HunterSage Case Studies 

In partnership with strategist Sheila Terryll, HunterSage partnered with The Friends’ new leadership team to create a novel new approach to strategic planning.

With funding from the Blandin Foundation, the newly formed arts collective engaged HunterSage to help its members “become financially stronger, less reliant on contributed income or subsidies, and more sustainable in an uncertain economic climate.”

HunterSage developed a membership and rebranding campaign for a respected, nonpartisan fiscal policy organization facing declining membership and increasing competition from partisan alternatives.

This metro park district serving 10 million guests annually sought our help in achieving four goals: reduce its reliance on tax revenues, significantly increase earned revenue, cultivate sponsorship support, and develop other use-related income streams. 

Working in partnership with Economic Development Services, HunterSage helped rebuild the membership base for this nonpartisan, good-government organization under new leadership. We revamped the entire membership program and co-managed it on contract basis for eight months.

HunterSage partnered with the Fine Arts Programming staff at St. Ben’s on an ambitious, grant-funded audience development project. The project targeted two hard-to-engage audiences: disenfranchised members of the St. Cloud community and non-arts people. 

Teaming with Frost-Johnson, HunterSage helped a newly merged family practice in the East metro achieve three strategic goals: 1) grow its practice, 2) elevate its presence in a marketplace dominated by mega providers, and 3) solidify its relationships with patients and referring physicians.