He has served as an annual giving program consultant since 1996, and has served more than 200 clients world-wide over that time. Bob Burdenski is not a fund-raising consulting “generalist” – he has concentrated solely on annual giving programs for the past eighteen years.
A recipient of the prestigious CASE “Crystal Apple” award for teaching excellence as ranked by his audiences, he has educated and entertained at presentations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia including the 2007 CASE Europe Independent Schools Conferences in Dublin, Ireland, and the 2008 CASE Asia Pacific Conference in Hong Kong. In 2009, he co-presented CASE’s first-ever advancement training programs in India. He is also a contributor to CASE’s Online Speaker Series on the subject of annual giving.
Since 2002, he has served as the moderator of FundList, the largest fundraising e-mail discussion listserv in the world, with more than 3,000 development professional subscribers.
Bob Burdenski is an independent consultant and is not part of any larger fundraising corporation, vendor or service provider. Working with Bob doesn't teach you about a single method -- Bob shares examples from hundreds of institutions from around the world. A signature component of Bob's work is his customized Annual Giving Program Review, and there are many other ways in which institutions Work with Bob Burdenski.
Bob works with colleges and universities, hospitals and other not-for-profit organizations to effect change and improve their annual giving performance, using a variety of data analysis tools, program evaluation and planning methods, and best practice examples collected through his years of consulting work.
He works with direct marketing programs ranging in size from hundreds of prospects to hundreds of thousands of prospects. Bob launched one of the first computerized phonathon calling programs in the U.S. at Cleveland State University in 1991.
He coaches organizations on the implementation of leadership annual giving programs that advance donor giving capacity and identify qualified major gift prospects.He works with membership and alumni relations programs to identify affinity-building opportunities for program enhancement.
