McKellar is a fundraising consultancy serving non-profit organizations and political figures. We offer our clients advanced strategies designed and perfected by Annie Presley and her unique business experiences while working throughout the United States particularly in Missouri, Kansas, Washington DC and on Wall Street.  As a fundraising devotee and proponent of The Art and Science of Fundraising, Annie is pleased to have helped McKellar clients raise more than $700 million for charities and political figures over the last 30 years.

The Art and Science of Fundraising is a highly customized system created to provide clients a plan to reach their fundraising goals. The Science behind our fundraising method was discovered by the knowledge attained through 30 years of success. It is in the charts, formulas, and calculations needed to reach goals. When we apply the Science to our clients’ plans, their specific goals become clearer, and the process a solvable equation. The Art entails stylizing what clients naturally bring to the table.  We help them recognize their innate skills, build courage and confidence, and assist in personalizing the ways in which they can achieve their goals.  When we help them discover and apply the Art, clients will have developed their own fundraising style, at their own comfort level.

As a result of Annie’s extensive political contacts, McKellar Consulting also offers advice and counsel at the Federal, state, and municipal levels of government. We help each client build meaningful relationships with elected officials and teach clients how to leverage those relationships into successful appropriations pursuit, grassroots development, issue positioning, legislative change, lobbying outreach, strategic counsel, and tax credit application.  This is the ultimate in leveraging privately raised dollars.

Annie has also perfected the McKellar Consulting service of “Strategery”. Strategery is the advanced coordination of strategic positioning, strategic planning, and strategic thinking; a combination of activities designed to meet specific goals. Strategery is crucial when organizations large and small face complicated projects which require coalescing people with various skills and responsibilities.

Our clients receive fundraising advice based on a diverse mix of experience and knowledge infused with the energy and drive needed to conduct successful fundraising efforts. We specialize in fundraising efforts such as:

• Annual Fund Campaigns
• Capital Campaigns
• Cause-Related Marketing
• Feasibility Studies
• Partnerships with For-Profits
• Public-Private Partnerships
• Sponsorship
• Strategery
• Sustainable Revenue

Currently, McKellar Consulting provides strategic fundraising counsel to UMKC and recently helped to re-position the Kansas City Ballet toward completing its $38 million Capital Campaign (including a $7 million Endowment) to repurpose the Union Station Power House building into the “Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity.” Since 1993, McKellar Consulting has been privileged to lead campaigns including George Brett’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction activities raising $1 million in special events for ALS, the successful Science City at Union Station capital campaign which generated $263 million, as well as, fundraising for Swope Parkway Health Center with such notables as Lady Margaret Thatcher, Colin Powell, and Tim Russert, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum with the legendary John “Buck” O’Neil, and recently with noted author John Grisham for the Midwestern Innocence Project.

Is your organization ready for some Art and Science? Need some strategery?  Fill out our Handy Dandy Form that will allow us to learn more about you and your organization. We would love to meet with you at our office in City Market for a free consultation. Check out the rest of our website for more details on McKellar Consulting.