Fundraising

Let’s design a strategy that builds on your strengths and nurtures meaningful relationships to generate revenue. I approach fundraising as a community organizer. How do we identify and cultivate relationships with partners who share our goals, values, or visions? These can be private grantors, government agencies, high-net-worth individuals, partner organizations, low-income community members, or more.

15

Years of experience

100

Partners and clients

87%

Grant success rate

Successes

Grant Strategy, Research, and Writing

Grant Strategy & Research

I help build integrated strategies by teaching your team how to think like a fundraiser. This begins by analyzing your existing programs, funding sources, and strategic plan to create a SWOT analysis. Then, I work from a strengths-based approach to create a report with a ranked list of strategies after assessing possible revenue streams, industry trends, and competing organizations. I present to your leadership, and we decide on a course of action, which I craft into a comprehensive fundraising strategy with actionable steps. I am available for a free check-in to answer questions or adapt the strategy within 30 days.

You will leave with:

  • A fundraising-specific SWOT analysis

  • A report assessing possible revenue streams, industry trends, and competition monitoring

  • A professionally designed fundraising strategy with actionable steps for staff

  • One-hour follow-up consultation

Grant Writing

I have been awarded highly competitive grants and understand how to write marketable proposals that conform to specific funder requirements in the following areas:

  • Social justice grants (especially racial equity, health, LGBTQ+, immigration, and environmental justice)

  • Arts & Humanities grants

  • Research grants

  • Conference or convening grants

Proposal Review

If you are on a shoestring budget, write your own proposal, and I’ll review it. You’ll get an outsider's perspective to help clarify your ideas and learn about your strengths and weaknesses from a funder’s perspective. I will quickly improve word choice (using specific funder nomenclature), make the argument more persuasive, and improve sentence structure.

Collaborating with André for values-based fundraising was exactly what we needed during the pandemic and racial justice awakenings of 2020. His support set the stage for our organization to re-engage individual donors and prepare to meet new institutions that would commit to supporting our work for years to come.

— Janel Belovette Jenkins, Co-Executive Director of LA Black Worker’s Center

From My Clients

“I’ve been a professional fundraiser for 20 years and enlisted André for grant-writing support. He helped streamline our collaboration with his thoughtful, organized, and efficient approach. We got 80% of the grants we applied for together, and I was relieved to have a reliable partner. I wholeheartedly recommend working with him if you want to take your work to the next level.”

— Dawn Valdez, Director of Youth and Artistic Development at Bay Area Video Coalition

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Book a Consultation

Book a free 45-minute consultation to discuss your organization’s needs today. We’ll send you information about our services and homework to maximize your consultation.