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President & Chief Executive Officer
Spark Point Fundraising
Whitney Brimfield owns Spark Point Fundraising, a boutique consulting firm that helps nonprofits match their fundraising strategy to their mission and impact through broad strategy development projects and through outsourced grant writing and foundation relations support. Started in 2014, Spark Point is a DC-based, but nationally reaching company that helps organizations raise tens of millions of dollars annually. Whitney has almost 25 years of experience in fundraising, business development, and social enterprise at the local, state, and national level.
She has worked on a variety of issues, including public health, education, health policy, youth development, the environment, and the arts, raising millions of dollars for numerous causes. Some highlights include the School-Based Health Alliance, the nation’s technical assistance and advocacy organization for school-based health care; MMG, a specialty advertising and marketing firm that creates campaigns to recruit patients for clinical trials; and the DC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
She specializes in helping organizations move their fundraising efforts to a new level, whether that means adding a new revenue stream, improving systems, developing a winning grant proposal, or creating a completely new fundraising strategy. She is skilled at designing highly successful development strategies, coaching Boards of Directors and executive leadership to overcome fundraising fears, writing winning grant proposals, engaging corporate donors, and building individual donor programs. She brings a marketing eye to resource development, always thinking about how an organization’s communications and messaging must dovetail with its investor outreach.
She is an active volunteer and sought-after board member, currently serving as Treasurer for the Association of Fundraising Professionals DC Chapter. Her past board appointments include the Washington Improv Theater, the NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland Education Fund, and the Women’s Information Network. She holds a Master of Health Science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelors from Haverford College.
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Writing for Progress: How to Write Grants and Tell Stories for Justice
Thursday, July 31, 2025
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