“I cannot recommend Lili more highly. She brings incredible competence, deep knowledge, a beautiful fluency, and a little bit of magic to her projects. During her term consulting for the museum she worked on the most strategic, complex, and largest gift requests, managing all aspects of proposal generation. Our success rate exceeded all expectation. I look forward to future chapters of collaboration with Lili, she is in her own league!”
— Corinne Godsall, Director, Corporate, Institutional, and Global Partners, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
“Lili has been an amazing asset to our organization. She is a beautifully effective grant writer who has successfully helped us secure funding for a variety of programs from a wide range of funders. More importantly, as someone with a thorough understanding of cultural organizations and the funding landscape, she has helped us better organize and plan our fundraising strategy and articulate our vision, mission and impact as we communicate our programs to existing and potential funders. ”
— Christine Chen, Executive Director, STREB
“Lili is a fantastic writer, researcher and strategic leader. I was fortunate to work with Lili and learn from her exceptional organizational skills and methods to secure and increase funding. Lili is the first person I called when in need of a consultant on several complex projects - her critical eye for language, scholarship, and advice on donor engagement were fundamental in expanding growth opportunities.”
— Kirra Steel, Chief Development Officer, International Center of Photography
“Lili’s superior writing and editing skills helped to attract new funding from a variety of foundations and government agencies. Her focus on exhibition support meant that her projects constantly changed and required keen prospecting and quick turnaround time. Lili handled all with ease and was diligent with the full cycle of fundraising, from research to cultivation to request to reporting. She is a true pro. Lili’s ability to translate complex curatorial ideas into proposals was commended on several occasions by her colleagues in the curatorial department. She is also a kind and generously spirited person, and quickly formed strong relationships with staff across all departments.”
— Kerri Schlottman-Bright, Director of Institutional Advancement, Creative Capital
“Lili is a talented, insightful and thoughtful grantwriter – one of the best I know. She thinks strategically about each proposal – from the grantmaker research to the finishing touches on the document. I highly recommend her!”
— John Hicks, Principal and Founder, DLBHICKS LLC; and Faculty, Columbia University Nonprofit Management Program
“Lili is a veteran fundraiser and a stellar grantwriter.”
— Kathleen Donovan Riegelhaupt, Senior Director of Development, The New York Public Library