David P. Landers

Helping Nonprofits Join Communications and Fundraising

With more than 25 years as a director and consultant in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors along with experience as a freelance writer and family caregiver, I offer seasoned expertise, strong skills and honest counsel.

My services integrate communications and fundraising efforts into realistic and work-able solutions that 

Deepen Donor Engagement

Maximize Organizational Capacity

Bridge Internal Gaps

Strategy evaluation, development and execution

Counsel and collaboration

Communications audit

Donor copywriting, content creation, management and distribution

Project management

411 Seniors Centre

Access Pro Bono/Everyone Legal Clinic

BC Hospitality & Community Foundation

Beverley McLachlin Access to Justice Fund

The Bloom Group/May's Place Hospice

Burnaby Hospital Foundation

Humane Canada

Lionsview Seniors' Planning Society

Registered Nurses Foundation of BC

Silver Harbour Seniors Centre

Sunshine Coast Hospice

Take A Hike Foundation

Over the past three decades, I have collaborated with and learned from some of the most innovative and inspiring nonprofits and foundations in Canada and the United States.

For six years, I was the associate with LOVEfundraising, a small consultancy in Vancouver that provided strategic fundraising and philanthropy services to Canadian nonprofits. Before that, I worked sixteen years with Philanthropy Northwest, a Seattle-based association of 150+ private and public foundations, corporate giving programs and individual donors across the Pacific Northwest, including seven years as its deputy director. I am also a published freelance writer and served as a family caregiver for my father.

I have completed over a dozen long-distance triathlon, running and swim races and currently focus on healthy midlife aging. Every day, I wake up grateful to live with my husband between the Coast Mountains and Burrard Inlet in beautiful Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada.

What distinguishes David is his combination of fundraising, philanthropy and communications expertise and real-world experience. He gets it. David’s strategies and writing contributed to the success of LOVEfundraising’s ability to serve clients, and he did it all with an insightful and positive approach, balancing the many factors at play as a consultant. Collaborating with David for six years has been a wise, rewarding choice for me and my clients.

-David Love, CFRE, Principal, LOVEfundraising