Dickerson Bakker

Dickerson Bakker is a consulting firm working with nonprofit organisations on fundraising, talent management and strategy. Founded in 1985 and headquartered in North Carolina, the firm has operated for roughly four decades and serves clients ranging from small grassroots startups to multinational organisations. Its work spans the United States, Canada and overseas, with consulting teams distributed across the country rather than concentrated in a single office.

The firm's services are organised around five offerings: Major Gift Solutions, which helps nonprofits develop and grow major gift fundraising programmes; Capital Campaigns, covering the planning and execution of capital campaigns; Executive Search & Recruitment, a talent management practice that identifies and recruits executive leadership for nonprofits; Grant Development, which supports the identification, writing and pursuit of grant funding; and Strategy Consulting, advisory work aimed at building organisational capacity, sustainability and impact. Engagements are customised to each client rather than delivered as standardised packages.

Practice areas concentrate on the nonprofit sector, philanthropy and fundraising, and talent management and executive recruitment. The firm describes its work as mission-driven, oriented toward enabling nonprofit impact and community change, and it partners with organisations of widely differing size and scale.