Contributed Line Fundraising Consultancy

We just wrapped up the 2024 Indigenous Peoples Summit! Thank you Luis Marcos , Elaina D. , Sheelah Bearfoot, MHS , and Renee Sans Souci ! I served as the event project manager and it was a beautiful day of connecting and imagining an abundant future informed by Indigenous Wisdom.

I just had a great conversation with Zachary Matheson about grants management! Thanks for reaching out, Zach!

Here are a few photos of the Inclusive Communities 2024 Humanitarian Awards at The Diamond Room! It was a lot of fun! I served as the Sponsorship Campaign Co-Manager for this event. Awardees were the late hotelier David Scott, volunteers Suzanne King & Mia Kennedy, activist Shakur Abdullah, and educator Melanie Peltz. Shout out to co-chairs Andrea Kathol Misty Homen Esther Mejia Jeneen Sagon, SSM Ryan Ellis Jonathan Taylor

Thank you Joseph Saaid for these great photos! Soon, these photos will appear on my website, but I am sharing them on Linkedin first. Being an entrepreneur means you need to arrange your own professional photos and I had lived on selfies and favors from friends for too long. The photo of me on the couch is from the Living Room at Modern Work Suites & Studios, where I office. I love being there every day and I really feel at home when I am there. The outdoor photo is from the parking lot at Modern Work, overlooking the iconic Union Pacific Railroad and Interstate 80. Getting these throughfares in the photos was important to me because they represent major transit lines in my life and the City of Omaha, my adopted home.

The Autism Center if Nebraska FY23 Annual Report drops soon! DM me if you want a copy. Otherwise … wait for the PDF! By the way, ACN’s gala is tonight in Omaha. Donate here: https://lnkd.in/g2-jwjH9

I am looking forward to seeing Donna Dostal, MPA and Catrina Trabal and others today as I present "A Practical Guide to Creating and Executing a 12-month Fundraising Work Plan" at Community Foundation for Western Iowa! We are going to talk about how to create a work plan, what you need to create one, and how to use it once it has been created! Let's goooooooooooo!!! ??????

Next week in Kearney, Nebraska, I will be presenting a workshop titled -- (deep breath) -- "The Three Lanes of Fundraising: An Essential Sensemaking Framework in a World of Short-Sighted, Tactics-Obsessed Fundraising Advice, Donor Fatigue, Worker Burnout, and Undefined Metrics of Success." How do you like THAT for a title! With heavy problems plaguing the profession of nonprofit fund development, there may be nothing so useful as a great framework, such as The Three Lanes of Fundraising, developed by my friend Jason Lewis. See you in Kearney? (It's happening the day after the eclipse, so you will have time to drive to Kearney from the Path of Totality.) https://lnkd.in/gbMrmPRE