Arizona Commission on the Arts

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phone: 520-603-9136
DJDover321@aol.com

Deborah Dover is a full-time independent consultant and trainer specializing in fundraising, marketing and Board development. She helps organizations:

• Diversify and stabilize their funding base 

• Start individual giving programs and assess other fundraising strategies

• Inspire Board members to get involved in fundraising in ways that are both effective for the organization and comfortable for them

• Assess and shift organizational culture regarding money

Serving the nonprofit sector since 1990, Deborah has worked as executive director or director of development for a magazine, a battered women’s shelter, a community center, and a national literacy organization. She honed her consulting and training skills as a management consultant for a network of community development organizations. 

Through trainings, one-on-one coaching, and consulting engagements with a combination of staff and Board members, she fires up people about fundraising and helps overcome obstacles that have prevented organizations from realizing their resource development potential.

Keenly aware of the realities faced by small- and medium-sized nonprofits, Deborah has unique strategies for transforming Board members’ misgivings regarding fundraising. She can also help you analyze your overall revenue base, examine areas for growth, and match untapped or under-utilized markets with revenue-raising strategies – thanks to her experience in financial management, combined with a natural entrepreneurial bent. She has experience in individual giving, grant writing, earned income, cause-related marketing, events, and foundation and corporate fundraising.

As a journalism school graduate and former reporter, Deborah is also available to write, edit and design materials and to prepare and implement marketing plans. She has created brochures, press releases, publicity materials, fundraising letters and subscription promotions, and has led promotional campaigns for symposiums and other events.

Deborah is also a singer, guitarist and pianist, performing in a variety of venues since childhood, and currently sings jazz standards for Desert Swing, Sierra Vista’s big band. She relocated from upstate New York to southern Arizona in the summer of 2004, and has also worked in the Boston area and the Colorado Rockies. Her first job in Arizona was facilitating a Board retreat (opening it with a song) for the Cochise Children’s Choir. She is also a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. 

Areas of Expertise:

• Organization Development
• Fund Raising
• Marketing
• Participation
• Music

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