Take the
Uncharted Path
Our team and advisors have extensive experience in securing philanthropic funding for national and international nonprofits, and working with social entrepreneurs who want to improve quality of life around the world. We’re here to help you succeed in your mission.
Nonprofits
Are you a nonprofit that needs to increase your fundraising abilities, but you’re unsure where to start? At Uncharted Philanthropy, we demystify what it means to work with a fundraising consultant and specialize in supporting small – and medium – sized nonprofit organizations.
Our team and advisors offer a broad range of expertise, from an intimate understanding of funders that focus on international aid to those that prefer to make local or regional impact. Our technical knowledge for both programmatic design and funder strategy spans across many sectors, including hunger, animal welfare, poverty alleviation, access to education, and climate initiatives….to name a few.
Social Enterprises
Are you a mission-driven organization with a market-based strategy? Social enterprises include nonprofits that run income-producing businesses and for-profits that prioritize positive social impact.
Our team has watched and engaged as the donor landscape has changed over the last 15 years and knows that traditional philanthropic funders are becoming more interested in supporting social entrepreneurship – in all of its forms. We partner with social entrepreneurs to build out a compelling blended portfolio of investments that includes philanthropic support for your mission.
How Can We Help You?
Our services are designed to solve the problems facing nonprofits and social enterprises while being affordable and accessible.
Fundraising Strategy
Our team consists of experts across many technical areas and business development verticals. We use this experience to help our clients design a new fundraising strategy, as well as assist with prioritizing where to allocate limited resources.
Services and Tools
- -Benchmark assessments
- -Fundraising strategy support to CEOs and leadership teams
- -Integrated fundraising and marketing plans
- -Future staffing structure to increase fundraising revenue
- -Board engagement to expand the board’s reach
- -Donor pipeline development with related tools and resources
- -Development of diversified fundraising pathways
Written Communications
From traditional grant applications to daily donor and audience correspondence, our team is skilled at all types of writing and thoroughly enjoys developing creative and innovative ways to capture our clients’ stories and impact.
Services and Tools
- -Grant applications (public and private)
- -Major gift proposals
- -Case for support
- -Blog posts
- -Newsletters
- -Stewardship documents and reports
- -Outreach emails
Short-Term and Embedded Staffing Coverage
When you have a staffing gap, we can fill it with a short-term, no-risk employee, giving you time to understand your current and future staffing needs and ensure you are structured for success in the long run.
Services and Tools
- -Short-term support for family leave, open, or new positions
- -Ability to support multiple fundraising channels with one person or % of FTE
- -Expert daily support to current staff (includes mentorship and training)
Corporate Partnerships
We design creative corporate partnership toolkits that offer multiple engagement points with your organization while capitalizing on the brand value of both institutions, building a true collaboration that will last for years to come.
Services and Tools
- -Employee engagement opportunities
- -Master sales decks
- -One-pagers
- -Customized decks and proposals for specific partnerships
- -Partnership benefits guidelines
- -Pipeline development and outreach tools
Campaign Development
We build short-term and multi-year campaigns to motivate current and new donors to help you achieve both impact and fundraising goals.
Services and Tools
- -Personalized campaign strategy, impact goals, audiences, revenue structure, and messaging
- -Campaign naming, messaging, and visual identity
- -Support with creative assets (microsites and landing pages)
- -Master deck and outreach tools
Professional Development
Many organizations are too busy to offer professional development opportunities or even have the time to fully understand their staffing needs. We can integrate mentorship and skills development into our ongoing services, so your team advances as we raise revenue together.
Services and Tools
- -Unique mentorship plans designed for individual staff
- -Training programs for fundraising teams
Our values
We may take an uncharted path to help organizations secure philanthropic funding, but we’re guided by three core values that give us our direction.
Discovering
Uncharted Strategies
We pride ourselves on keeping up with the most recent trends in philanthropic giving for both nonprofits and social enterprises. We attend and speak at conferences, read articles, and monitor the philanthropic and impact investment space so you don’t have to.
Ensuring Accessibility
for All
We realize that high-quality consulting services can be out of reach for most small- to medium-sized nonprofits and social entrepreneurs. We’ve designed a business model that keeps costs low while continuing to have access to some of the best and brightest consultants in the industry.
A Hand-On Approach
We are not armchair advisors just sitting behind our computer screens. We strategically select our clients based on our ability to truly offer impactful services and jump in as if we’ve been with them for years.
Our Team
Combining experience, a track record of success, and vision, our team is here to help you achieve your fundraising goals.
Emily Krueger
Chief Strategist and Founder
Emily Krueger is a business development leader who has built dozens of partnerships with private foundations, high-net-worth individuals, governments, and Fortune 500 companies, generating millions of dollars and delivering profound social impact. From her earliest days as an AmeriCorps member working for the public health department in Indianapolis to developing multi-million dollar public / private partnerships that provided lifesaving nutrition treatments to severely malnourished children, Emily combines her program, financial, and fundraising acumen to change the world.
Emily has developed partnerships with leading institutions including Health and Human Services, USAID, CDC, Comic Relief, and ELMA Philanthropies, and led proposal development for MacArthur 100 & Change, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and Caterpillar Foundation. She has worked with nonprofits including Action Against Hunger and Best Friends Animal Society to create game-changing social impact, partnering these organizations with companies including Google, Apple, Netflix, (WW) Weight Watchers, Humble Bundle, and Hard Rock Café to create mutually-beneficial relationships, each generating six and seven figure gifts and building brand visibility.
Emily is a Board member for Experience Camps and Veterinarians Without Borders where she is able to support these organizations with new and innovative fundraising strategies and ideas.
She graduated from Indiana University with a graduate degree in biomedical ethics, and lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband, son, three dogs, and two chickens.
Kate Camargo
Senior Strategist
Kate Camargo is a skilled fundraising and communications consultant with fifteen years of experience developing, writing, and managing grant-funded programs. She excels in translating complex technical program information into compelling proposals that have garnered millions of dollars from private foundations and government funders.
Kate got her start in fundraising as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa, where, after a series of community meetings, she wrote a proposal and secured all the funding for a new five-bed maternity ward at the village health center. Kate worked at Penn State University for several years as a front-line major gifts fundraiser and later as the project manager for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant-funded institute. In that role, she oversaw the institute’s programmatic and budget management and coordinated its successful $25 million grant renewal to the NIH. More recently, Kate worked at a leading, international NGO, leading the teams to raise over $4 million in private grants, developing proposals to funders including Comic Relief USA, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Keith Haring Foundation, MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition, and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy.
Kate holds a Master of Public Affairs degree with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from Indiana University. Kate lives outside St. Louis, MO, with her husband and three daughters. In her free time, you’ll find her cooking, exploring local parks, or reading a good book.
Kim Pucci
Senior Strategist
Kim has spent more than 25 years helping to forge partnerships and mobilize movements that advance organizational goals and catalyze profound change. Leveraging her fundraising and storytelling skills from more than a decade of working with top funders, nonprofits, and entertainment brands (CNN, HGTV, TNT, Hallmark Channel, New Line Cinema.), Kim has spearheaded award-winning campaigns for leading organizations including Google, P&G, Amazon, and Walgreens with partners including UNICEF USA, Best Friends Animal Society, Action Against Hunger, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
With a deep ability to reach diverse stakeholders and drive results across a variety of platforms, Kim’s work has led to significant awareness, audience engagement, revenue and social impact. Her work has been recognized in Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands by Carol Cone and Jocelyn Daw, honored with a Halo Award from Engage for Good, and is frequently featured in media outlets ranging from Fast Company to HuffPost and beyond.
Advisory Council
With decades of experience and skill in fundraising, strategy, and consulting, our Advisory Council offers expert guidance to our clients.
Emily Schell
Emily Schell provides strategic fundraising oversight and counsel to nonprofit partners on a regional, national, and international level. She has extensive experience in developing cultivation and solicitation strategies for major gift prospects, conducting feasibility studies, implementing capital campaigns, and working with clients on board management and volunteer recruitment.
Over the past two decades, Emily has led a variety of major fundraising campaigns and initiatives for clients ranging from United Way Worldwide and Action Against Hunger to the Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund and Make a Wish Foundation – Mid Atlantic. She successfully led the $50 million campaign to raise the resources for a National World War One Memorial in Washington, DC.
Emily worked to develop the strategic fundraising framework, provides regular counsel on outreach and prospecting and assists in the implementation of the campaign plan. Prior to working as a consultant, Emily oversaw philanthropy programs for Time Warner through New York Cares and managed corporate partnerships for Greater DC Cares. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and German from the University of Puget Sound. She currently resides in Alexandria, VA with her husband and their two children.
Vanessa Stair
Vanessa brings 15+ years of fundraising experience and is excited to help strategically build diverse funding sources for organizations. Currently, Vanessa works at Meta on their Government and Social Impact Team.
Before Meta, Vanessa served as a Corporate Relations Officer for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Action Against Hunger, cultivating and managing corporate and philanthropic relationships with a special focus on cause-related marketing. Prior to MSF, Vanessa worked for the United Nations Foundation supporting partnership efforts that contributed to the sustainability of the United Nations Foundation in meeting key goals set forth by the UN.
Vanessa graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA in Sociology and is heavily involved in women’s and girls’ issues supporting organizations such as Planned Parenthood and Girl Up. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her 11-year-old Peyton, 3-year-old son Rosie and bernedoodle, Popham.
Paige Jernigan
Paige is the Principle at Angel Oak, which is an advisory service and fundraising consultancy for startups raising angel, seed, and growth capital. Paige spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs as an equity analyst covering wireless telecom service companies in New York, Toronto and London. While taking time to raise three boys in London, she raised funds for investment funds, nonprofits, individuals, and startups around the globe. Following Brexit and 17 years in London, Paige and her family moved to New York. She splits her time between New York and Bentonville, Arkansas where she continues to raise capital for various for-profit and nonprofit entities.
Paige led the Democrats Abroad coalition in London for Mike Bloomberg’s 2020 Presidential campaign, organizing DA chapters across the globe. She received her MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University. Additionally, after completing Kellogg’s executive education program on corporate and non-profit board governance and another program on managing family offices, she works with family offices in London on board structure and governance.
Grace Funnell
Grace is a Programme Specialist at UNICEF Headquarters in New York, where she supports the agency’s strategic goals on wasting and leads the global coordination and implementation of simplified approaches to optimize the treatment of wasting.
Grace also co-chairs the Global Simplified Approaches Working Group. Prior to joining UNICEF in January 2020, Grace served as Action Against Hunger USA’s Acting Technical Director where she oversaw the execution of the organization’s technical strategy, led a team of subject matter experts, and managed a portfolio of complex projects, including research and pilot studies focused on treating and preventing wasting.
In her more than a decade of experience, Ms. Funnell has designed, researched, and implemented a variety of nutrition, health, and food security programs in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Prior to working with UNICEF, she provided technical expertise, leadership, and support to Catholic Relief Services, UNICEF Liberia, Mercy Corps, the World Food Program, and World Vision.
Amanda Meyer
Amanda Meyer leads private philanthropy strategies for global nonprofits and corporations, influencing tens of millions of dollars across a variety of issues from hunger to environmental restoration in her role as Senior Director on the consulting team at Global Impact, a highly esteemed philanthropic intermediary.
For more than a decade, she has partnered with brands including Action Against Hunger, Comic Relief, Catholic Relief Services, Johnson Controls, Hilton Worldwide, and the Power of Nutrition, among others on social impact initiatives around the world.
Her expertise lies across a variety of areas critical for leadership and growth, including donor engagement, strategic planning, creative pitch building, emerging structures for giving, board and c-suite engagement in fundraising, and curated high-impact events. Amanda holds a Master of Public Administration and Bachelor’s of Political Science from James Madison University. She lives in beautiful Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband and two-year old son.
Stephanie Macgill
Stephanie Macgill is the founder of Ilios Gaia & Macgill, a multi-dimensional coaching and consulting firm that marries traditional business coaching and leadership development with spiritual wayfinding and therapeutic support.
She’s worked for over 20 years in the nonprofit sector and is intimately familiar with the challenges facing nonprofit leaders, specifically fundraising staff. Stephanie has worked on behalf of people and animals for over two decades and is a skilled writer, fundraiser, and strategic planner who loves authentic communication, partnerships, somatic enquiry, and logic models.
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We can’t wait to work with you!
Whether you’re a nonprofit or social enterprise, reach out to see how we can help you build a diverse revenue structure that will support your organization for years in the future.