Carol is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and accomplished donor communications pro with a proven track record of amplifying diverse voices and securing significant gifts for nonprofits and foundations.

As the founder of Just Giving Communications, she’s created compelling donor outreach materials and messages to enhance donor relationships and drive social impact through philanthropy.

With a deep commitment to social justice, she’s crafted powerful stories highlighting the transformative actions of advocates, donors, and community members. She has also written cases for support that attracted seven-figure gifts, directed high-profile giving day events, co-led successful fundraising campaigns, and guided the strategic communications direction of nonprofits and foundations.

A skilled writer and project manager, Carol has produced a wide range of donor communications, from direct mail appeals and newsletters to video stories and annual reports. She enabled the publication of numerous feature media stories and op-eds in targeted outlets for Connecticut’s groundbreaking marriage equality campaign.

Carol has earned the sole international qualification specifically designed for fundraising, the CFRE, which signifies a fundamental level of competence and a commitment to fundraising standards and ethics.

She earned a bachelor’s degree from Ithaca College, master’s degrees from Bowling Green State University and the University of Hartford, and a certificate in digital media and marketing from Duke University Continuing Studies.

Carol is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Nonprofit Technology Network, the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, and Fairfield County’s Community Foundation Nonprofit Consultants Network. As a business member of 1% for the Planet, Carol donates one percent of all revenue earned through Just Giving Communications to environmental causes.

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Storytelling, her book group, her obsession with the New York Times, her quest to find the best empanada in Hartford, and mentoring a teenager that she (literally) looks up to.