Fundraising and charitable giving consultancy
Expert strategies, services, and solutions for impactful giving
Fundraising and charitable giving consultancy
Expert strategies, services, and solutions for impactful giving
Consulting Services
Advancement Leadership
Transition presents the opportunity for transformation. With interim executive service, organizations maintain continuity, build momentum, and set themselves up for future success.
Fundraising Consulting
From drafting gift menus and crafting proposals to designing solicitations and conducting board evaluations, organizations benefit from a breadth of experience in the art and science of development. Synthesis, summary, and storytelling make the difference.
Philanthropic Advising
Maximize impact, reduce tax liability, and ensure your vision is faithfully realized. Individuals and family foundations can hone their priorities, support sustainable organizations, and fund opportunities that make a difference.
About Norse Prairie Philanthropy
Andrew Berg
Andrew Berg, Principal of Norse Prairie Philanthropy, has two decades of experience as a fundraiser and non-profit manager with a demonstrated history of success in arts and culture, higher education, social service, and environment and conservation. He is skilled in executive leadership, principal and major gifts, special events, institutional giving, stewardship, alumni and parent relations, board development, planned gifts, budget management, team supervision, program building, and pipeline development.
Andrew’s professional fundraising experience includes serving as Director of Development at the University of Chicago in a $4.3 billion campaign, Principal and Major Gifts Officer at Cranbrook Educational Community, and as the Chief Development Officer at Detroit Opera, where he led the team to record-breaking contributions. At three separate institutions, he has secured seven-figure gifts from prospects who had never before been visited.
A native of both Chicago and Metro Detroit, he is a midwesterner with experience working across across the country and around the world. In addition to his professional expertise, Andrew has created family bike camping programs, won a winter cycling championship, recreated native prairie with 220 Michigan plant species, organized the Oak Park Garden Tour, led paddleboarding adventures, been named Best Interpreter, appeared on NPR, earned the Eagle Scout rank, learned fluent Spanish, lived in the mountains of Guatemala, swum across the Rio Grande, studied at the Second City Training Center, and managed a Red Cross shelter after Hurricane Katrina.
The Norse Prairie name is an homage to his Norwegian immigrant ancestors who were sodbusters in North Dakota, breaking through the dense and deep root systems of some of the very same native prairie grasses and flowers he has reintroduced to the land he stewards. The son of a wildlife biologist and a librarian and grandson of a lifelong bird lover who taught him to seek knowledge and serve others, Andrew looks softly at the plants, animals, and passing of the seasons in his gardens.
He lives in Oak Park, Michigan, with his two children and floofy cat.