Served as the Director of Development, securing funding (through grants, events, major gifts, and individual giving campaigns) since 2022.
Over the last two years, we have revamped their individual giving program, with attention towards creating regularly scheduled campaigns (spring and fall) to help with yearly cashflow. We also create a campaign template that the organization can use to easily personalize appeals, creating custom levels for different levels of donors and to create a more friendly approach to individual giving.
Working with content from their original Wix website, we did a light rebrand of the Evanston CASE (community, advocacy, support and education) website.
We added in new graphics, created a new palette, put in some edited (to match their new palette) stock photography, gave them a new payment processor and a much more modern donation interface, and overhauled their back end to make it easy for staff to make edits.
Evanston CASE Website

We collaborated with Foothills Food Bank, located in Phoenix, AZ, to support the development of an individual giving program. This organization had not previously employed a development professional and had been successfully fundraising, including running a capital campaign, with limited resources.
Our team conducted a data analysis covering individual giving from 2016 to 2024, which helped them identify giving patterns, create a list of their top 100 major donor prospects, and recognize their most loyal donors.
Since our partnership, they successfully completed their capital campaign for a new building and have appointed their first Innovation and Development Director.

In 2024, we helped Evanston Present & Future and Mari Enterprises with logistics, sponsorships, and graphic for the Juneteenth Parade. We helped close $20,000 of sponsorships in a little over six weeks, coordinated communications, designed collateral (t-shirts, banners, social media assets), and staged the parade, working with the City of Evanston, civic divisions of local government (police, streets & sanitation, etc.), and more than 40 local businesses and organizations.
In late 2024, as per our suggestion for the sponsorship timeline, we started soliciting last year’s sponsors and building a pipeline for the 2025 parade. from December 2024 - February 2025, we sent four rounds of solicitations, built the 2025 presentation decks for Evanston City Council & Sponsors, updated the website, and closed 25% of the amount of 2024 sponsorships six months earlier than in previous years. This included renewing 12 from last year, 1 lapsed, and 3 new sponsors.
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Served as the Director of Development, securing funding (through grants, events, major gifts, and individual giving campaigns) from 2016-2018
Created their individual giving program, doubling year end results in my first year. Also earned more than 50% of the annual fund goal in 36 hours with a social media #GivingTuesday campaign that encouraged and inspired a number of donors who hadn’t given in years to make a gift.
Hit goal for annual gala and created an immersive donor experience through the use of archival materials, such as the triptych of Babette Mangolte’s Roof Piece, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. since the 1970’s and which garnered acquisition interest from the Museum of Modern Art.
Maintained a robust grants portfolio, connecting the company with funding and writing grants for NYSCA, DCA, NEA and all other major dance funders in NYC.

Served as the Director of Development, securing funding (through grants, events, major gifts, and individual giving campaigns) from 2020-2021
Built upon their individual giving program, doubling year-end results in my first year. Successfully solicited and closed the most significant gift in the school’s history, totaling $844,000.
Pivoted the annual gala online, producing Academy Night Live, a full-evening live broadcast with 16 cameras on four floors that made $400,000 and purchased broadcast quality equipment for the school.

We served as an interim Director of Development immediately preceding and during the first six months of the Chicago Reader’s transition from for-profit to non-profit newsroom. In this role, we built their individual giving program, created them a Salesforce database, and conceived, planned and executed their 50th Anniversary “Un-Gala” (pictured above at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.)
Raised $100,000 and attracted more than 1,000 guests to the Museum of Contemporary Art for the Chicago Reader’s 50th Anniversary Un-Gala. This event included a whole museum takeover with music, dance, djs, theater, performance art and variety entertainment from the Best of Chicago. (Pictured above: Stage setup on the second floor and DJ booth on the third floor balcony, early in the evening.)
Ran the newsmagazine’s first-ever nonprofit individual giving campaign that generated $60K for the Chicago Reader over six weeks.
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