Heurista is a consulting firm that helps nonprofits engage and retain donors through streamlined, industry-tested stewardship practices, meaningful storytelling, and creative donor recognition solutions.
We partner with you to reach your goals.
We partner with our clients to improve the tools available to their development teams, which enable them to communicate effectively and efficiently with donors. Our team helps develop policies, procedures, standards and guidelines specific to each institutional culture and informed by best practice. Using informed decision making with experience gained from more than thirty years working with nonprofits and their donors, Heurista delivers engaging experiences, chooses reliable products, develops meaningful content and manages complex projects. Our experience aligning internal and external resources will create seamless processes and procedures that will make your team more successful.
We enjoy finding the balance between proven strategies and new ideas.
The Heurista team includes consultants, project managers, designers and support staff. We work with clients across the US. Project-specific partners allow us to provide innovative solutions for all channels and environments. We provide strategic planning, design, mission-focused storytelling, and implementation support for all types of communication to and about donors.
We have a talent for asking the right questions.
Heurista is the name Anne created to indicate the firm’s discovery-based approach and the cooperative, creative process characteristic of our work. It is a riff on the concept of heuristics, which comes from the Greek heuriskein, meaning to discover. The word shares the same root as eureka and heuretikos, which means inventive with an implication of wisdom or skill.
Anne Manner-McLarty,
President and Lead Consultant
Nationally recognized leader in donor recognition and stewardship program planning
20+ years in the field
Emeriti board member, Association of Donor Relations and Stewardship
Frequent presenter on topics including donor relations, recognition strategy and policy development
