Fundraising Strategy
Develop a practical fundraising direction aligned with organizational priorities, available capacity, leadership needs, and the specific work requiring senior ownership.
Move fundraising priorities forward with senior operating expertise matched to your organization’s needs. Veep connects leaders with vetted operators who can own fundraising strategy, donor initiatives, campaign execution, and related growth work without requiring an immediate permanent executive hire. Flexible engagements provide focused capacity, hands-on ownership, and continuity for nonprofits building momentum.
Senior operators provide focused fundraising ownership across strategy, donor development, campaigns, and execution priorities.
Develop a practical fundraising direction aligned with organizational priorities, available capacity, leadership needs, and the specific work requiring senior ownership.
Support fundraising campaigns through hands-on planning, coordination, reporting, and follow-through so important initiatives move beyond recommendations into active execution.
Strengthen donor-focused initiatives with experienced operating support for relationship programs, fundraising workflows, leadership priorities, and continuity across the engagement.
Veep matches organizations with vetted senior operators who can take ownership of fundraising priorities and related strategic work. Instead of leaving execution with an already-stretched leadership team, operators embed in the work, bring judgment shaped by experience, and deliver outcomes, documentation, context, and continuity. Engagements can be advisory, project-based, or ongoing, with a 30-day fit guarantee.
Veep gives organizations senior operating capacity without requiring an immediate permanent executive hire.
Work with former founders, CEOs, GMs, C-suite executives, and functional leaders who understand high-stakes decisions.
Receive an operator selected for the priority, urgency, organization, function, and business context.
Operators step into the work and own outcomes instead of leaving leadership with recommendations alone.
Scope support around the fundraising initiative, with options to pause, extend, or scale the engagement.
Experienced founders and operators helping leaders move important work forward.
Co-Founder
Dave Garcia is a Co-Founder of Veep, bringing decades of experience building and scaling products inside high-growth startups. Throughout his career, Dave has launched products from the ground up, led critical organizational pivots, and guided companies through successful exits. His deep understanding of what it takes to move fast without sacrificing quality shapes Veep's approach to matching companies with senior operators who can immediately own outcomes. At Veep, Dave focuses on helping founders and CEOs offload urgent, high-impact work so they can concentrate on strategic priorities. He is passionate about giving founders access to the same caliber of operating talent that only the largest companies typically enjoy, ensuring critical work never sits idle waiting for a permanent hire.
Co-Founder
Jian Yang is a Co-Founder of Veep with an extensive background in raising capital, scaling companies, and leading organizations through successful exits. His experience spans multiple high-growth environments where he directly navigated the operational and financial challenges that founders face daily. Jian co-founded Veep to give other founders and executives access to senior-level operating expertise without the delays and risks of traditional hiring processes. He is dedicated to helping companies move critical initiatives forward with the same rigor and judgment he applied while building and scaling his own ventures. At Veep, Jian focuses on ensuring clients receive matched operators who bring both strategic insight and hands-on execution, helping founder-led and investor-backed companies grow smarter and faster.
Co-Founder
Mark Newhouse is a Co-Founder of Veep, known for building brands, transforming organizations, and successfully selling startups over the course of his career. His broad experience across company stages and industries gives him a unique perspective on the operational gaps that emerge as businesses scale. Mark co-founded Veep to address a recurring problem he witnessed firsthand: critical work without clear ownership, left to founders and CEOs already stretched thin. He is committed to building alongside founders, providing them with vetted senior operators who step in immediately and take ownership of high-impact priorities. At Veep, Mark emphasizes clean handoffs and guaranteed fit, ensuring that every engagement delivers real results and lasting continuity for the businesses Veep serves.
Nonprofit fundraising consulting can include fundraising strategy, donor development, campaign planning, execution support, reporting, and leadership-level operating capacity. The right scope depends on the organization’s priority and the work that needs ownership. Veep’s operators can support advisory, project-based, or ongoing engagements, with an emphasis on hands-on execution rather than recommendations that remain with the client.
Talk with Veep about the priority that needs experienced ownership.
Invite-only network of experienced senior operators
Matching shaped around work, urgency, context, and fit
30-day option to replace the operator or exit
Share your priority, context, and desired level of support to explore a suitable Veep engagement.
To help us assist you faster, please include the reason for your message so the relevant team can reach out as soon as possible.
To help us assist you faster, please include the reason for your message so the relevant team can reach out as soon as possible.