About Tournes
Mary Cianflone (she/hers) started Tournes Consulting after working in program management, evaluation, and fundraising. She has over 15 years of experience. She began her career supporting academics in higher education as they navigate the federal grants process, before moving to smaller, more community-focused organizations. She has worked on highly successful proposals and reporting at the federal, state, county, and city level. She also has experience with fundraising via individual and corporate donors. Her specialty is assisting non-profits in moments of change, especially growth. When you’re ready to go to the next level, she is ready to help you get there.
Values
Tournes Consulting adheres to anti-racist, anti-colonial, intersectional values. As a white woman who works as a fundraiser, Mary has seen firsthand how the history of violent, extractive practices negatively impacted so many communities. She believes in this work because she believes that wrongs can be righted when enough of us come together with that mindset.
Tournes Consulting follows Community-Centric Fundraising Principles:
1. Fundraising must be grounded in race, equity, and social justice.
2. Individual organizational missions are not as important as the collective community.
3. Nonprofits are generous with and mutually supportive of one another.
4. All who engage in strengthening the community are equally valued, whether volunteer, staff, donor, or board member.
5. Time is valued equally as money.
6. We treat donors as partners, and this means that we are transparent, and occasionally have difficult conversations.
7. We foster a sense of belonging, not othering.
8. We promote the understanding that everyone (donors, staff, funders, board members, volunteers) personally benefits from engaging in the work of social justice – it’s not just charity and compassion.
9. We see the work of social justice as holistic and transformative, not transactional.
10. We recognize that healing and liberation requires a commitment to economic justice.
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