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 - $460,000 in 1 year
Government - $95,000, 43% increase
Private Foundation - $112,000, 72% increase
Large Gifts from Individual Donors - $253,000, 30% increase
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
Total Money Raised - $460,000 in 1 year
Government - $95,000, 43% increase
Private Foundation - $112,000, 72% increase
Large Gifts from Individual Donors - $253,000, 30% increase
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
- 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
- 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)
