Portfolio: The Center for Black Excellence and Culture

A dynamic campaign to support a transformative project

Amanda White Consulting was hired to plan, launch, and implement a $33 million capital campaign to build The Center for Black Excellence and Culture, fund program development, and create operating reserves. As a new initiative and non-profit organization, The Center did not have the organization infrastructure, capacity, or campaign experience to launch a successful capital raise.

Over the course of three years, Amanda and her team provided the campaign planning, management, tools, and staffing to support a high-profile campaign that exceeded expectations.

Amanda White Consulting’s services include:

  • Capital campaign planning

  • Coordination of the capital campaign committee

  • Major gift coaching

  • Prospect research and prospect meeting strategy

  • Support leadership in relationship-building, prospect communication, and donor engagement

  • Campaign progress reports

  • Grant research

  • Specific campaign appeals within the capital raise

  • Guidance on groundbreaking

  • Planning and management of the “public” phase

“Amanda was a thought partner through our capital campaign process. Working with her to plan the visits, think through the asks, create the materials, and manage the overall campaign was essential to our success. That level of partnership is how we were able to raise $29 million and counting!”

- Rev. Dr. Alex Gee, CEO & Founder

“Amanda is a great strategist, but also tenacious in follow-up and execution - a rare combination. And she is a pleasure to work with. We would not be where we are in our capital campaign without her. I recommend Amanda highly!”

- Jim Bower, Project Manager