Fundraising ▪ Product Development ▪ Planned Giving ▪ Endowments ▪ Investment Policies ▪ Non-Dues Revenue Ralph Grunewald knows how to raise funds for non-profit organizations and associations. ♦ Serves as a solicitor for various non-profit organizations. ♦ Understands how to motivate and excite donors and prospective contributors in support of causes and institutions. ♦ Proven record of raising significant charitable donations. ♦ Hands-on experience managing endowments, soliciting grants proposals, and issuing grants. ♦ Developed several investment policies and knows how to establish and utilize Investment Committees. ♦ Examples include:
Fundraising & Product Development
Bertelsmann Foundation (Bertelsmann Stiftung -- Gütersloh, Germany): Working alongside its Germany-based staff, GrunewaldSolutions was hired to design, market, and raise funds for a new German-Jewish American Young Leaders Exchange project. Founded in 1977 by businessman and social entrepreneur Reinhard Mohn, the Bertelsmann Stiftung -- with more than 300 employees around the world -- is one of the largest foundations and think tanks in Europe, and has invested more than $1 billion in 700+ projects around the world, including path-setting projects in Israel and in the promotion of German-Israel relations.
Africa Harvest: Biotech Foundation International (Nairobi, Kenya & Johannesburg, South Africa): GrunewaldSolutions was hired for a long-term project to develop financial resources in the United States and abroad for this innovate NGO that seeks to overcome
hunger, poverty, and malnutrition in Africa. GrunewaldSolutions also serves as Africa Harvest's representative in Washington, DC and elsewhere to promote Africa Harvest's educational and programmatic goals.
"An Unknown Country" Documentary (New York, NY): Working with Emmy Award-winning documentarian Eva Zelig, GrunewaldSolutions
is collaborativing to bring to the screen "An Unknown Country," which recounts the European Jewish immigration to Ecuador, from the rise of Nazism through the post-War War II period, and the stories of the first, second, and third generation of immigants.
The David Project (Boston, MA): GrunewaldSolutions was hired to assist in developing strategic organizational partnerships and accessing potential foundation donors and grants. Will assist in donor research, outreach, and solicitation.
American Jewish International Relations Institute (Washington, DC): Hired to raise funds through AJIRI's network of current and past donors, foundations, and other potential supporters. Tasked with professionalizing the resource development effort and to raise the level of financial support for the organization.
Dershowitz Group (Washington, DC): Hired to consult with The Dershowitz Group -- a Washington, DC-based public affairs firm -- to raise funds for the annual conference (June 2010) of a major client, a national journalism organization with 250+ member newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations.
The Jet Foundation for Children Trust (London, United Kingdom): Hired to co-direct, develop, and capitalize a new non-profit organization, based in the United Kingdom, focused on pre-teen boys to expose them to different cultures and social values around the world through books and collecting/trading of collectibles.
The Gary Rosenthal Collection (Kensington, MD): Conceptualized a national campaign to launch The Kristallnacht Project, which will involve thousands of individuals across the nation to build a 600 square foot sculpture, containing 600 individual mosaic windows of fused shards of glass, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of "the Night of the Broken Glass," in 2013; the sculpture will be designed by noted Judaic artist, Gary Rosenthal. The project will commemorate one of the darkest chapters in Jewish history, provide opportunities for Holocaust education and remembrance, and a platform to raise funds for national and local organizations.
Research!America (Alexandria, VA):
♦ Rebranded and re-imagined R!A's "The 435 Project" to raise $1.2 million annually for empowering and training advocates for medical and health research, with the goal of developing activists in all 435 Congressional districts; solicited major gifts.
♦ Developed a first-ever "Five-Year Vision Goal" fund-raising campaign of $15 million.
Private Foundation (London, United Kingdom -- asked not to be named): Engaged to develop strategy and business plan for a non-profit focused on weight-loss and financial support to feed the hungry around the world.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC):
♦ Served as Deputy Director & Counsel of the Museum's $200 million+ capital campaign; managed fund-raising staff in the Washington office and in five regional offices; managed the Holocaust Survivors Campaign and the Labor Union Campaign, raising more than $15 million; solicited major gifts, including $100,000+ gifts.
♦ Designed, wrote, and produced numerous fund-raising brochures and related print collateral.
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Washington, DC):
♦ Created and implemented the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief Fund; personally raised over $300,000 for 196 needy defense lawyers in the Gulf Coast as a result of these natural disasters.
♦ Successfully applied for multi-year major grants (in the hundreds of thousands of dollars annually) from major foundations, including the Ford Foundation, Open Society Institute, JEHT Foundation, and the Tides Foundation.
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (Rockville, MD): Ralph Grunewald served as Co-Chair of the annual Ma'ayan Parents' Campaign that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the school; mobilized, motivated and oversaw volunteers; wrote solicitation scripts.
United Jewish Appeal (New York, NY): Ralph Grunewald served as Director of the Washington, DC office and director of the Washington Mission Program that annually brought 75 local Jewish federation groups on study tours of the capital and raised millions of dollars for domestic and international purposes.
Endowments & Investment Policies
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Washington, DC):
♦ Served as Manager of the Foundation for Criminal Justice -- an independent 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded by NACDL; directed its fundraising efforts, grant review process, grant disbursements, and investments; responsible for increasing the Foundation's assets by $350,000; reconstituted a previously moribund Board of Trustees; engaged in several innovative fundraising programs; professionalized grant application process.
♦ Wrote NACDL's Investment Policy and created an Investment Committee, both resulting in unparalleled growth in reserves and maximizing a range of investment options.
Research!America (Alexandria, VA): Overhauled R!A's investment policies to provide maximum growth of capital and flexibility in investments.
Non-Dues Revenue Generation
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Washington, DC):
Drove effort to create multi-tiered sponsorship opportunities for vendors and commercial firms seeking entree to the defense bar community; aggressively increased life membership program and other categories for association members beyond annual dues, resulting in significant up-front revenue; increased income from royalties and affinity partnerships with goods and service providers; developed a highly successful low-cost publications department, resulting in significant return on investment.
Planned Giving
Complemented by seasoned and expert planned giving professionals, GrunewaldSolutions can help organizations establish planned giving programs, can assist donors in their deferred giving planning, and can implement a planned giving campaign.
