I began to redevelop Litquake Foundation's grants program in 2019, fully taking control of every function from pre-award to post-award in 2020, and have headed up donor communications since 2019. As an arts non-profit with a sub-$500,000 budget, grant sizes range from $1,000-$50,000.

Total Money Raised - $858,000 in 2 years
Full proposal success rate -  66% in 2020, 75% in 2021 

Types of Programming
Public literary and culture events, including book launches, panel discussions, spoken word poetry, film discussions, literary pub crawls, children's book events for public schools, community-building programs for the elderly.

Grantseeking

• Researched, identified, and qualified 37 prospects; submitted 25 applications (40% increase from year before)
• Refreshed boilerplate language or rewrote boilerplate language; received 14 awards
• Redesigned, developed, and managed master grants calendar to track submissions
• Wrote one-page fact sheets for five major programs to entice prospective funders

• Built new budgets for four of Litquake's major programs, three of them from scratch
• Collaborated with program managers and finance department to understand need and capacity, as well as track information necessary for reporting

Impact and Evaluation

• Redeveloped survey and data-tracking to include impact, audience segmentation, and story collection  
• Created new survey and data-tracking programs to better understand and communicate program impact to funders  
• Evaluated data for all programs and created boilerplate impact and diversity language 

Donor Communications & Relations

• Developed a quarterly Donor Newsletter program and wrote all content
• Wrote all end of year donor reports and information decks, and collaborated on their design
• Wrote all end of year and spring appeals, as well as post-event solicitations, as well as one-off decks for various fundraising campaigns 
• Collaborated on strategy for all asks to major donors ($15,000-$75,000)