Pronouns
she/her/hers
What do you do as a consultant/coach?
I am dedicated to assisting non-profit organizations in their efforts to raise the funds they need to do the critical work they do everyday and to enable them to achieve long-term plans and goals. I am deeply passionate about fundraising and the crucial role it plays in creating progressive social change. Groups with powerful, meaningful missions often need strategic support, training, and encouragement to build the resources they need to thrive. If your organization, staff, or board is looking to increase fundraising capacity or efficiency, is looking to expand its work or budget, or is at a major crossroads, I can work with you to assess your options and resources, lay out innovative approaches, guide you through implementation, and strengthen your organization and your fundraising abilities.
What is your approach?Â
While I possess a broad range of experience assisting non-profit and philanthropic organizations with annual fund and major donor campaigns, prospect research, grant writing, board development, fundraising training, issue research, comprehensive fundraising strategy, fundraising communications, and development coaching, the concentrated focus of my consulting is looking to work and help new clients with these core types of organizational work:
- Setting up or strengthening individual and major donor programs
- Building boards and boardmember fundraising capacity, especially with less-experienced boards or ones that are going through major transitions
- Helping with and coaching staff on their fundraising roles
- Training and setting up infrastructure for volunteer fundraisers
- Developing strong grant proposals and strengthening current cases for support
- Working with groups to identify good, new funder matches and to help them build lasting funder relations.
How has your experience/background contributed to your work?
While a youth organizer at UC Berkeley, I realized that getting the money to pay for the speakers at the big rally, or the money to publish the radical newspaper I founded, was a key way to participate in the fights for social justice. I organized with Justice for Janitors, against Prop 187, and to protect Ethnic Studies. After college, I worked at a labor union (Ironworkers Local 377) and made my way to the Horizons Foundation, an LGBT grantmaker and the Women’s Foundation and then into various nonprofits with strong social justice missions.
Relevant certifications or trainings
- 21/64 Certified Philanthropy Advisor
- Rocky Mountain Leadership Program Certificate | School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado
- Instructor | UC Berkeley Extension Philanthropy and Volunteer Management Certificate
Sample clients
Transgender Law Center, Center for Justice & Accountability,Peacock Rebellion, New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation