My Work
Past & Current Clients
Communications & Project Management Support
Led Cedarmere Foundation’s communication efforts to document the foundation’s work and legacy over its 18 years of grantmaking, including interviews with all foundation trustees, past funded community partners, and other key stakeholders to create a final publication highlighting the journey and lessons learned - Investing in Capacity Building: Lessons from the Cedarmere Foundation.
Collaborated with Third Sector New England to provide grant writing capacity-building support through workshops, coaching, and developing a series of tools and resources for a coalition of organizations in the Greater Boston area supporting the Haitian immigrant community.
Served in interim communications role during staff transition, performing communications audit, maintaining ongoing functions, supporting annual gala, and helping to hire and onboard new communications staff.
Launched grant program in collaboration with GOKiC leadership to grow the organization’s reach in working toward its mission to liberate BIPOC youth through technology education; with ongoing support to lead grant writing efforts, develop grant management protocols, and create content for fundraising campaigns and other communications.
Wrote summary reports to communicate Perigee Fund’s impact in advancing effective strategies among organizations at the community and national levels to strengthen the infant and early childhood mental health and maternal mental health fields, and address emergent and ongoing needs of expectant families and families with young children.
Supported process of updating grantmaking protocols and forms.
Provided communications and project support including writing strategic plan, editorial planning, content development for annual Bridge Conference, and support in administering the Washington Nonprofit Youth Development Relief Fund and the 2021 and 2022 Summer Program Funds.
University Christian Church Legacy Foundation
Served as Interim Managing Director working closely with the Board to support the process of hiring and onboarding a permanent Managing Director, the Foundation’s first staff position; and helping to launch the Foundation’s first grant cycle, working with the Grants Committee to research and finalize a list of organizations aligned to the Foundation’s mission to apply for funds, create a streamlined grant proposal form, and support the process of reviewing and making final award decisions resulting in $390,000 in grants to organizations supporting youth and families in the King County region.
Researched new prospects and supported grant writing for conservation, early learning, youth development, and other priority areas. Wrote narrative for campaign initiative concept papers and other materials, primarily supporting education & early learning efforts.
Danielle is a member of Mightier, a small, woman-owned consultancy with a big network. With the Mightier team, Danielle helped to write the King County Best Starts for Kids Annual Report in 2019 and 2020.
Grant Writing, Grant Management, and General Fund Development Planning & Support
Foundation for Youth Resiliency and Engagement
Northwest School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children
Partners for Youth Empowerment
Puget Sound Educational Service District
Communication Work Samples
The following are recent examples of publications and impact stories from my tenure at School’s Out Washington.
*Please feel free to contact Danielle at db@daniellebaerconsulting.com to request additional writing samples.
Testimonials
“Danielle’s development, organizational, and grant writing skills helped create a sustainable development plan for our startup nonprofit that included a mixture of grant writing, communications, reporting, and overall direction. As a Black, Indigenous, People of Color led organization that centers on racial justice and equity in tech education, Danielle has successfully been able to balance writing out the impact of our work in a way that foundations and donors can understand what we do while intersecting her experience to create a successful development plan that centers our voice. Danielle is very organized, completes all planned work on time, and is very easy to work with. If you have a chance to work with her, you won’t be disappointed. ”
“It was great working with Danielle! She was open to discussing the project and how to best assist us, and was flexible to meet our organization’s needs. Additionally Danielle is very organized and methodical. She met all the aims for our project in a timely manner. Great communication skills. ”
“Danielle is an amazing collaborative partner who is solutions oriented. Danielle can move a group from strategic viewpoint to actionable steps that lead to results. Her strong analytical skills result in compelling communication materials and successful grant proposals. Danielle is a dedicated professional who brings clear thinking and generous spirit to all of her work. She tackles complex work with ease and her confident, calm demeanor make her a valued team player.”
“Having had the chance to work with Danielle in several capacities and a myriad of projects, I am impressed by her strong communication and collaboration skills. This includes developing cohesive and powerful messages and content, telling stories at a personal and systems level, as well as being able to put together a strong work plan to ensure thorough and high-quality delivery of deliverables. Danielle also has a strong background in media relations and development. It is a pleasure working with Danielle and I look forward to working with her in the future.”
“Danielle has been working as a consultant with our team for several months now and I can’t say enough about how valuable her work has been and what a pleasure it is to work with her. She has taken on a variety of different grant proposals, award applications and general writing projects for us and she has a special talent for taking very basic information, even on topics and themes she may not be familiar with, and transforming it into a well-articulated narrative that makes a compelling request for funding. She is organized, efficient, professional and really a joy to work with – I highly recommend her consulting services.”
“Finding Danielle was like finding a gem on the beach. Not only is she a pleasure to work with, Danielle’s writing is impeccable. She identified and secured funding from new grant sources, which we would never have found on our own. Working with Danielle was one of the best fundraising investments PYE made! ”
“Danielle was great to work with! It is evident when working with her that she is very knowledgeable of the grant realm and at the same time understands the hard work community members, nonprofit, and CBO’s do within our communities and the challenges we face in grant applications. Because of this, she is adaptable and understanding when working with me when we applied for funding. I highly recommend her to work with as a grant consultant.”