In today’s @AvalonFYI dispatch, President Allison Porter shares an update on our work as VeraData’s lead agency—and a warm welcome to our new colleagues from Faircom New York!
Dear friends,
It was wonderful to see many of you at Bridge last week. This year’s theme, “Stronger Than the Moment,” was an inspiring and necessary focus. As always, I feel encouraged and energized to see our industry come together, share knowledge, and collaborate as peers. Thank you to everyone who made 2026 Bridge Conference a success!
For Avalon, that message of strength and looking ahead is more than just a conference theme—it reflects where we are as a company. While at Bridge, I had the opportunity to share some exciting news about our future:
As lead agency at VeraData, Avalon will integrate Faircom New York into our company and team.
The nonprofit sector needs partners who can go deeper, move faster, and make smarter decisions with better data. Avalon and Faircom New York each bring decades of trusted fundraising experience. Together, supported by VeraData’s data science and technology infrastructure, they represent the kind of agency we believe the sector needs now and in the future.
—Michael Kulpinsky, COO, VeraData
Our goal in this stage of the merger is to provide all our clients with both the continuity they deserve and the added benefit of our newly combined strengths:
- Consistency across relationships, contracts, and day-to-day points of contact, and
- Expanded access to expertise, creative and strategic resources, proprietary tools, modeling, and the full benefit of our combined, full-service capabilities.
The new Avalon brings together the personal, hands-on service clients value with deeper capabilities to help them understand and reach the people who care about their missions. That includes smarter audience insights, predictive modeling, stronger analytics, omnichannel strategy, media planning, creative testing, and AI supported by human expertise.
At the heart of it all is a simple goal: helping nonprofit organizations raise more money, build stronger relationships, and do more good.
Avalon has long admired Faircom New York because Corinne and her team have built something rare. They are incredibly talented, deeply committed to their clients, and grounded in the same belief that great fundraising requires strategy, creativity, accountability, and care. Bringing our teams together gives clients more of what matters: more collaboration, more expertise, more capability, and more ways to help them grow.
We have always believed nonprofits deserve a partner who understands the mission and stands behind the work. Avalon was built on that same belief. This next step allows our clients to maintain the relationships and trust they value while gaining access to even greater strategic depth, data intelligence, and fundraising expertise. That is the best of both worlds.
—Corinne Servily, Founder, Faircom New York
I often say that Avalon fundraisers are the best in the business. There is no team I’d rather work alongside, or that I trust more with our clients’ programs. That commitment continues as we take this step together.
To our Faircom colleagues and their amazing portfolio of nonprofit clients, welcome to the Avalon community! I am grateful and excited that we are working together.
