Advancement and global philanthropy

Huron is a global professional services firm specializing in helping organizations navigate complexity and drive transformative change. With expertise across various industries, Huron offers tailored solutions in areas such as digital transformation, organizational change, and innovation.

With over 60 years of experience serving nonprofits worldwide, Huron’s GG+A global philanthropy team is a trusted leader in driving long-term philanthropic growth. We start by listening—gaining a deep understanding of your mission, goals, and constituents. Our team of experts, each with hands-on advancement and fundraising experience, collaborates with you to develop a tailored strategy and actionable roadmap for success. Whether supporting small programs or large-scale global initiatives, we bring innovative solutions and a collaborative approach to every engagement—turning what’s possible into practice.

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Explore our approach

 

Ignite philanthropic growth

Drive substantial and sustainable growth for your mission with a data-driven understanding of your current program and the capacity of your constituency.

Assess your program

Through a collaborative and thorough discovery process, our team works with you to fully understand your program strengths, constraints, operating environment, and philanthropic landscape—and where you stand compared to similar high-performing programs.

Get actionable donor insights

Using your data and industry benchmarks, bolstered by predictive analytics, discover opportunities to increase current giving, attract new donors, develop strategic relationships, and build major and principal gifts portfolios.

Deepen connections with constituents

Cultivate purposeful relationships with donors, patients, alumni, members, ticket buyers, volunteer leaders, and all constituents by engaging in a way that makes your mission an enduring part of their lives. Our team helps clients leverage technology, including AI-enabled tools, to personalize and scale constituent interactions.

Strengthen your communications

Develop and execute strategic communications plans to convey your rationale for support and nurture intentional connections with current and prospective supporters.

Build a powerful, data-driven program

Shore up your strategy and operations with AI-powered prospect research and a data-driven plan grounded in deep insight specific to your goals, opportunities, and mission.

Boost fundraising outcomes

Increase the effectiveness of programs, including gift and estate planning, principal gifts strategy, annual giving, giving days, athletics fundraising, parent programs, and international fundraising.

Tailor your plans to your opportunities

Develop a strategy and road map for success that is unique to your mission and the areas where you have the most opportunity.

Advancement and global philanthropy

Global philanthropy and advancement

Markets we serve

 

Huron’s GG+A team works globally with a diverse range of clients in industries, including:

 

  • Higher education institutions
  • Academic medical centers and health systems
  • Independent schools
  • Arts and cultural institutions
  • Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
  • Research institutes
  • Environmental organizations
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Connect with our global philanthropy experts

  • Suzanne Hilser-Wiles

    Suzanne Hilser-Wiles

    Managing Director

    "By creating sustainable philanthropic growth, organizations can ensure that they have the resources they need to deliver on their missions fully."

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  • Elizabeth Farr

    Elizabeth Kolb Farr

    Principal

    "Done well, fundraising is a joyful pursuit that brings institutional leaders together with generous donors, to forge partnerships that fuel vision and advance the student experience."

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  • Alex Faklis

    Alex Faklis

    Managing Director, Strategy and Operations

    For more than a decade, Alex has helped higher education clients assess, re-imagine, and transform student and alumni experiences. She specializes in strategic planning, operational assessment, performance improvement and aligning technology with institutional imperatives in the student and alumni space.

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  • Pete Lasher

    Pete Lasher

    Principal

    "With philanthropic contributions becoming an increasingly important component of university revenue models, it places more expectations on advancement leaders to demonstrate the return on the investments made in their programs. Fortunately, demonstrating impact is nothing new to these leaders and their teams."

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Making an impact

Huron’s GG+A global philanthropy team works with leading institutions in every sector we serve to advise teams in all areas of advancement.

Consulting and support services to 3,000+ nonprofits and NGOs

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Consulting and support of 100+ fundraising campaigns of $1B or more

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250+ client partnerships across museums, performing arts organizations, zoos, aquariums, gardens and arboretums, and cultural institutions

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Serving over three dozen independent schools annually, with campaign goals ranging from $10 million to $180 million

Partner to flagship public research universities in all 50 U.S. states

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150+ current and recent consulting partnerships with leading academic health centers, cancer centers, and healthcare organizations

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18 of the 24 Russell Group Research Universities in the United Kingdom

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Canada’s top 15 research universities and 4 of the 5 leading universities in Australia


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