Hiring a fundraising consultant best practices

Oct 21 2025

What every parish needs in a capital campaign manager

By Jim Steier Steier Tips

By Matt Vuorela / Chief Executive Officer of Steier Group When considering a professional fundraising and development firm to assist with or build a capital campaign for your church or organization, it is important to…

Mar 19 2024

Lessons learned from raising $3 billion

By Brian Norton Steier Tips

Watch the video above for a short message from our CEO, Matt Vuorela. When Jim Steier founded the Steier Group in the attic of the Steier family home in 1997, the idea of helping…

Feb 22 2024

Fundraising trends to watch this year

By Sarah Deeney Steier Tips

It’s a new year, and while the basic formula for fundraising may seem the same, in many ways the landscape for organizations that rely on generous donations is new terrain. Though the latest news for…

Jan 09 2024

How to maximize your grant writing potential

By Brian Norton Steier Tips

When you launch a capital campaign and you’re faced with the work that goes into such an effort, it’s easy to dream that some billionaire or foundation will swoop in and award you a massive…

Sep 15 2023

Lessons from Twelve Wicker Baskets

By Sarah Deeney Steier Tips, Steier Wire

Launched in February 2022, Twelve Wicker Baskets, the Steier Group’s podcast, broadly explores all the many ways God meets the spiritual and temporal needs of parishes, Catholic schools, dioceses and beyond. The idea for the…

Sep 01 2023

Team Catholic: Dream big, then do the work

By Sarah Deeney Steier Tips, Steier Wire

Team Catholic. It is a simple idea. Every member of the community working in unity to support the Catholic Church. But, in the Steier Group’s work across North America, we’ve found that’s often not the…

Aug 15 2023

Steier Group promotes Matt Vuorela to CEO

By Sarah Deeney News, Steier Tips

After five years serving as the firm’s president, the Steier Group has promoted Matt Vuorela to Chief Executive Officer. “This is an acknowledgement of the work that Matt is already doing,” Steier said. “He’s serving…

Nov 09 2021

Endowment campaign strategies that work

By Jim Steier Steier Tips

For many nonprofits, raising money for an endowment is the ultimate dream. To have the resources and support necessary to increase an endowment beyond an organization’s operating needs seems like a challenging, yet desirable goal.…

Sep 08 2021

Finding fundraising success during a crisis

By Jim Steier Steier Tips, Steier Wire

In addition to our diocesan partners, the Steier Group helped churches, schools, Newman Centers and Catholic Charities across North America weather the pandemic storm. Many of these organizations stayed the course even as lockdowns occurred.…

Sep 30 2020

Roadmap to recovery