Case for Support for a Survivor-Led Nonprofit

Free Brands creates entrepreneurship pathways for survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence, so they can build businesses and lasting economic freedom. We would like to work with a marketing or fundraising professional to craft a case for support, the foundational document we adapt across grant applications, sponsorship pitches, and donor conversations. It needs to speak to the funders, foundations, and corporate partners who can invest in our work, and to do that well, it has to convey who we serve and why our approach is different.

At its core, our work asks people to see survivors differently. Most programs are built around crisis, and survivors are too often seen through that narrow lens. Free Brands exists to shift that perspective, to recognize survivors as entrepreneurs building something lasting. We want this document to carry that shift, so everyone who reads it comes away seeing survivor entrepreneurship as real and worth investing in.

We envision the volunteer starting with discovery to understand our mission and model, then helping us draft the document with our funders in mind. We have a sense of what it might include, such as the need, our solution, our impact and the evidence we have so far, our goals and strategies, our financial needs, a call to action, and recognition and stewardship, and we are open to your guidance on what belongs and how to shape it. The work would include several rounds of review, along with the support we need to use the document well once it is complete.

Right now our biggest limit is not our model or our results, it is our ability to tell the story in a way that moves people to invest. That is exactly the gap your skills fill. The words you help us find will sit at the center of every grant application, every sponsor conversation, and every donor ask we make, which means your work keeps funding real programs and putting real dollars into survivor-owned businesses. For a solo founder wearing every hat, a professional who can shape our story into something fundable is one of the highest-impact gifts we could receive, and its effect compounds with every future ask we build on it.

We are ready to move quickly. As the founder, I lead this work directly and will be readily available throughout discovery, keeping feedback fast and consistent. We are early in our journey, but have real ground to build on, including my research on survivor entrepreneurship, data from our holiday pilot, what we have learned from the business owners in our community, and our current financial picture and budget planning. All of it is ready to share. We are looking for a volunteer who can help us translate this research and momentum into a narrative that resonates with the people we are asking to invest in us.