HELPING YOU, HELP OTHERS

Our Services

Detroit Philanthropy believes in the power of social impact!

Having spent nearly 20 years in the nonprofit sector as an effective and strategic fundraising executive, Detroit Philanthropy Founder and President Rachel Decker, is passionate about helping others, and more importantly, passionate about making connections, solving problems and creating impact in our community. With the founding of Detroit Philanthropy, she turned that passion into a commitment to champion philanthropy throughout metro Detroit in two distinct ways.

Philanthropic Advisory Services

By offering personalized, philanthropic advisory services to metro Detroit philanthropists, Detroit Philanthropy ensures their charitable vision is fully realized, resources are maximized, and meaningful impact is generated. Whether you’re an individual philanthropist, private foundation, or a socially-minded company, Detroit Philanthropy can help you be more strategic with your time, talent and treasure.

Fundraising Counsel and Execution

Additionally, Detroit Philanthropy is a licensed professional fundraiser in the State of Michigan offering strategic fundraising counsel and execution. We create highly tailored fundraising plans that increase organizational capacity by providing the skills, knowledge, and strategies nonprofits need for success today and for years to come. Detroit Philanthropy plans, manages, and implements programs that achieve fundraising goals allowing for maximum community impact.

Client Testimonials

  • Living Arts

    Detroit Philanthropy stepped in during a pivotal time of staff transition. Rachel brought tons of expertise and connections to help us keep our development initiatives going and led a very successful online fundraising campaign. I would definitely recommend Detroit Philanthropy to other nonprofits, especially those experiencing transition.

    - Alissa Novoselick, Former Executive Director

  • Student Advocacy Center

    If you are feeling stuck and unsure about how to transition your fundraising to the next level, Detroit Philanthropy can help by providing strategic direction, ideas and clear action steps.

    - Peri Stone-Palmquist, Executive Director

  • Pediatric Retinal Research Foundation

    Detroit Philanthropy was able to lead our President and our Board through the year-end campaign process with both an eye on strategy and efficiency. By recommending ways to effectively convey our message and by keeping our team focused under a tight deadline, we were able to triple what we raised the previous year. Those funds allowed us to purchase critical equipment for our research efforts.

    - Kelli Matthew, Board Member

  • Playworks Michigan

    We hired Detroit Philanthropy to organize our development plan for the year, assist with our annual fundraising event, and provide advice on our overall development operations. Rachel’s experience and expertise, her timeliness and availability, and her willingness to support our efforts in the best way possible allowed us to develop a clear vision on how to achieve our goals. As a result, we raised more money for our organization.

    - Angela Rogensues, Executive Director

  • Trion Solutions

    It’s always helpful to achieve an outside perspective from a company with Detroit Philanthropy’s vast experience and involvement in the non-profit community. Rachel provided Trion with some strong ideas and insights that were helpful in shaping our marketing, public relations and community-relations plan for the upcoming year - and we enjoyed working with her.

    - Jeff Caponigro, Executive Vice President - Communications and Chief Marketing Officer

  • Detroit Horse Power

    With an ambitious fundraising effort before us, Detroit Philanthropy provided the expertise we needed to effectively prepare for a capital campaign. Since conducting a feasibility study, they are now guiding our strategy and helping us implement a comprehensive plan to take our fundraising to the next level. I’m confident their extensive knowledge and expertise will help us meet our goal.

    - David Silver, Executive Director

  • Orchards Children's Services

    Detroit Philanthropy helped us evaluate our fundraising efforts and provided a report that now serves as a guiding light to help us strengthen our fundraising. It was a superb engagement from beginning to end and I would definitely recommend Detroit Philanthropy to other organizations!

    - Michael Williams, President & CEO

  • Detroit Regional Partnership

    I fully enjoyed the PR for Nonprofits panel discussion held earlier this week. Your guests were phenomenal and you did an outstanding job of moderating. Thank you for this offering.

    - Talitha Johnson, Marketing Manager