You’re the kind who saves the world.

We’re the kind who helps.

Our mission is you, so you can get back to your mission.

In over three decades of serving social good as nonprofit consultants, we've built a community of experienced, talented, and passionate people. 

Our community includes past, current, and future clients, consultants, wanna-be consultants, agencies serving social good, board members who want to serve, people who just can’t quite retire, people we can’t even categorize. 

We all want the pure joy of helping others.

Whether you need help crafting a fundraising strategy, understanding and improving your constituent journey, aligning your people for mission advancement, whatever…we know the right person and can get you to them. 

Sometimes we get paid. Sometimes we don’t. 
It all works out. 

Maybe you already know what you need…

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    People to Help

    Learn how Turnkey connects the right person to the right challenge, all in service of your mission.

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    Strategy & Consulting

    Understand the space between where you are and where you want to go.

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    Speakers and Education

    Hear from peers with expertise in everything from fundraising to psychological strategy to executive coaching, and more.

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…or you’d like to know who works with us…

We enthusiastically connect people to solve problems to help humanity, and over 30 years in the nonprofit space means we've connected with many folks in many organizations, big and small.
Here are a few of those who have seeded social good with the help of Turnkey. For a more comprehensive (but not all-encompassing) list of our clients, read on.

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Our latest blog

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How to Deal with Board Member Travel Expenses 
How to Deal with Board Member Travel Expenses 

Who should pay for a board member’s expenses in serving? Tricky question.

Board Management is a big part of a CEO’s job. Sometimes the details can get in the way of a great relationship. For example, managing the expenses around board members attending board meetings can be tricky. Here is how multiple organizations manage this conversation with sometimes policy, sometimes art, sometimes psychology.

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Our latest webinar

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The Psychology of Auction Fundraising
The Psychology of Auction Fundraising

Watch and listen in “The Psychology of Auction Fundraising” as host Katrina VanHuss, Turnkey CEO, leads a panel discussion of experts with Event.Gives exploring the unconscious drivers at work during auctions. Called “auction fever,” people wind up paying much more than they should for items.

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Social Fundraising Bookclub

Social Fundraising Book Club
Social Fundraising - Chapter 3
Social Fundraising - Chapter 3

Join Katrina VanHuss and Otis Fulton with guest Natalie Carlisle, CDO of Food For The Poor, about Making Design Choices for Your Social Fundraising Property.

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What people are saying about us

  • Brian Carney, CEO, Blue Sea Foundation

    “The openhanded DNA in Turnkey is humbling to experience. Thank you for building a company of such character (and characters!!) and for giving me Kate to work with from time to time.”

  • Aubrey Rhodes, VP Community Engagement + Outreach, LCRF

    “Turnkey helped to facilitate LCRF's three-year strategic planning process, and we were pleased by their ability to create alignment, synergy and vision among a wide-range of volunteer leaders and staff. The plan we developed will have significant impact on the lung cancer community and our ability to drive LCRF's mission forward.”

  • Katie Cooper, Director of Chapter Advancement, National Hemophilia Foundation

    “The Turnkey team has been a tremendous addition to our peer to peer training initiatives. Their application of the psychology of fundraising to their interactive training modules has created a shift to "you-centric" dialogue between our chapters and their communities. We are excited to continue to partner with them and continue to communicate with our community through the lens of of our most loyal supporters.”

  • Lori Poland, Executive Director, The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect

    “Our experience with Turnkey has been phenomenal. The engagement with them has not only driven our organization in a direction of expansion and growth for the greater cause. TurnKey has helped us to not on create a fundraising platform that is innovative and new, but one that allows for expansion and development strategically for our organization. TurnKey's services, from idea formulation, consulting through projects, and coaching, my work and life is different and I thank TurnKey for their commitment to making business better.”

  • Tracy Cesaretti, VP Events, ZERO - The End of Prostate Cancer

    “Katrina and Otis were wonderful and engaging speaking with our group of Volunteer leaders in March. They provided great content and engaged the audience by answering questions, making our attendees feel heard. Our group of attendees all rated their discussion with perfect scores. Our P2P series is undergoing change and we needed experts to come in and calm down some of the doubters and they did just that. They have been requested to come back again next year to our annual meeting. Katina and Otis were amazing and just nailed it for us!”

  • Alison Fussell, Executive Director, Childspring International

    “…what you wrote about women in philanthropy is profound and insightful. Still, the fact that I HAD to write you, with grants waiting to be finished, more calls to be made, and an office move (one that sends one’s blood pressure to new heights) means that you flat out inspired me. Electrified by you once again. Keep up the inspiring work.”

 We wrote the book on motivating fundraisers (literally).

Front page of Dollar Dash book

Motivating fundraisers was the first area of study for Turnkey. After two decades of study, research, interview, and experience, Turnkey’s Katrina VanHuss and Otis Fulton, Ph.D. published Dollar Dash: The Behavioral Economics of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising in 2017.

You can motivate people, if you know what makes them tick. Katrina and Dr. Fulton lay out the psychology behind some of the nonprofit industry’s greatest P2P success stories – and why some have struggled. Dollar Dash provides you with a roadmap for rallying people to support your cause.

Reach out for information on speaking engagements and download chapter one here.