TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Gregory Eubanks, a consulting specialist with more than 15 years in the fundraising and development industry, is celebrating the opening of Eubanks Development Solutions located in The EDGE Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Eubanks Development Solutions assists for profit businesses and nonprofit organizations in planning, organizing and conducting successful capital campaigns by providing the necessary tools to identify, cultivate, solicit, track, and recognize prospects, donors and volunteers.
Eubanks Development Solutions also provides experienced planned giving counsel to assist individuals and their families in developing and executing a comprehensive, systematic, and sustained approach to planned giving.
“With Eubanks you can count on fundraising consultants who care. Whether it’s a national fundraising campaign, Southern giving, or a regional or local campaign, Eubanks Development Solutions can help you raise more money,” said Baron Coker of Making Our Way Better, Union City, Ga. “They provided fundraising counsel for our capital campaign and our annual fund drive.”
In addition to capital campaign and planned giving expertise, Eubanks Development Solutions also offers consultation in prospect research —providing information needed to make well-informed and well-timed solicitations of individuals, foundations, and corporations.
Eubanks cut his teeth as a development officer at the University of Southern Mississippi where he served first as the Executive Director: Presbyterian Student Center and later as Associate Vice President for Development and Church Relations at Stillman College. During this appointment, Eubanks regenerated the previously dormant annual fund drive utilizing a six-step workload to outcome strategy. He also presented proposals to businesses, foundations, government sources, churches and individuals and managed public and private foundation gifts. Eubanks was part of a fundraising team that generated over $19 million for capital projects, $1.5 yearly for operations and over $60 million in grants and contracts over a 5-year period.
Eubanks earned a B.A. from Stillman and attended Alabama A&M University. He went on to Princeton Seminary to earn a Master’s degree. Eubanks actively pursues continuing education opportunities in the area of grantsmanship and fundraising. He participated in the Federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Evaluability Assessment for Non-profits (2005-2007, Washington, DC), The Whaley Company’s Major Gift Prospecting Toolbox (2005, 2012, Atlanta, Georgia), and the Federal Department of Labor/Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development’s The Good and the Bad: New and Emerging Markets Tax Credits workshop (2010, Washington, DC).
“We are open for business and looking forward to doing well by doing good”, Eubanks said.
Eubanks Development Solutions is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. in The EDGE Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation located at 800 22nd Avenue Tuscaloosa, AL 35401.
