Danielle May

As a seasoned development professional, I have spent the past 15 years refining and leveraging my craft as a storyteller and connector to diversify nonprofit organizations’ funding base. I aim to create a culture where mutually transformational partnerships can flourish through writing foundation, corporate, and government grant proposals; managing annual, direct mail, online, and P2P fundraising campaigns; creating excellent donor experiences; and exceeding mid-level and major donor philanthropic goals for nonprofit organizations in the education, health, human services, advocacy and policy, international maternal health and economic development, and military/veteran fields. I thrive when serving as a brainstorming partner in a collaborative and connected environment.

Core Competencies:
- Fundraising and communication strategy
- Prospect research
- Grant writing, calendaring, and reporting
- Logic models and outcome measurement
- CRMs (Salesforce, Donor Perfect, eTapestry, and Kindful)
- Donor cultivation, engagement, and stewardship

Key accomplishments:
- Executed extraordinary success rate of submitted grant applications receiving funding, with the majority securing full funding (and a few favorites who came back with requests for a revised proposal for higher ask amounts!)
- Increased international organization's grant funding by 400% and maintained 60% donor retention rate
- Improved an organization’s capacity to bring together maternal health practitioners and strategic investments from around the globe to replicate the proven model in other developing countries.
- Secured emergency funding for major health system in the aftermath of the Joplin 2011 tornado
- Collaborated on advocacy activities that led to the enactment of the National Child Protection Training Act and subsequent Congressional appropriations
- Provided overall proposal, project, contract, and financial management of government contracts totaling over $1 billion