Sample Projects

An important focus of our work is on helping organizations identify and successfully solicit major donors. Our services include coaching staff and volunteers on conducting solicitation visits, prospect reviews and capital campaigns. 

Johanna Gurland Associates has created and developed capital campaigns ranging from a $3.25 million campaign to protect and preserve the last living Shaker community (Maine’s Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Forest and Farm) to a $150,000 campaign to create a special endowment fund (Historic New England). For the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we helped their $2.2 million capital campaign exceed its goal and reach $5 million!  Recent accomplishments also include helping the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation raise $1 million to support the museum’s new Conservation Centre.

Recent campaigns have included a $5.3 million campaign to fund a permanent installation by Robert Irwin, one of America’s most influential artists, for The Chinati Foundation, a contemporary art museum in West Texas. This three-year campaign included a $750,000 challenge grant, a $250,000 endowment challenge and the museum’s first Kickstarter campaign, which exceeded the $100,000 goal.

The Parish of All Saints, Ashmont in Boston, Massachusetts worked with Johanna Gurland Associates on a campaign to restore this beautiful example of 19th century Gothic Revival architecture. The campaign raised $17 million from generous foundations and individuals, both from within and outside the Parish, including a challenge grant to create a $2 million endowed fund for future preservation.

In 2008, we helped secure a $2 million gift for the National Trust for Scotland – their largest gift from an American donor to date.  This gift was complemented by an additional gift of $1.8 million made in 2009.

Working closely with the President and Founder of the Environmental Careers Organization (Boston, Massachusetts), Ms. Gurland developed the California Sustainable Communities Leadership Program (1999-2004).  This fellowship program received over $2 million in grants from local and national foundations.