About Us
We Help You Fund Your Biggest Ideas
We have more than 30 years of experience of managing successful capital and major gift campaigns for new programs, buildings, preserves, research, endowments, and much more.
We Help You Manage Through Times of Change
Organizations that are well-managed attract more funding. Sometimes executive leadership changes unexpectedly. We step in to get you through that transition and help you strengthen your organization to give board, staff and donors confidence in your future.
We Help You Scale Impact With Social Enterprise and Corporate Partnerships
Visionary, sustainable disruption to solve social and environmental challenges is at the heart of social entrepreneurship. Scaling your impact calls often for going beyond the limits of a donor-based business model. Similarly, partnering with corporate CSR programs involves defining a relationship of mutual benefit. We provide research, brainstorming, design thinking, and business planning services to support your efforts.
Our History
Ansbach & Associates was formed in 1985 in response to a need for greater choice in experienced, professional capital campaign management services in California and surrounding states. It began as an affiliation with Ketchum Inc., the country's largest and most trusted capital campaign management company. The new firm grew quickly to demonstrate a stellar record in campaign successes serving clients regionally, nationally and internationally. In response again to market needs, the company added interim management services to help organizations facing significant challenges and opportunities rebound or grow to set the stage for increased fundraising. Most recently, the firm grew once more using the background and skills of its founder to help match social entrepreneurs with the sustainability objectives of major companies and their community stakeholders.
Our Team
Charley Ansbach, CFRE, President
Mr. Ansbach is the chief project manager for the company. His hallmark is developing clear goals with clients and then ensuring we deliver on each specific and implied outcome. He began his career among the nationally recognized early adopters of modern social entrepreneurship. He then served nationally as a campaign director for Ketchum, Inc.. He and the leadership of Ketchum agreed to create the new boutique firm of Ansbach & Associates and subsequently partnered on a wide range of projects regionally, nationally and internationally. After Ketchum was acquired Ansbach & Associates continued as an independent firm until 2007 when it was purchased by Skystone Ryan. Following the global recession Mr. Ansbach reacquired the firm, restarted the capital campaign service and added interim management at the urging of client organizations. He began teaching social entrepreneurship at the University of Pacific and now teaches that subject and corporate responsibility as a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. Ansbach & Associates is now also matching social entrepreneurs and established companies to help solve market failures, and negative externalities, as well as helping companies realize their internal sustainability goals.
Christa Kaufmann, Vice President
Ms. Kaufmann is the chief client relations and communications manager for the company. Anyone who sits next to her on a flight will, by the time it lands, likely want to donate to whatever she talks to them about. Ms. Kaufmann is a consummate communicator of the passion and importance of well-executed nonprofit causes. She is a former teacher and founder of a Waldorf school. She actively links communities of major donors and related causes and helps organizations envision and communicate fundable objectives. Ms. Kaufmann is multi-lingual and is comfortable working with clients anywhere, from the world's largest cities to the outback in some of its most remote areas. .
Global Network of Project Associates
Ansbach & Associates uses a carefully selected group of associates in all the fields related to funding and management to meet client needs on customized basis. Associate services include campaign promotion, online fundraising, communications, direct mail, forensic accounting, and more. We build each project team to meet the specific needs of each client and mange that team around clear and achievable goals and objectives combined with clear metrics and reporting.
Clients
Healthcare
United Indian Health Services
The M.I.N.D Institute, University of California Davis School of Medicine
Child Neurology Society
Sutter Health Foundation
Providence Hospitals
Mercy Foundation
Ronald McDonald House
Environment
The Gorilla Foundation
Kafue Park, Zambia
PAWS
Ag in the Classroom
ROAR
California Office of Emergency Services
California Farm Water Coalition
California State Parks
Education
University of California, Davis
California State University, Sacramento
Community College Foundation, California
Waldorf Schools
Catholic Schools Department
Natomas Charter School
Arts
Sacramento Symphony
Sacramento Ballet
Sacramento Symphony
Russian National Orchestra
Social Justice
Freedom from Hunger
Arapaho Tribal Nation
Pawnee Tribal Nation
WEAVE
Justice Fellowship Foundation
Child Abuse Prevention Council
Social Profit Network
Women's Wisdom Project
Salvation Army
...And More
Auschwitz Foundation
Leland Stanford Mansion Foundation
Sunnyvale Patent Library
California State Railroad Museum
McClellan Aviation Museum