Are your next-level fundraising efforts not landing?
Larger funders don’t fund organizations; they fund change.
Most nonprofits are stuck pitching programs and missions. I help growing organizations prove the change they create — using data and storytelling to make impact clear, credible, and impossible to ignore.
Funders need to understand your impact (not activities).
Getting super clear about what your organization does and how it makes a difference through the eyes of your constituents gives you a powerful story to bring your funders closer to your impact.
Your organization needs to show the depth AND breadth of your work.
This means sharing powerful individual stories that are backed up by the impact data behind them. Shifts in understanding, hopefulness, or power are vital to improving people’s lives and can be measured for use in your grants, development conversations, and communication.
Why you? Define why your organization is the best fit to make this change.
Your organization’s unique approach and experience that leads to this impact tells funders why supporting your work is the best investment they can make in your community.
Community Assessments
Impact Reports
Case for Supports
I’m Emily Taylor.
Funders don’t fund organizations; they fund change. I help nonprofits make the impact they create clear, credible, and impossible to ignore.
Using a human-centered research and evaluation approach, I work with organizations to move beyond vague storytelling and surface the real outcomes behind their work. By combining data, community voice, and strategic narrative, I help nonprofits show not just what they do — but why their approach works and why funders should invest.
My background in consumer research, nonprofit leadership, and qualitative evaluation allows me to bring both meaning and empathy to this process. Whether I’m interviewing community members, staff, or stakeholders, my goal is the same: to uncover the proof of impact that too often gets buried in reports, spreadsheets, and internal language and turn it into stories that drive understanding, trust, and funding.
At the core of my work is a simple belief: when people can clearly see change, they are far more likely to support it.
“Two years later, we are still referencing what we learned about engaging our audience from teenyBIG’s work. It’s given us a deeper understanding of them, more so than we’ve ever gotten from surveys and focus groups.”
— Head of Knowledge Management, The Morton Arboretum
Impact stories need to do more than just provide numbers or anecdotes, you need to weave the patterns and meaningful change in a way that makes sense to those who can support your future growth. That’s what I bring to our work!
Tell your full impact story
Who I work with
Stellar CEOs of 1-8M nonprofits who have grown their organization in amazing ways but need to level up their impact story for continued growth
Organizations that have gone through, or are going through, big changes and need to reassess their impact within the community
Nonprofits that have stalled on how to share their impact, costing them time, money, or reputation