I help nonprofits join communications and fundraising together, so their good works last.

I provide strategies and products that enable nonprofits to communicate their value and achieve fundraising goals.  

My solutions accelerate a client's communications and fundraising efforts, and I combine competency, knowledge and creativity with respect for the nonprofit’s work.

Smart Thinking

• Integrating communications and fundraising: goal setting; research, audit and analysis; recommendations and work plans; metrics and evaluations
• Developing and implementing communications strategies and tools targeting fundraising challenges
• Making nonprofit's story easy to understand and support via aligned messages, tools, practices and programs
• Recommending innovative and realistic ways to use resources and manage gaps in communications and fundraising

Quality Writing

• Online content: website, blog and social media
• Strategic plan
• Annual report
• Direct mail
• Campaign and donor material
• Special report
• Brochure and promotional material
• Newsletter
• Case for support and collateral
• Grants: LOI, proposal, application and report
• Annual appeal
• Sponsorship proposal

For six years, I was the associate with LOVEfundraising, a small consultancy in Vancouver that provided strategic fundraising and philanthropy services to Canadian nonprofits. 

• Developing and executing fundraising and communication strategies
• Providing interim in-house fundraising/communications staffing
• Assisting with campaign resource/feasibility studies, interviews and recommendation reports
• Writing cases for support and donor collateral
• Managing grants process, from applications to final reports
  

Before that, I served seven years as deputy director for Philanthropy Northwest, a Seattle-based nonprofit network of 200+ private and public foundations, corporate giving programs and individual donors across the Pacific Northwest. 

• Managing multi-year organizational expansion in programming, financial resources and operations
• Leading fundraising campaigns that resulted in over $2 million from individuals, foundations and corporations
• Cultivating strategic relationships with board members, sponsors, public policy officials and community stakeholders
• Building relationships among donor and Indigenous communities
  

I prioritize projects with grassroots to mid-sized nonprofits and customize my engagement to the client’s capacities and opportunities.

Clients count on me as a flexible and professional resource at critical moments, such as staff vacancies, internal restructuring and overwhelming deadlines.

411 Seniors Centre

Access Pro Bono/Everyone Legal Clinic

BC Hospitality Foundation

Beverley McLachlin Access to Justice Fund

The Bloom Group

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