About For Impact | The Suddes Group
Tom Suddes founded The Suddes Group in 1983 after serving as Director of Development at The University of Notre Dame and after founding 11 companies in various sectors. In 25+ years The Suddes Group has raised over $1Billion for organizations around the world, run more than 400 successful fundraising campaigns and transformed more than 5000 organizations through our Funding Boot Camps. Clients range from Colleges and Universities to Start-ups to Ashoka Fellows. (Testimonials | Services)
For Impact. A Point of View and a Movement
We launched For Impact in 2001 as a way to share and scale the impact we had working with organizations one-on-one. Through For Impact, our blog and our Open Coaching Network we share our complete approach, Suddes Group consulting frameworks and intellectual property at no cost (still copyrighted).
For Impact has become a movement – the impact of which has transcended our core business. What was once innovative through The Suddes Group is now timely support – to some 30,000 entrepreneurs and organizations (both for profit and not-for-profit… all For Impact) looking to change the world.
Suddes Group Approach
As coaches and consultants we guide, lead and train. We don’t have a cookie-cutter process. Clients describe our fundraising approach as refreshing, non-traditional and entrepreneurial. To provide one example: traditional fundraising focuses too much on activities that have a poor return-on-energy (eg. special events). We teach and deliver using a “sales approach” to secure philanthropy. (The good kind of sales where you communicate return-on-investment – and how you’re saving lives, changing lives and impacting lives.)
The Company We Keep
If Earl Nightingale was right and ‘We become what we think about’ then one way to know us is to understand what we’re thinking about. We draw inspiration from…
| Authors like: Jim Collins Tom Peters Jim Loehr Napoleon Hill Earl Nightingale Zig Ziglar Brian Tracy Michael Gelb Dan Pink |
And Publications Like: Fast Company The Economist Inc. Magazine Ode Magazine |
- Tim Kight
