Rylander Associates
Full Membership

Carole V. Rylander CFRE 
6873 Blackwood Drive
Dallas, TX 75231
United States

(214) 348-9086
(214) 348-9372 Fax
carole@rylanderassociates.com

Rylander Associates is a professional consulting firm serving not-for-profit organizations since 1998 in funds development, planning and governance. With more than 21 years of service in the sector, Ms. Rylander offers customized solutions to challenges experienced by not-for-profit organizations.

She makes use of multiple techniques such as hands-on consulting, facilitation, executive coaching and training services to empower board and staff leadership and to create synergy among operational areas. She draws upon any one or a combination of strategies to assist leadership in moving their organization to a new level of productivity and efficiency, thereby achieving greater success in fulfilling their mission.

Ms. Rylander has significant experience with feasibility studies and capital campaigns, major gifts, annual giving, strategic planning, board development and governance, governance and development audits, development planning, program and constituent communications and grantseeking.

Ms. Rylander is a frequent speaker whose highly rated workshops and trainings benefit board and staff leadership as well as corporate executives seeking to be engaged in the not-for-profit sector. Presentation topics include: Strategies for Successful Trustee Leadership, Before Joining a Board..., Fundraising...It's Not About the Money, Leading Your Leadership to Major Gift Success, Four Keys to Fundraising Success, Managing the Development Office, and The Case Statement Workshop, among others.

Currently, Ms. Rylander serves as Past Chair of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel, Inc., a national association of consulting firms, and as a volunteer faculty member at the Center for Nonprofit Management in Dallas. She is also a member of the University of Dallas Advisory Board of the Not-for-Profit Management Program of the Graduate School of Management.

She is a past president of the Dallas Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and has held accreditation as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) since 1990. Ms. Rylander is a member of the International Association of Facilitators and is a Qualified Trainer with the Institute of Cultural Affairs.

Services Provided:

Audits
Board Development
Capital Campaigns
Executive Recruitment
Feasibility Planning Studies
Fundraising Communications
Grantsmanship
Strategic Planning