Suzanne Bowles Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston

Inspiring a spirit of generosity and awareness toward collective liberation and ecological flourishing.Cattail Strategy supports grassroots orgs and philanthropies in pursuing the next horizon of "wealth generation" to shift the landscape of our economies toward equity and thriving. This includes new approaches to resource development and value identification and distribution. About the name: A wetland is an evolutionary engine; a center of biological diversity. Cattails grow in wetlands everywhere. Like cattails, human societies thrive in balance, rich diversity, and connection with the natural world

Gaia

A movement started by 12 guardians from 5 continents aligned around a shared aspiration: to build a participatory fund and govern it according to indigenous principles and practices toward the most critical bioregions on earth. We practice this today by self-selecting portfolios of key projects that we fundraise for and learn from. Indigenous Commons sees a parallel system in which many different stories about value exist: a growing network of reciprocity and exchange nourishes indigenous and traditional lifeways and innovations. In the first 6 months of 2024 we will move money into the story, movement and tools to support this vision. With the $500,000 needed to bring us to this point, we will have what it takes to launch the Kinship Fund.

Founding member, contributor toward the core values, contributor to the Embracing Complexity Report and co-lead on the working group examining capital and finance strategies to accelerate transformations toward flourishing life on Earth.

Ecuador And Peru

The Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative is building a shared vision among indigenous peoples, NGOs, the philanthropic community, social entrepreneurs and governments towards establishing a bi-national protected region – off-limits to industrial scale resource extraction, and governed in accordance with traditional indigenous principles of cooperation and harmony that foster a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.The Initiative is led by Amazonian indigenous federations CONFENIAE (Ecuador), AIDESEP (Peru), ORPIO, and COICA, in partnership with Pachamama Alliance, and Fundación Pachamama.

Greater Boston Area

Suzanne oversaw Tostan's internal partnership strategy and coordinated a global community of visionary partners committed to an equitable future through empowering education and community-driven development. Co-designing the communities of the future starting with a transformational model born and raised in West Africa.Tostan's network of support reflects the interconnected dignified movement sparked by Tostan in West Africa. It advances the story of love, respect and inclusion as the foundation of positive social transformation. The Global Mobilization Team seeks partnership with other community-driven development orgs, strategic investors, and visionaries who will help achieve "Dignity for All" through expert grassroots leadership and radical generosity around the world.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I support an international team of change agents who bring resources and synergy to Tostan's mission to empower African communities. The network reflects and responds to the values-centered grassroots movement growing in Tostan's 6 countries of presence. We project stories of dignity for all; building an organizational culture and expansive community of support to realize this vision.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

West Springfield, Ma

Providing community-based and led opportunities to resource local and culturally relevant residential, substance abuse and mental health services. Including the creation of first person narratives to disrupt narratives of shame and oppression and lift new possibilites.

Northampton, Massachusetts

Northampton, Ma

Short and long term organizational and resource development planning, implementation and evaluation. Organizational development for maximized operational efficiency and effectiveness. Foundation, State and Federal Grant Writing for non profit and for profit corporations.

Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts

Fundraising and donor relations strategy for a nationally known grassroots nonprofit. Capital campaign planning. Design and implementation of a donor-centered communication strategy.Increased the amount of funds raised from individual donors exponentially between 2011 and 2012. Quintupled the number of individual donors. Coordinated the creation of three central fundraising videos with Rough Mountain Studios: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCMwnySFVrIPresented the ADP Community Economy model to a national audience at the Economic Democracy Conference in Madison, WI. Co-presenters and nationally known keynotes such as David Cobb, John Nichols, Gar Alperovitz and Ellen Brown. Entered ADP for the JobRaising Challenge, a national challenge sponsored by the Huffington Post and the Skoll Foundation. ADP was one of 74 organizations out of more than 200 chosen to present its job creation model in a crowd funding competition. ADP maintained a blog at Huffington Post for the duration and raised more than $20,000 in online and offline donations during the 30 day contest.I was not involved in the fiscal management or accounting of this agency. My responsibilities were relegated to income generation and community support.

Certificate In Exponential Fundraising

Ba Politics And International Relations

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