Biondolillo Associates

Leadership . . . Visibility . . . Donors!^SM

Biondolillo Associates is the firm responsible for the dramatic growth and popularity of walkathons and other pledge-based fundraisers throughout the nation. Through these and other branded events, we’ve helped nonprofit organizations acquire millions of caring donors and raise hundreds of millions of dollars for their causes. But most importantly, we’ve helped propel the entire special-event fundraising industry to new heights.

Did you know that many nonprofit executives once viewed special events as extremely weak development vehicles? But that was before Biondolillo Associates coined the term "signature event," and proved that an innovative and mission-rich program could serve as an organization’s lead development vehicle.

How? By developing "properties" that successfully integrate multiple marketing, fundraising and programmatic objectives, including leadership positioning and cut-through-the-clutter visibility, donor acquisition and cultivation, corporate and media sponsorship, government relations and advocacy, and community relations and volunteer recruitment. In a nutshell, we develop unsurpassed leadership vehicles capable of mobilizing vast resources.

And the great news is that we can do the same for your organization, because there is nothing accidental about our accomplishments. They are all the result of mixing a lot of brains and creative capability with a little heart and soul. And, yes, an unsurpassed track record in making a difference!

NEW and NOTEWORTHY

According to USA Today (April 2010), three of the nation’s Top 10 Charitable Events are Biondolillo-designed and/or developed fundraisers!

Biondolillo Associates was invited by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation to tackle one of the nation's largest-ever grassroots fundraising strategy assignments. The challenge: how to raise the $100 million per year private-sector "match" to fund universal after-school childcare in the state of California. The solution: Biondolillo conceived the Leadership Development Corps (LDC), the nation's first service corps dedicated to resource development. The LDC is designed to provide a highly-practical experience in both pledge-based and major-donor fundraising aimed at preparing college graduates to move along many career paths—particularly in the nonprofit sector—while providing badly-needed resources for high-quality after-school programming.

Also, the Biondolillo-developed Making Strides Against Breast Cancer program enjoyed its 17th year of growth! To date, the program has raised $400 million. For details, go to Pledge-based Fundraising.

For the past three years, Steven Biondolillo has been a featured speaker at the Association of Fundraising Professionals International Conference on Fundraising, where he has discussed our firm’s seminal role in the growth and development of the $2+ billion pledge fundraising industry. Among Biondolillo’s clients are numerous category leaders, including the American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, American Lung Association, and Arthritis Foundation.

And on a "poetic note," Steven Biondolillo was recently the guest speaker in the "Lunch & Learn" series sponsored by New England's largest public relations agency—Schwartz Communications, Inc. To hear Steven speak about our powerful new inspirational seminar, "Life-Changing Insights in Verse," please listen to the Schwartz Communications podcast here.

Also, 2009 marked the publication of Steven’s new book, Macaroni and Cheese Manifesto. For details, please visit www.macaroniandcheese.com.