant and loan applications
Full preparation and submission of USDA, DCED, LSA, RACP, ARC, EDA, and other programs. We handle the narrative, attachments, budgets, and communication so your staff doesn't have to manage the complexity.
Multi-year fundraising strategy & campaign planning
Step-by-step plans for raising major gifts, sequencing grant applications, preparing donor materials, and sustaining momentum over multiple years.

Compliance & post-award administration

Public funding & regulatory coordination
Oversight of federal and state funding processes (USDA, DCED, LSA, RACP, ARC, EDA), including procurement alignment, wage compliance, environmental review, and post-award administration.
Post-award compliance, reporting & closeout
Once funds are awarded, we manage reimbursements, reporting, documentation, procurement requirements, closeout, and all communication with agencies. This protects your organization from compliance issues and reduces staff burden.
Advancement services & development systems
A fundraising calendar that holds every deadline and reporting requirement, gifts processed and acknowledged on time, and tracking that lets staff and the board see performance against target without assembling it by hand.

Fundraising & development

Fractional development leadership
Senior development capacity for organizations whose ambitions have outgrown their current staffing. I work alongside the executive director on fundraising strategy, annual targets, and long-term growth of philanthropic support — the leadership a growing development function needs without adding another full-time executive.
Major gifts & donor cultivation
Building and growing a portfolio of individual donors: identifying major gift prospects aligned with where the organization is going, cultivating them patiently, and re-engaging donors who have drifted away. The same cycle runs through the board, working with the executive director and board chair to cultivate, solicit, and steward board members for annual and special gifts. I prepare the executive director for funder conversations, attend them, and handle the follow-up, so relationships keep moving instead of stalling between meetings.
Annual giving & solicitation campaigns
Annual appeals at every level in support of general operating needs, sequenced across the year so asks arrive at the right moment for each donor rather than all at once.
Case for support & campaign narrative
Concise, compelling materials that explain your project's purpose, community impact, and funding needs in language that resonates with donors, funders, and public partners.

Capital Work

Pocono Family YMCA

Driving a $21 Million Capital Expansion

Grant writing, USDA Rural Development financing, operations audit, and project management across a one-year $21M facility expansion.

$21MCapital project value$8MUSDA RD loan package$1MPaired federal grant40%Administrative hours saved

Uniontown Area YMCA

Funding a $9.6 Million Community Health Transformation

Capital campaign strategy, federal appropriations, and grant infrastructure for a community wellness hub in southwestern Pennsylvania.

$9.6MCapital improvement value$15MRACP grants coordinated3Congressional applications6Letters of support secured

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Bring the project you're weighing up — a feasibility question, a funding gap, a board that needs a decision — and we'll map what it takes to move it forward.

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