Strategic Partners

3B Fund Development Group is a consortium of individuals with extensive experience in the field of not-for-profit senior living communities and a track record for successful grant applications and fund development campaigns. 3B offers a turnkey approach for organizations who need to implement or strengthen a development program.
Jean Bacon recently retired from a career as a CEO of a Continuing Care Retirement Community. Jean has refined the art of integrating fund development with operations and developing communications programs with donors, staff and residents, and can help guide 3B clients with these tasks.
Jeffrey Byrne is President & CEO of Jeffrey Byrne & Associates, Inc. The firm has led successful campaigns for many organizations, among them a rapidly increasing number of senior living clients whom he has assisted in donor research, community readiness assessment, planned giving, capital, endowment and major gifts campaigns and grant writing.
Sharon Brooks is the CEO of SB&A Integrated Marketing, a marketing and advertising firm with almost 30 years of experience in the senior living field and the capacity to create meaningful messages and materials to support fund development.
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Continuing on our commitment to offer the most comprehensive services to our clients, JB&A maintains a strategic partnership with Wild Associates, Inc. Wild Associates provides planned giving resources to the nonprofit community through Single-Source Advancement Network.
Single-Source Advancement Network represents one of the first organizations to place historically scattered services and products for planned giving and development under one program. Single-Source Planned Giving Services is a consortium of firms and professionals that represent decades of professional experience in all aspects of planned giving.
Led by Payson S. Wild, Jr., CFRE, Wild Associates can help nonprofits maximize the full potential of a planned giving program. With over 30 years of broad fundraising experience, Payson and his network of experts add great value to JB&A strategic partnerships.
Contact Payson Wild at 847-492-8165 or eEmail: paysonwild@comcast.net.
H Eugene Dooley & Associates
Former President & CEO of the YMCA of Greater Kansas City and Executive Director, YMCA Foundation of Mid America, Gene serves as a YMCA fundraising advisor for Jeffrey Byrne & Associates.
Known nationally throughout the Association for his expertise in resource development and membership, Gene has served the YMCA in Orlando and Fort Meyers, Florida; Mobile, Alabama and Kansas City, Missouri.
During his tenure in Kansas City, the YMCA has shown significant growth including membership increases from 6,100 to 94,530 members, and program participants increasing from 41,000 to 381,000 individuals.
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Samdahl & Associates
Hospital and Health Care professional consulting, Samdahl & Associates, headquartered in Colorado, specializes in managing and fundraising for Oncology.
President Tracey Samdahl brings decades of experience in directing organizations to strong financial performance by decisive leadership, excellent relationship building and communication skills at all levels and with the community at large. The firm excels in strategic planning and business plan development and implementation as well as structuring grassroots collaborations for increased efficiency in community fundraising projects.

Armed with 30+ years of experience and knowledge, SB&A and its partner company Brooks Adams Research (BAR) have served hundreds of clients with a systems-based approach to marketing and a comprehensive array of services.
Over the years, SB&A has successfully worked in a variety of sectors, including tourism, senior living, destination retirement communities, real estate, health care, economic development, non-profit initiatives and more. SB&A's turnkey services are designed to make real what clients envision, and both firms are capable of working with a variety of partners, including boards, development teams and organizations large and small.
SB&A's involvement has been instrumental in helping our clients to achieve their goals in a diversity of projects by effectively launching various public relations and community initiatives that have educated audiences about fundraising campaigns, public awareness and community outreach services.
SB&A recently worked with the Robins Foundation in Richmond, Virginia, providing public relations, marketing materials and event planning and coordination for the groundbreaking event of its $6.5 million state-of-the-art project.
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