About Us
What We Do
Macdonald Consulting provides tailored fundraising solutions backed by hands-on experience. We meet you where you are and put the right tools and concepts in your hands.
Our services include capital campaign design and strategy, capital campaign planning and feasibility studies, CEO and board advising, institutional giving, development strategy, and planned giving. Our focus is always on growing your impact and increasing your sustainability.
Our founder Zack Macdonald brings over 25 years of fundraising experience working with some of the most accomplished non-profit leaders and fundraising professionals in the United States and abroad. He has advised complex non-profits for over a decade and before that spent a decade with the Stanford University office of development and as a leader raising tens of millions of dollars for start-ups, rebuilds, and complex global organizations. Zack experience spans higher education, environmental, civic, health-related, faith-based, K-12 educational, and Jewish communal institutions.
Expertise by itself is not enough. Zack's clients find him to be a true partner, highly committed to their success, creative, and with a sense of humor, and a breadth of real-world experience that can make even the toughest challenges manageable.
He brings a deep library of personal experience in best practices and an ability to adapt them to each unique situation. He will help you prioritize, make the necessary changes, and establish effective systems and practices that deliver results.
He gives you the skills, tools, and confidence you need to adapt and grow.
Our Commitment
An understanding of your needs, your values, your mission, and your people.
Powerful organizational strategies to drive increased results and keep costs down.
Sophisticated and effective major donor strategies.
Deep capital campaign expertise.
Advice tailored to your unique circumstances.
Great listening and questions geared to find creative solutions.
Original thinking and a new perspective.
Inspiring training of board leadership, major donor volunteers, and CEOs.
Lean, low-overhead and direct work with Zack as our principal - not subcontractors or associates.