Kimberly R. Urish, CFRE

Leadership, writing, and major gifts consultant

About

With over 20 years of experience, Kimberly has worked with every size and style of organization. From small organizations with three staff to an international $300M organization with thousands of people spread across the globe, she can help a fundraising team of one to team of 30. Her experience includes all aspects of fundraising including volunteer management, membership programs, direct mail, online giving, peer-to-peer fundraising, events database management, grant writing, and foundation relations. Her specialty is major gifts work including prospecting, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major donors including high-net-worth individuals giving assets to make transformational impact. She will help your fundraising professionals feel supported and successful, provide plans that increase revenue, and create best practices for years to come, advising on all aspects of a donor journey.

Kimberly often says, "I have the best job." With a front-row seat to the best of humanity, fundraising provides an opportunity to work with people who want to make the world a better place. That's why this work is so important. As well as fun! Everyone loves a good storyteller. Kimberly's story started in rural Illinois, where she was raised by family who represented values of generosity, integrity, work-ethic, and good humor. She moved to Denver in 2000 and currently lives near downtown with her partner and two black cats. In her free time, she enjoys reading, podcasts, walks, game-nights, dinners with friends, singing and playing guitar, activism, her First Unitarian community, and traveling.

S E R V I C E S

Expertise: Kimberly has 23 years of experience in nonprofit development. This includes Leadership Development, Team Building, Coaching, Training, Project Management, Developing Processes, and Policies. She raised over $22M for the American Indian College Fund using best practices in Major Gifts fundraising to help you prospect new donors, cultivate with unique moves management techniques, and improve donor relations to increase revenue. She can provide personalized services and solutions tailored to your mission, team, and audiences.

T E S T I M O N I A L S

"Kimberly Urish is a talented and thoughtful fundraiser and strategist. Kimberly has been assisting the Colorado Golf Association in our efforts to hire a new major gifts officer and establish a major gifts program. Kimberly has created an extensive major gifts work plan with goals and tactics to help us expand our fundraising capacity. Her detailed organizational skills have kept us on target and provided us with actionable resources our small fundraising operation needed to keep moving and stay focused on the necessary work of raising more money."
-Ryan Smith, Chief Development Officer, Colorado Golf Association

"Kimberly is a triple threat – skilled across leadership, strategy, and relationship management. During a capacity gap that was suppressing cash flow, she brought needed structure and professionalism to our team while offering valuable insights we had not considered. A quick learner who is easy to collaborate with, she helped us level up our constituent engagement team with her conscientious, enthusiastic approach." -Sarah Vaz Mehalic, Direct Response Marketing Manager, American Indian College Fund

"Joining the team as an Interim Stewardship Coordinator, Kimberly jumped in to fill the backlog of activities, and with her 20 years of fundraising experience, helped lead our volunteer committee to planning the annual Pledge Campaign. She brought structure, excellent writing and communication abilities, and organized a campaign with a goal of increasing revenue by 15% for our faith community."
-Rev. Mike Moran, First Unitarian Society of Denver

Contact

Let's discuss how we can help you reach your nonprofits revenue goals.

303-241-9375
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