Development, Funding Readiness & Bookkeeping · Est. 2023

Strong books.
Sound strategy.
Mission ready.

Method partners with nonprofits to build the financial clarity, grant strategy, and operational discipline funders look for — so the work that matters can grow.

Teton Mountains, Jackson WY
Jackson, WY Service nationwide
01
Beliefs

Funding readiness is built, not hoped for.

Most nonprofits aren't short on mission. They're short on infrastructure. Books that can't tell a clean story. Grant cycles run reactively. Boards that want to help but don't know where to plug in.

Method exists to close that gap — sitting alongside small and mid-sized organizations as the finance and development backbone, making the numbers honest, the calendar predictable, and the next round of funding actually within reach.

"A methodical approach to nonprofit finance and fundraising — built one ledger entry, one grant, one funder conversation at a time."
02
Practice

Four practices, one integrated team.

Every engagement starts with a clean financial baseline and ends with a fundable narrative. Pick the practices that fit — all designed to work together.

01 Strategy

Funding readiness

A diagnostic and roadmap that gets finances, governance, and case for support aligned before going to funders.

  • 90-day readiness diagnostic
  • Budget & multi-year forecast
  • Case for support development
  • Board fundraising structure
02 Bookkeeping

Nonprofit bookkeeping

Monthly close, fund accounting, and reporting any board can actually read. Built on QuickBooks Online or Sage Intacct.

  • Monthly reconciliation & close
  • Restricted & unrestricted fund tracking
  • Board-ready financial packets
  • Audit prep & 990 support
03 Grants

Grant writing & pipeline

Prospect research, calendar management, and proposals written by people who actually understand the program model.

  • Prospect research & qualification
  • LOI & full proposal drafting
  • Reporting & renewal management
  • Grant calendar & pipeline ops
04 Operations

Development operations

CRM hygiene, donor stewardship cadences, and the unglamorous systems that make every other dollar easier to raise.

  • CRM setup & cleanup (Bloomerang, Salsa, HubSpot)
  • Donor stewardship tracks
  • Annual appeal & campaign architecture
  • Reporting dashboards
03
Approach

Hands on the work, not just the slide deck.

A strategy is no good if no one's left to run it. Method embeds inside small operating teams as the part-time finance and development function most can't otherwise afford — answering emails, sitting in board meetings, owning the calendar.

Strong infrastructure isn't glamorous. It's how missions outlast a founder.

A
Embedded, not advisory.

Monthly retainer engagements. A line on the org chart for as long as the work calls for it.

B
Books before pitch decks.

No proposal goes out before the financials hold up. Funders read both, so does Method.

C
Plain-language reporting.

Boards and program staff shouldn't need an MBA to read a financial statement. Method's reports don't ask for one.

D
Community-first sourcing.

Most partners come from referrals. Method works at a scale where every engagement is hand-shaken.

04
Partner organizations

A community of mission-driven partners.

Method works alongside nonprofits across Jackson Hole, the Mountain West, and nationwide. A few of the organizations Method has supported:

Launch Pad Foundation
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole
Friends of the National Elk Refuge
Carving the Future
It Takes a Valley
Senior Center of Jackson Hole
Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited
Rock On Society
Spread the Love Commission
Skate Like a Girl
College Skateboarding Educational Foundation
BridgeCamp
Immigrant Hope Wyoming Idaho
Horseshoe Music Festival
Burnside Barber
Sister Summit
FishCamp Collective
+ more
05
Team

A small team built from nonprofit operators, not consultants.

Every member of Method has run a development office, closed a year-end audit, or written a share of declined LOIs. Lived experience, brought to every engagement.

Jamie Evans
Co-founder, Development

Leads grant strategy, funding readiness, and the development engagements that get nonprofits funder-ready and keep them there.

Katie Beech
Co-founder, Bookkeeping

Leads the bookkeeping practice. Owns the monthly close, fund accounting, audit prep, and the 990 work.

Let's get the books & story aligned.

A 30-minute discovery call to map where the org sits now and what readiness looks like from here. No deck, no pitch — just an honest conversation.

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Jackson, WY · Service nationwide