I’m a long-time professional helping nonprofits and philanthropists accomplish meaningful impact for people facing adversity. My ultimate goal is to help you improve lives and end suffering around the world. I do that by supporting and informing your efforts to connect effectively and deeply with other humans: understanding how what they want and needs matches with your wants and needs so you can partner to achieve your shared goals.
Supporting Nonprofits:
- Developing fundraising plans: A to Z for new nonprofits or a fresh look at your fundraising practices if you’re ready to jump to the next level
- Developing and maintaining relationships with your funding partners (not their checkbooks)–aka stewardship–and developing plans to keep that work on track
- Creating, working with, and advancing your board of directors
- Measuring your impact from a development point of view: Why you need to be part of the conversation happening in when it comes to communicating your outcomes
- Coaching for new or less experienced directors of development and grantwriters: how to lead teams, how to support individual team members, how to harness volunteers to boost fundraising, prioritizing many important fundraising tasks based on your needs, skills, assets, and time
- Managing communications: Finding your voice, creating content for various channels, improving your storytelling, and handling all this when you’re a small team or a team of one
Supporting Institutional & Individual Philanthropists:
- Identifying possible capacity-building investments that would take a promising nonprofit to the next level and ready them for a grant from you
- Helping you define how you’ll talk about impact and outcomes, since every nonprofit measures and defines them differently, to help ensure your investments move you toward your desired vision
- Creating a scoring rubric to use when evaluating existing and potential grantees
- Reviewing grant applications
- Finding and vetting high-quality nonprofits to add to your short list of potential grantees
- General philanthropy planning: How to structure your philanthropic work so you’re an effective partner with and investor in nonprofits
I do this work via Zoom/WebEx, phone, email, and text; I’m sometimes in Orlando, Boston, and the New York City/Connecticut region. (I moved to get out of the rat race, but some of those rats are family and dear friends, so I visit.)
Certain projects require a regular human presence on site with you, and I won’t take those on. I don’t want to fail, and I don’t want you to, either.