Strategy Is Only Valuable When It Creates Results.
Our work is designed around outcomes, not simply deliverables.
The Granados Group partners with organizations to solve fundraising and engagement challenges, identify new opportunities, strengthen relationships, and create strategies that can continue delivering value long after an engagement ends.
Building Corporate Partnership Programs
We help organizations identify where their mission intersects with corporate philanthropic priorities and transform that alignment into opportunities for meaningful engagement.
That may begin with a sponsorship, but it shouldn't end there.
We look across an organization to identify opportunities involving programmatic investment, employee engagement, volunteerism, executive leadership, events, thought leadership, workforce development, community impact, and storytelling.
The result is a more compelling value proposition for corporate partners and more opportunities to build long-term relationships.
Growing Signature Fundraising Events
We help organizations look beyond attendance and logistics to evaluate the true fundraising potential of their signature events.
Our work can include sponsorship strategy, corporate cultivation, Host Committees, leadership engagement, donor strategy, revenue opportunities, and post-event stewardship.
The objective isn't simply to produce a successful event.
It's to use the event to open doors, deepen relationships, generate revenue, and create momentum for what happens next.
Activating Boards & Corporate Advisory Boards
The phrase “open your Rolodex” isn't a board engagement strategy.
We help organizations give leaders practical ways to participate in fundraising and relationship development, from making introductions and hosting conversations to cultivating prospects, opening corporate doors, recruiting sponsors, and serving as ambassadors.
By creating clear expectations, tools, and opportunities, boards can become powerful extensions of an organization's development efforts.
Connecting Mission With Corporate Priorities
A strong corporate pitch doesn't begin with:
“Will you sponsor us?”
It begins with:
“Where do our priorities intersect?”
We research and identify connections between an organization's programs and a company's philanthropic, business, workforce, employee, and community priorities.
That alignment creates the foundation for stronger outreach, better conversations, and partnerships that make sense for both organizations.
Creating Meaningful Engagement Beyond the Check
Some of the strongest relationships are built when supporters experience the mission firsthand. We help organizations create engagement opportunities such as:
Employee volunteer activations
Executive engagement
Site visits and tours
Skills-based volunteering
Community initiatives
Leadership conversations
Corporate events
Advisory opportunities
Impact reporting and storytelling
Year-round stewardship
These touchpoints turn financial supporters into invested partners and advocates.
Rethinking What's Always Been Done
“We've always done it this way” isn't a strategy.
Sometimes our role is to challenge assumptions.
Why does this event exist?
Why is this company still on the prospect list?
Why did a longtime funder stop giving?
What happened between the last gift and the next ask?
Are current sponsorship benefits actually valuable?
Does your fundraising strategy reflect today's philanthropic priorities, or yesterday's?
Asking better questions often reveals new opportunities.
Selected Areas of Experience
Our work has supported organizations and initiatives addressing:
Affordable Housing
Food Security
Healthcare & Whole-Person Care
Workforce Development
Education
Community Development
Arts & Culture
Economic Mobility
Leadership & Women's Advancement
Volunteerism & Civic Engagement
Association & Corporate Philanthropy
Across every sector, the common denominator is the same:
Relationships create opportunity. Strategy turns opportunity into impact.