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Our Firm

Consultants in Philanthropic Management

S. Sutton & Associates Inc. brings decades of experience to all aspects of your philanthropic initiatives providing the best possible strategies and approaches to help you realize your philanthropic potential.

First Principles

Collaboration

S. Sutton & Associates Inc. serves as partner with our clients to build philanthropic capacity. Our consultants bring experience, objectivity and candor in our counsel to presidents, governing boards, fundraising staff and philanthropists to help meet their objectives and build a high-performance culture of philanthropy.

Best Practices

S. Sutton & Associates Inc. brings expertise in the most current best practices to all our relationships to help clients elevate performance to meet immediate needs and achieve long-term, sustainable growth. We draw from our philanthropic management experience across diverse sectors around the world and regularly refine and apply best practices.

Evidence-Based

S. Sutton & Associates Inc. applies a strategic, rigorous, analytics and evidence-based approach to provide guidance to the philanthropic enterprise in its entirety: all programs, support services, as well as executive and volunteer leadership.

Rigor

S. Sutton & Associates Inc. applies rigor and seeks clients eager to set ambitious goals and align activity to achieve results.

Results

S. Sutton & Associates Inc. is dedicated to providing counsel that has qualitative and quantitative positive impact on clients. Our accountability is to help clients achieve their philanthropic objectives and develop the means to build on success for many years to come.

Methodology

Recognize
Opportunities

Change creates opportunity. Shifts in political, economic, business environments, or ecosystems, transitions in staff or board leadership, strategic or campaign planning or evolution/launch of a new program, can be harnessed to optimize success going forward.

Audit, Evaluate,
Assess

Information drives process. We capture and use data to conduct a comprehensive audit, evaluation and assessment to inform next steps to strengthen your philanthropic efforts.

Create
Roadmap

S. Sutton & Associates Inc. translates evidence – based actionable recommendations into strategy and action steps, providing a strategic, comprehensive roadmap to achieve your goals. With hands-on assistance we apply a framework to help your team implement recommendations.

Core Values

Maximize philanthropy to achieve significant impact

Embrace and drive transformational change

Build relationships through communication and respect

Apply creativity to support excellence

International Development Sectors

International Development

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International Development

The poor are hungry and their hunger traps them in poverty. Nearly half the world’s populations, more than 3 billion people, live on less than $2.50 per day. More than 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty, on less than $1.25 per day. This includes 1 billion children worldwide, and each day 22,000 die due to poverty.

The Global Goals for Sustainable Development set by the United Nations seek to implement long term solutions by helping to create capacity to provide sustainable solutions. The unifying thread of the 17 goals and 169 targets is the commitment to eradicating poverty.

Hunger, inadequate access to clean water and sanitation, insufficient shelter and a lack of good health and well-being are but a few of the consequences of poverty which will be addressed. The goals address quality education, gender equality, affordable and clean energy, decent work and economic growth, industry, innovation and infrastructure, reduced inequalities, sustainable cities and communities, responsible consumption and production, climate action, life below water and on land, strong peace and justice institutions and partnerships.

Civil society, government, private sector and academic multi-stakeholder partnerships, backed by financial investment and philanthropic support will ensure the ambitious goals are met. S. Sutton & Associates Inc. understands the need to think globally and act locally. We have the knowledge, expertise and passion to support the international development sector in raising funds to support these ambitious goals.

Healthcare Sectors

Healthcare

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Healthcare

Philanthropy in the healthcare sector is unique in many ways, particularly complex, and more important than ever. Researchers strive to discover cures and develop new treatments, technologies and models of care, which, when translated from “bench to bedside”, provide a better future for all. Their work provides a compelling case for support. Downstream from the research enterprise, lives are saved and enriched every day through the healthcare sector, and the emotional experiences leave many with life-altering memories and a strong incentive to donate.

Costs to discover, develop, translate and deliver new cures, treatments, technologies, and models of care to the patient continue to soar. Escalating overhead, declining reimbursements, healthcare reform, privacy regulations, population demographic shifts, and shifting perceptions of patient care and research commercialization have direct impact on philanthropic needs and giving patterns.

S. Sutton and Associates brings insight, sensitivity and highly skilled technical expertise to philanthropic enterprises within this sector and to their domestic and international prospects and donors.

Community Based Membership and Advocacy Sectors

Community Based Membership & Advocacy

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Community Based Membership & Advocacy

The community based membership and advocacy nonprofit sector is vast. It includes organizations focused on the environment, social services, sports, advocacy, civic and public affairs, as well as a wide range of charities, associations, membership organizations and faith-based institutions. All of these organizations depend heavily on private giving and the same principals of best practices apply. S. Sutton & Associates Inc. brings the same level of experience and expertise to this sector and to donors in their pursuit of community support and impact.

Education Sectors

Education

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Education

Educational institutions at all levels have experienced a decline in public funding, making them increasingly reliant on private philanthropic support. Private and public institutions alike compete fiercely for philanthropic dollars to meet operating costs and address student needs. The key to a sustainable future lies in finding a way to successfully adapt to a changing and increasingly challenging fiscal environment. S. Sutton & Associates Inc. brings experience and expertise to this sector and to donors to design high performance programs and help build sustainable growth.

Arts & Culture Sectors

Arts and Culture

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Arts and Culture

Art, design and culture form a tapestry of opportunity for philanthropic support in a range of domains, from the visual and applied arts, to the performing arts, such as theater, opera, dance, music, festivals and celebrations. Cultural settings such as archives and libraries, cultural heritage museums, historical sites and buildings, and natural heritage sites such as parks and reserves, zoos, aquaria and botanical gardens, require the same careful engagement and development of constituents, members and donors.

S. Sutton and Associates is an adept and appreciative consultant to art, design and cultural organizations and their donors, understanding the contribution of this sector to the milieu of society.