Raising funds and awareness for the world’s important work.
Serven Strategies partners with nonprofits and small businesses to accelerate awareness and growth to achieve lasting success.
We specialize in crafting tailored development and marketing strategies, streamlining processes, and delivering actionable plans that drive measurable results. From content creation to corporate relations, social media, and fundraising, we help you enhance communication, foster engagement, and boost your financial performance.
Our approach includes a comprehensive 360-degree review of your current practices to inform strategy development. We then create clear, actionable plans with precise timelines designed to elevate brand awareness, broaden your reach, and meet your financial objectives.
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Services
We work directly with you to develop, expand, and execute your organization's development, marketing, and operations strategy.
Development
Fractional CDO, development planning, corporate partnerships, annual fund strategy, capital campaigns, restructuring, donor relations
Marketing
Fractional CMO, marketing strategy, communications planning, rebranding, new market development
Operations
Efficiency planning, financial planning, budget development and oversight, change management, policies, processes, procedures development
Fundraising
Annual fund planning and execution, special events, content development, donor segmentation strategy, planning, execution
Digital
SEM, SEO, strategy execution, content creation and execution, social media strategy and implementation, analytics
Board Engagement
Strategy, recruitment, training, evaluation, fundraising, partnership development
What People Say
Susan Serven is one of the best-organized, forward-thinking, take-charge, make-something-happen, see-things-through-to-the-end people on Earth! Her rare combination of positive energy, intelligence and determination make her an extraordinary leader!
Jay Frost, Frost Fundraising
I can’t say enough about Susan. She does it all - with energy, initiative and incredible drive, she brings a tech-savvy and development brain to everything she touches. I can’t believe all these traits are rolled up into one person. She is truly impressive.
Carrie Bernier, Executive Director
Susan is a dedicated and hard-working executive whose leadership and creativity was directly responsible for the success of the Chinese Language School (of Connecticut).
Hans Hsu, Co-Founder, Board Chair, Chinese Language School of Connecticut
Susan single-handedly grew a startup business to include more than 100 local nonprofit agencies and more than 1,000 funders in 2.5 years. She created and nurtured relationships (and) patiently trained and guided those relationships new to the fold.
Janet King, Executive Director, Community Fund of Darien
Special and HUGE thanks go to Susan for her dedication, attention to detail, keeping me, Frank, and Jack in line (not easy to do) and her extraordinary patience and attitude. No way this event runs as smoothly as it did without Susan at the helm, captaining the ship.
Peter Krieger, Board Member, Co-Chair, Voices Center for Resilience, 20th Anniversary golf event
(Susan is).very responsive and takes a proactive response to solving issues…attention to detail without losing sight of the big picture.” Above all, she always has a smile and comes out to be a great friend to her team members.
Bharat Chelluboina - Ascend Pan Asian Leadership
Contact
You can email me at susan@servenstrategies.com or find me on LinkedIn.