Strategic Planning
For organizations facing a decision point, leadership transition, growth pressure, or a plan that needs to become usable.
Nonprofit Strategy & Fundraising
Strong missions need structure that can carry the work forward.
AMPO Nonprofit Solutions helps nonprofits build clear strategic plans, annual needs fundraising systems, and research-informed learning that staff and boards can use.
Grounded in National Research
- 57+research conversations
- 26states represented
- 566pages of transcripts
- 20+years of sector experience
Choose Your Starting Point
Where does the work need more structure?
Annual Needs Fundraising
For organizations that need a clearer system for the donor-supported revenue required each year to sustain mission delivery.
Research & Learning
For leaders, boards, and teams looking for practical nonprofit learning grounded in AMPO’s research and field experience.
Service · Strategic Planning
Strategic planning built for decisions, follow-through, and board-ready review.
A strategic plan should do more than summarize a retreat. AMPO’s human-centered planning process helps executive leaders and boards understand the real questions, set a clear direction, and create practical tools for implementation and review.
- A focused strategic plan shaped by stakeholder input, data, and board-level decision-making.
- Clear priorities, goals, milestones, and owners that support follow-through.
- A living planning home in AMPO Flow so progress stays visible after approval.
Strategic Planning · AMPO Flow
The planning home your board can return to.
AMPO Flow is the online planning home used during and after an AMPO strategic planning engagement. Planning materials, source documents, priorities, approved goals, implementation tasks, owners, due dates, progress notes, comments, and board review history live in one place.
It helps leaders see what is moving, what needs attention, and what comes next.
The plan your board can review, not the one that disappears after approval.
Service · Annual Needs Fundraising
The repeatable system behind donor-supported revenue.
Annual needs fundraising is the repeatable system that helps an organization raise the donor-supported revenue needed each year to sustain mission delivery. AMPO helps nonprofits name the need, map the giving base, activate the message, and lead the system so fundraising becomes more consistent, relational, and connected to the mission.
- The four system movements mapped to your organization and giving base.
- Fundraising Implementation for customized, one-to-one support inside your own calendar.
- The AMPO Annual Giving Accelerator as a 12-month coaching program your team keeps.
- AMPO Connect for guided year-end appeal production and streamlined direct mail.
A Year of Nonprofit-Sector Research
What AMPO heard across a year of nonprofit-sector research.
Across stakeholder interviews and national discovery conversations, AMPO heard recurring patterns from nonprofit leaders, board members, funders, consultants, and sector experts. The organizations were different, but the underlying challenges often pointed to the same issue: visible problems were often symptoms of deeper system gaps.
The Marketing Mirage
63% of stakeholders interviewed surfaced The Marketing Mirage. Leaders often reach for better marketing first, while the deeper need sits upstream in strategy, focus, goals, or audience clarity.
Board Engagement Crisis
75% of participants described the Board Engagement Crisis. A small group often carries most of the work while other board members wait for a clearer way to contribute.
Operational Infrastructure Gaps
67% of stakeholders interviewed surfaced Operational Infrastructure Gaps. Growth becomes harder when knowledge, systems, and follow-through live in a few people’s heads.
Donor Stewardship Failure
79% of stakeholders interviewed described Donor Stewardship Failure. Many organizations acknowledge the gift but miss the relationship-building practices that support donor trust and retention.
The AMPO Learning Studio
Where research and expert insight become practical learning.
Expert-led nonprofit learning built for boards, executive leaders, and practical follow-through. The AMPO Learning Studio turns AMPO’s research, field experience, and trusted expert conversations into series, episodes, and downloadable tools nonprofit leaders can use.
What Partners Say
“AMPO listened closely and translated the conversations our board had been circling around into a clear strategic framework. The priorities felt like an accurate reflection of our organization, and the board responded positively to both the process and the final direction.”
“AMPO’s training has been beyond helpful. I thought we knew our donors, but I realized we did not have the information or systems we needed. Now I am gathering the right information, organizing our donor records, and building a stronger foundation that will help us connect with people more effectively.”
“Amy has a way of helping me think more clearly. She asks thoughtful questions, challenges my assumptions, and helps turn what we’re trying to accomplish into messaging that is both authentic and actionable.”
Decades of Experience
Built from nonprofit experience, research, and practical implementation.
AMPO Nonprofit Solutions was founded by Amy Pokela, CFRE, after more than 20 years across community-based nonprofits and complex mission-driven organizations. Her experience includes executive leadership, fundraising strategy across 24 states, development infrastructure, organizational change, and university-level instruction in fundraising and nonprofit leadership.
AMPO exists to make clear strategy, practical tools, and stronger fundraising systems more accessible to nonprofits carrying meaningful work with real capacity constraints.
AMPO equips nonprofits with strategy, tools, and confidence to turn bold ideas into lasting impact.
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Start with the question in front of you.
Whether the need is clear or still taking shape, the first step is a focused conversation. AMPO will help name what matters most, identify the right path, and determine whether strategic planning, annual needs fundraising, research-informed learning, or another next step is the best fit.