Who We Are

We are Advancement Associates, Inc. We are committed to Building Relationships and Advancing Your Mission. While our headquarters is in Bellefontaine, Ohio, we live in various parts of the United States.

We offer comprehensive consultation services that range from strategic visioning, capital campaign/fundraising services and enrollment consultation to market research, strategic planning, communications and marketing. (See "What we do")

Our clients are, in the main, denominationally related nonprofit agencies such as schools, health care institutions, retirement centers and church agencies.

We’ve been successful because:

• We enjoy working with each other.
• We share the same values and commitments.
• We have worked many years in the fields of our specialties.
• We are passionate about the work of nonprofit organizations.
• We prefer to work with "the whole" — that is with organizational vision, mission, stakeholders and strategies — when we address any one issue.

We are Rich Gerig, Becky Drumm, Dan Hess, Michael Wiese and Sherilyn Ortman. And, depending upon the contract, we bring in additional specialists to join our consultant team.

We are ready to work with you.

I am grateful that Rich took the time to understand not only me as a person and professional, but also the circumstances and surroundings of the school and the partners who believe in our mission.

 

Development Director, PreK-8 Christian School

Penn View Christian School :
Students bow for prayer before lunch

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