NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT & PARTNERSHIPS
Your nonprofit needs funding. But where should you actually focus?
I'm Jen. I help nonprofits identify their strongest fundraising opportunities, build a clear strategy to pursue them, and provide the hands-on development support to put that strategy into action.
The Funding Strategy Sprint
A clear 90-day plan: which funding areas to focus on now, and the specific donors, corporate partners and grants to go after first, researched and named.
$1,000 flat fee · Delivered in two weeks
Recent client results
$50K
Foundation grant won for a disability services nonprofit
20%
Increase in new donors from an individual giving campaign for a family services nonprofit
25%
Membership growth in one month for an environmental nonprofit
200%
Increase in active donor leads for a financial empowerment nonprofit
A good fit
Built for nonprofits with fundraising potential — but no capacity to pursue it.
Maybe fundraising has plateaued, or you're relying too heavily on one funding source. You know there are opportunities you're missing, and you need a new game plan, but you aren't sure where to start.
You don't necessarily need to hire someone for that.
You may just need someone to step in, look at the whole picture, and show you where to focus.
What I do
Fundraising isn't one-size-fits-all.
The answer isn't always "more grants." I look across your entire development operation to identify where your strongest opportunities actually are — then prioritize what deserves your time, money, and attention. Need help implementing the strategy? I can do that too.
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Major Donor Strategy
I find the donors you're overlooking (they may already be in your CRM), rate and prioritize them, and build a cultivation plan for each one. Then I prepare and coach your team through every conversation and ask, and help you turn each gift into the next one.
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Individual Giving Campaigns
I design and run campaigns that turn supporters into donors: segmented appeals, email sequences, optimized giving pages, and welcome and stewardship journeys. Whether it's year-end or a push for a new initiative, I build every goal from your own data and every campaign to earn the second gift.
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Corporate Partnerships
I build corporate pipelines based on genuine fit and aligned missions. Drawing on 20 years of selling media partnerships to major brands, I find companies with real reasons to say yes, learn what they're trying to achieve, and create custom proposals and pitch materials around their goals. Then I support your team through every pitch and renewal.
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Grants & Institutional Funding
I have a proven research process to uncover the best-fit grant opportunities you might be missing, scored on fit and return on your time. You can then write and submit the grants yourself, or bring me on to write the full application, budget and reports for you.
Read a few of my grants →05
Monthly Giving & Donor Engagement
Your most loyal supporters are your most valuable. I help you understand who they really are, then build monthly giving programs, donor profiles and engagement journeys that speak to each group in a way that moves them, so people keep giving long after their first gift.
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Development Operations & CRM
A stronger operation makes every fundraising effort work harder. I'll audit your CRM and clean up your data, speed up how gifts are processed and thanked, build dashboards your team and board will actually use, and recommend tools that save you time. I've worked in Salesforce, HubSpot, Bloomerang, and more.
About me
I help mission-driven organizations find and close their funding.
I lead development projects for nonprofits focused on issues like disability services, financial empowerment, healthcare, arts education, the environment, and family services.
Why I'm good at this: before nonprofit work, I sold partnerships for companies like The New York Times and HuffPost, closing six- and seven-figure deals with brands like Dell, IBM, and P&G. Corporate partners and major donors decide the same way brand partners do: on fit, trust, and a clear ask. Building that pipeline and making that ask is what I've always done.
Now I do it for organizations I genuinely admire.
Services
Start with the $1,000 Funding Strategy Sprint.
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Funding Strategy Sprint
Get an actionable strategy in two weeks. I assess all six areas where your revenue can grow and tell you which to focus on now, which to build toward, and which to set aside, and why. You don't get a list of suggestions; you get specific, researched opportunities you can start acting on immediately.
What's included:
- A Funding Strategy Report: your current revenue mix, strengths and gaps
- A Focus Rating for each of six areas (major donors, individual giving, corporate partnerships, grants, monthly giving and donor engagement, and development operations): Focus Now, Build Next or Not Now, with the reasoning
- A Top Prospect Shortlist: up to 10 qualified foundations, corporate partners or donor relationships, researched and named
- An existing-relationship review: the giving potential already sitting in your donor, sponsor and board networks
- A fundraising readiness check: gaps in your case for support, outcomes data, CRM practices and grant readiness
- A prioritized 90-Day Fundraising Roadmap, plus a Strategy Session to walk through the findings together
$1,000 flat fee. Delivered in two weeks. No retainer required.
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Implementation & Fractional Development
Once you know what to go after, take the plan and run with it, or bring me in to put it to work. The Sprint is the natural starting point: implementation picks up exactly where its recommendations leave off. Hire me for one area, or keep me on as your fractional development director to lead the whole function.
How we can work together:
- Major Donor Strategy: finding and prioritizing major-gift prospects, and coaching your team through every cultivation step and ask
- Individual Giving Campaigns: appeals, email sequences and giving pages built to convert and retain donors
- Corporate Partnerships: a researched pipeline and custom proposals, from prospecting through pitch
- Grants & Institutional Funding: well-researched, well-matched applications that raise your win rate
- Monthly Giving & Donor Engagement: recurring giving programs and journeys that keep donors giving
- Development Operations & CRM: clean data, faster gift processing and dashboards your team will use
- Fractional development director: ongoing, month-to-month leadership of your entire development operation
Custom to every engagement — project-based, hourly, or a monthly retainer. Always at a fair rate well under a full-time hire.
How I use AI
AI proficiency is my competitive edge.
I leverage it for speed, depth, efficiency, and volume behind the scenes. With donors, I bring only my most authentic, human self.
AI HANDLES
- ▸Research
- ▸Prospect scoring
- ▸Grant tracking
- ▸CRM analysis
AI NEVER TOUCHES
- ▸Donor conversations
- ▸Outreach emails
- ▸Appeals or thank-yous
- ▸Anything a donor reads or hears
From the blog
From my blog.
All posts →How to grow funding, engage donors, and maximize your development efforts.