ABOUT
Experienced fundraising leadership, right within your team.
For more than 22 years, I've worked alongside nonprofit leaders, dedicated staff, board members, and generous donors who believe in making things better. It's their commitment, and the opportunity to help them accomplish more, that keeps me doing this work.
MISSION
Helping good work go further.
My mission is simple, but it looks a little different with every organization I work with.
I choose to partner with nonprofits whose work I genuinely believe in. When we work together, your mission becomes mine, too. Whether that means expanding access to education, improving patient care, or helping families get the support they need, I'm invested in making it happen.
And my role is to find the funding, build the relationships, and put the right plans in place to help you get there.
VALUES
We’re in this together.
01
Your mission matters to me, too.
When I believe in your mission, I can advocate for your organization with genuine conviction and build meaningful relationships with the people who support it.
03
Big ambitions, realistic plans.
I believe in setting ambitious but achievable goals, being honest about what it takes to reach them, and making the most of the resources available.
02
Your expertise and mine, at the same table.
You know your organization, I know fundraising, and together we set priorities, make decisions, and put plans into action.
04
We're thinking beyond the next fundraiser.
Every grant and event contributes to something bigger: the donor relationships, systems, and practices that will support your organization for years to come.
KIND WORDS FROM CLIENTS
The people I work with say it best.
MEET CAROLYN SHARAWAY, M.S., CFRE
I knew I wanted to make a difference. I just had to figure out how.
While studying psychology in college, I worked at a group home for people living with mental illness. The residents were well cared for, but the staff often lacked the funding to give them everything they needed. I remember thinking, I want to be the person who gets the money.
So I became that person. For more than two decades, I’ve helped nonprofits of every size bring people, funding, and ideas together to accomplish remarkable things.
I started my own consulting practice for the flexibility to raise my two children, and it gave me something more: the freedom to choose organizations whose missions I believe in and stay with them for the long haul. Some of those partnerships are now approaching ten years.
Where we are now
As my practice has grown, I've had the opportunity to bring another experienced fundraiser into the mix.
Lara Winnick works alongside me, supporting our clients with grant writing, event planning, CRM management, and whatever else their fundraising priorities call for.
And the best part of it all? I still feel the same excitement when a grant is awarded, a donor says yes, or an organization can finally launch something it’s been planning for years. Each of those moments takes me back to that group home and the reason I chose this work.
