Fundraising services
Are you looking for help growing your nonprofit, raising more revenue for your mission, writing grant proposals, or engaging your board in fundraising? Maybe you’re overworked, overwhelmed, and looking for a someone to help you reverse engineer a plan to accomplish your critical mission. Let me help.
Raise More Revenue
Fundraising is both an art and a science. You need to appeal to both the head and the heart of the donor, all while creating a clear plan AND staying nimble and responsive.
No wonder it’s overwheming for many people! I can help you create operations plans for annual campaigns, major donors, individual donor pipelines, executive front-line fundraising, and events.
Grant research and writing is a specialty. Corporate Foundation, Family Foundation, and Government applications are all read by different audiences and have different metrics they’re looking for, be sure you’re highlighting the right parts of your programs and mission! Another grant writing service offered is “boilerplate” language creation - more general language that can be used for a variety of applications moving forward. Building a strong boilerplate folder is a great way to increase grant application capacity moving forward.
Engage Your Board
Your Board can be your greatest strength (but also, we know, the source of many headaches). From plans and strategy for recruitment, retention, and governance, through to the all-important fundraising training, I can help your Board feel empowered to be champions for you and your mission. How different would it be if your Board was truly engaged, activating their networks and both friend- and fund-raising for you wherever they go?
Coaching
Especially if you’re building a new nonprofit, or working in a small shop, sometimes nonprofit work can be lonely. Coaching can help you gain perspective, celebrate what you’re already doing well, and learn a few tips and tricks to ensure your efforts have maximum impact.
Presentations and Group Training
In addition to one-on-one fundraising planning, board engagement, or coaching, I present on fundraising, philanthropy, volunteerism, Board of Directors, and nonprofits with groups. Whether it’s a Board engagement seminar or a grant writing training, I facilitate groups using interactive workshops and adult learning best practices.
Major Donor life-cycle management, and coaching on “making the ask”
Grantwriting, grant research, and boilerplate creation
Board engagement and fundraising training
Fundraising planning (and execution)
Annual fund/Individual donor development
Fundraising staff and team coaching
Special events - from houseparties to galas
Sometimes raising money can feel like trying to make something grow in barren ground.
But with the right bright idea, a clear plan, and some hard work, it can grow!
clients
Strategic planning, fundraising, grant writing, and coaching for Tandem, Partners in Early Learning, an early learning nonprofit working to ensure all families have the resources, skills, and confidence they need to support their children’s kindergarten readiness.
Presenter at Nonprofit Learning Lab. Topics include: “What are funders really asking for? Diagramming grant application questions for maximum results”
Institutional relations, grant research and writing for Always Dream Foundation, founded by Kristi Yamaguchi, focused on building awareness around the importance of in-home reading and on empowering low-income families with the tools necessary to level the playing field.
Strategic planning, marketing, and fundraising coaching for Yu Ming Charter School, the first K-8 Mandarin immersion charter school in California.
Institutional relations, boilerplate creation and editing, and grant research and writing for Jewish Vocational Services (JVS), the Bay Area's leading nonprofit helping people to build in-demand skills and find good jobs.
As the Advancement Chair on the National Programs Committee, provides mentorship and support to each of the Advancement Chairs of the 50 chapters around the country, creating templates and resources, training documents, and facilitating monthly calls.
Strategic planning, marketing, and fundraising support for international nonprofit that drives development and adoption of practical digital imaging and preservation solutions for people passionate about saving humanity's treasures today, before they are lost.
Strategic, operations, and fundraising planning, plus grantwriting, program development, and executive coaching support for a new financial literacy nonprofit working to ensure everyone has the financial tools necessary to lead a successful future.