Borich Hernandez Solutions
Borich Hernandez Solutions helps fresh candidates and competitive challengers raise the money they need to win — from state legislative races to U.S. Senate. If your campaign needs to raise at least $1 million, we should talk.
Who we work with
We work with fresh Democratic candidates and challengers in competitive primaries and red-to-blue districts. Our clients are the candidates who haven't done this before at this level — who've never run call time, never recruited a finance committee, never sat across the table from a major donor — and who are running campaigns serious enough to need to raise seven figures or more.
We've worked at every level: Governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, statewide constitutional offices, State Senate, State Representative, County Council, and City Council. We know what each of those races actually costs to win, and we know how to get you there.
Millions raised
for Democratic candidates
20+ years
in competitive campaigns
Every level
from City Council to U.S. Senate
Robin Carnahan for U.S. Senate
Call time program responsible for the majority of campaign fundraising.
Jay Nixon for Governor
Major donor and donor prospecting programs.
Jason Kander for Secretary of State
Outraised three Republican opponents combined and outraised incumbent statewide Democrats.
Claire McCaskill for U.S. Senate (2012)
Volunteer recruitment program that set national records.
Plus campaigns for Congress, gubernatorial races, mayoral races, and competitive state legislative seats across the country.
What we do
Three pieces of the same job, done well. Curate the donors. Coach the candidate. Streamline the operation that turns the work into pledges and pledges into checks.
Curate
Research and Network Analysis
We map your network and your finance committee's networks against nonprofit boards, alumni associations, philanthropic giving, and political contribution patterns. The goal is donors with capacity, propensity, and a real reason to support your candidacy.
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Coach
The Pitch
We work directly with candidates through their early calls — when uncertainty is highest — and keep coaching as the program scales. What to ask, how to handle the maybe, when to push, when to follow up. A confident, well-prepared candidate raises substantially more.
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Streamline
Call Time Operations
Effective call time is a system, not a personality. Call sheets aligned to the plan, a staffer running the room, follow-up that turns pledges into checks. Most operations lose 20–40% of pledged dollars to bad follow-up. Ours don't.
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Methodology
Most fundraising operations start with a list pulled from a database. We start earlier than that.
For every campaign, we map your network and your finance committee's networks against nonprofit boards, alumni associations, philanthropic giving records, and political contribution patterns. The goal is to find donors who have both the capacity to give and a real reason to support your candidacy — not just names that show up in a search.
This is research that, at most consulting firms, gets handed to a junior staffer with a database subscription. We do it ourselves, for every client.
Case study
When Jason Kander ran for Missouri Secretary of State in 2012, he was a state representative running for statewide office for the first time, against a crowded Republican primary field. His campaign needed to raise enough money to compete statewide — and to do it efficiently enough to leave resources for the general.
Shawn led the fundraising operation. The campaign outraised all three Republican opponents combined. It outraised incumbent Democratic statewide officeholders. And it ran efficiently enough that the campaign had the resources it needed to win in November.
Fresh candidates routinely underestimate what's possible in their first race. We don't.
Also from our team
We also build tools.democrat — a suite of software products that run fundraising, budget tracking, donor prospecting, and call time for Democratic campaigns. Built for candidates whose races are smaller than our consulting work but who still need professional infrastructure.
Raise Rate
Fundraising plan and weekly accountability memo
Prospector
Match names against FEC giving history to find hidden donors
DonorDialer
Call time on the iPad the candidate already carries
Votes & Notes
Run fundraising events end to end
Burn Rate
Live budget tracking with ActBlue ingestion
If you are considering a run — or advising someone who is — the first conversation is a 30-minute call to understand the race and what it will take.
The earlier the better. Most of the candidates we have worked with started planning six to twelve months before announcing. Fundraising is a long-tail discipline — the work that pays off in October starts in March.
