Nonprofit Communications & Donor Engagement
Refugee & Immigration Systems
Board & Organizational Development
Emerging Initiative Funding Strategy
Community Development & Capital Strategy
PORTFOLIO
Selected advancement, funding strategy, organizational development, communications, and systems work
SELECTED CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS
Peck Advisory Group | 2020–Present
Selected engagements are anonymized where client confidentiality or the nature of the work makes public identification inappropriate.
Public-Interest Legal Initiative
Women-Led Community Development | El Salvador
INTEGRATED ADVANCEMENT & FUNDRAISING
Band of Angels | Embedded Consulting Engagement | 2023
Served as embedded Program & Community Engagement Director during a Peck Advisory Group engagement, with responsibility spanning fundraising, donor cultivation, sponsorship, communications, public-figure engagement, stewardship, event strategy, board recruitment, and development operations.
Led Art That Blows, the organization’s signature fundraising and community event, while concurrently managing multiple advancement and engagement initiatives.
Selected work
- Led strategy and execution for Art That Blows, serving approximately 1,000 attendees
- Managed auction operations through OneCause
- Coordinated artists, vendors, volunteers, staff, and event logistics
- Managed sponsor visibility and recognition
- Developed donor and constituent communications
- Created and executed the Rockstars campaign, engaging local and regional public figures to expand organizational reach
- Coordinated media and community-facing outreach
- Strengthened donor acknowledgment and stewardship practices
- Introduced personalized handwritten stewardship for instrument donors
- Cultivated an instrument donor relationship that resulted in a significant individual gift within approximately two weeks
- Supported Spencer Fane scholarship stewardship and recognition
- Supplied program data, stories, and photography for institutional fundraising
- Participated in board recruitment and relationship development
- Created improved inventory and operational systems
Platforms
OneCause · Keela
Work represented
Major Gifts · Integrated Campaigns · Stewardship · Sponsorship · Events · Communications · Community Engagement · Development Operations
Developing strategy and funding infrastructure for an emerging public-interest legal initiative encompassing worker justice, environmental law, and civil rights.
Deliverables and work
- Initial strategic plan
- Funding strategy
- Funder and prospect research
- Pilot-scope development
- Program architecture
- Positioning and case development
- Leadership decision support
- Sequencing of organizational and funding priorities
Ongoing collaboration with women community leaders on locally directed development and resource strategy.
Deliverables and work
- Funding and resource-development strategy
- Community needs and asset assessment
- Partnership development
- Organizational advising
- Collaboration with local leadership
- Development of institutional and educational partnerships, including collaboration with a nursing school in San Salvador
Consulting work supporting refugee intake, asylum matters, and immigration-related systems.
Deliverables and work
- Intake and assessment system design
- Structured assessment tools
- Expert written reports
- Professional consultation for legal matters
- Expert testimony
- Translation of complex psychosocial information into materials usable by attorneys and decision-makers
Supported an animal-welfare organization with constituent communications and audience development.
Deliverables and work
- Direct-email campaigns
- Social-media campaigns
- Donor-facing messaging
- Communications strategy
- Campaign planning
- Audience engagement
Advised nonprofit leadership on governance, organizational development, fundraising participation, and board effectiveness.
Deliverables and work
- Board-development strategy
- Governance advising
- Board recruitment
- Major-gift coaching
- Prospect strategy
- Relationship mapping
- Donor-conversation preparation
- Solicitation planning
- Stewardship strategy
Developed an initial funding strategy for a developing mission-driven CTE initiative.
Deliverables and work
- Funding landscape assessment
- Revenue pathway development
- Prospect categories
- Funder positioning
- Recommended sequence of funding activity
- Near-term development priorities
Advisory work for an emerging Kansas City community-development concept requiring philanthropic strategy to complement a larger capital stack.
Work underway
- Philanthropic positioning
- Case development
- Community-benefit framing
- Identification of funding pathways that complement rather than duplicate project finance
- Development of materials for stakeholder and funder conversations
Work represented
MAJOR-GIFT & BOARD CAPACITY BUILDING
Advised nonprofit executives, staff, and board members on relationship-based fundraising and major-gift strategy.
Selected work
- Prospect identification and prioritization
- Relationship mapping
- Cultivation strategy
- Donor-conversation preparation
- Ask preparation
- Solicitation planning
- Stewardship strategy
- Board fundraising coaching
- Staff capacity building
- Board recruitment and development
DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Systems, Data & Advancement Operations
Platforms
Salesforce · Keela · OneCause
Selected work
- Donor segmentation
- Constituent tracking
- Stewardship workflows
- Development SOPs
- Prospect organization
- Campaign tracking
- Auction systems
- Donor acknowledgment processes
- Development reporting
- Board fundraising tools
- Resource and inventory systems
STRATEGY, COMMUNICATIONS & PROGRAM DESIGN
Selected Work Products
- Funding strategies
- Strategic plans
- Logic models
- Grant narratives and reports
- Funder and prospect research
- Prospect frameworks
- Case and positioning materials
- Needs and asset assessments
- Program designs
- Outcome frameworks
- Evaluation structures
- Board materials
- Executive briefing materials
- Donor communications
- Stewardship materials
- Campaign messaging
- Direct-response email
- Sponsor recognition
- Public-facing organizational content
- Program narratives and impact stories
LEADERSHIP, SUPERVISION & CAPACITY BUILDING
KU School of Social Welfare | Field Instructor | 2014–2018
Supervised graduate social-work practicum students, connecting graduate education with professional practice, organizational systems, ethics, evaluation, and community-based work.
Across Organizations and Engagements
- Staff supervision
- Graduate practicum supervision
- Board advising
- Cross-functional leadership
- Volunteer leadership
- Community partnership development
- Program quality and accountability
- Organizational systems design
- Executive and leadership advising