Annual Giving Campaign Consultant for Publisher

We are seeking an experienced Nonprofit Fundraising Consultant to design, structure, and help execute our 2026 Year-End Fundraising Campaign. As a nonprofit publisher, our work relies on web-based giving, audience contributions, and online community support.

Our main objectives for this campaign include:
- Maximizing digital donor retention by converting casual podcast listeners into recurring, ongoing donors.
- Setting clear, realistic fundraising goals for our team.

Scope of Work:
- Strategy & Campaign Design: Develop a end-to-end strategy and timeline for the 2026 year-end campaign (running late October through December).
- Crafting a cohesive digital storytelling narrative optimized for email, web, and social media channels.
- Creating scripts for our podcast hosts to encourage annual giving.

We don't have a specific $ goal for 2026 fundraising. Funds raised in the annual campaign will allow us to improve pay rates for our creators and crew!

This year (2026) will be fourth annual campaign. We have learned from prior years what works and what doesn't. We have a database of donors, including major donors. The large audience of our four weekly podcasts are an excellent base for promos. We have the graphic assets, email copy and host scripts from prior years to use as a basis for 2026.

Organization Mission

"One Story, Told Well." Escape Artists podcasts free, audio speculative short fiction to a global audience & builds a community of people who love to create & appreciate science fiction, fantasy, horror, and young adult fiction. We create original, award-winning free weekly audio fiction. We publish four free weekly genre short fiction podcasts, a monthly bonus show, work with partners to publish print and digital anthologies, and support our teams creating video content on Twitch. We publish over 200 stories every year, each and every one available for free digitally and in audio, distributed under the Creative Commons license. Our Values - Compensate the Creative — ‘Exposure’ is a cause of death, not a way to pay bills. Artists deserve to be paid for their work. - Widen the Circle — Genre fiction has a representation problem. We’re helping correct it. - Audio Short Fiction Advocates — We think audio short stories are the perfect solution to the self-care crunch, offering a unique and immersive way to incorporation fiction in our daily lives.