About Us
What Makes Schmucker Advising Group Different
We're Nonprofit People Who Understand Organizational Change
Most consultants are either nonprofit experts who don't understand how organizations actually change, or change management experts who don't get the nonprofit sector. We're both. Our team combines deep expertise in organizational development, fundraising, research, and nonprofit strategy with real experience in the trenches.
We Teach You to Stand on Your Own
Our goal isn't to create dependency. It's to build your internal capacity so that when you're ready, you can continue growing without us. We're not interested in being your permanent consultants. We want to be the advisors who helped you become unstoppable.
Nothing Is Prescriptive
Your organization has its own culture, challenges, and opportunities. Cookie-cutter solutions don't work when you're trying to navigate complex organizational change. We help you discover what works for your specific situation, then build the systems and skills to execute it.
Meet The Team
Angie Schmucker, CFRE
Founder & Principal
Angie began her career as a consultant helping for-profit organizations change for the better. The path took her into marketing research, sales, and ultimately, strategy for a Fortune 500 company. In 2002, Angie relied on her business experience, communication, and relationship-building skills to successfully transition into the non-profit sector, focusing on fundraising.
For nearly two decades, she raised funds in a variety of roles and for a broad area of needs ranging from live professional theater to autism, from early childhood and K-12 education to higher education, from athletics to libraries, and from healthcare to museums. She found opportunities to grow and improve every fundraising program she worked on. During this time, her teams worked well together and celebrated achieving their goals.
Angie has a Master’s in Organization Development and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio. She is a Certified Fund-Raising Executive (CFRE) and holds a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) workplace certificate. Angie is married, has two adult sons, and one cat. In her spare time, she loves hiking, making things with paper, and working in the garden.
Areas of Expertise
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Organization Development
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Organization Assessments
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Strategic Planning
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Board Assessment, Development, and Training
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Executive Coaching and Leadership Development
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Fundraising Planning
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Major and Principal Gifts
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Planned and Annual Giving
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Stewardship and Donor Relations
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Team Culture and Engagement
Our Methodology
Schmucker Advising Group has designed a method for change, specifically designed for boards and for nonprofits and their unique needs. Our HEAPS® Consulting utilizes a five-step process. This interactive and integrated process is used throughout each project to ensure forward progress. With HEAPS® Consulting, we address obstacles and optimize opportunities to help your organization move towards your desired future.
HEAPS® Consulting provides an intuitive and organized approach to understanding the current environment and what you already know, while allowing you to envision the desired future state. The starting point of the HEAPS® Consulting process is based on what we hear from all of the key constituents. We use this basis to clearly educate teams about the difference between where you are versus where you want to be in the future.
Working together, we develop realistic action plans that will help bridge the team from today, to tomorrow. Once your action plan is developed, we help you determine how to put the planned changes into practice ensuring you will ultimately reach success. Finally, to ensure that the team can achieve and maintain the change, we help you put the structure in place to keep the team on track for the long-term.
The focus of HEAPS® Consulting is not on the particular change alone, but working, thinking and approaching the everyday need for change in new and exciting ways. The details of learning about and converting to a new way of embracing future success will bring a renewed energy and dynamic to your team or organization, and provide a clear, unified path forward for everyone. Schmucker Advising Group’s HEAPS® Consulting will guide you through the process to build a successful team focused on the future of your organization.