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Build momentum.

You serve on the board of directors, executive team, or staff of a nonprofit organization. Your heart, instincts, and data tell you that your organization can make a bigger or better impact.

You seek a partner to build momentum for change.

d'nitiatives® helps nonprofit organizations set strategic direction, design initiatives, grow resources, and support change.

d'nitiatives® serves Washington, D.C. area nonprofits with budgets in the range of $250K to $10 million and at least one full-time employee. We also provide strategy and process support to executives leading teams or departments within large nonprofits.

What’s your next milestone?

 
 
 
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Set Direction

d’nitiatives® supports nonprofit boards to shape strategic direction through process design, planning, and facilitation.

 
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Design Initiatives

d’nitiatives® supports nonprofit executives and teams to design initiatives that can achieve measurable multi-year results.

 
 
 
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Grow Resources

d’nitiatives® helps boards and executives architect approaches for revenue growth.

 
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Support Change

d’nitiatives® supports nonprofits to prepare for, manage, and communicate through multi-year transitions.

 

Amy Dawson, Principal

Amy launched d'nitiatives® in 2010 to help nonprofit leaders and organizations become more visionary and effective.

The name d'nitiatives® highlights the importance of designing initiatives that convert vision to action, investable opportunities, and impact.

Previously, Amy served Georgetown University as assistant vice president in the office of advancement to help to shape and build capacity for a $1.5 billion philanthropic campaign. She also served as a senior program manager at the Academy of Educational Development. Early in her career in San Francisco, Amy helped to start up the Miriam and Peter Haas Fund's operations and programs, then served as a consultant to help local leaders plan forward-looking initiatives that secured public and private funding.

Amy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and a Master in Public Policy degree from The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Amy’s real-world heroes are many, including a diverse array of leaders and colleagues whom she has served and collaborated with in California, North Carolina, and the Washington, DC region. Their dedication to mission, courage to imagine, resilience through change, and ethical integrity are among the lasting impressions that inspire Amy and countless other people in their spheres.

Amy grew up in Sacramento, California. Amy’s sense of purpose is rooted in her parents’ example.

Contact

 

Amy Dawson
Principal
d’nitiatives®
P.O. Box 21503
Washington, DC 20009

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