Our Services
Benvenuti Arts works with arts-based nonprofits to bolster their operations, grow their fundraising efforts, and lay the groundwork for a bright and sustainable future. A few of our services are listed below. If you don’t see something you need, contact us and we’ll see if we can help!
Services
Grants Management
We help you decide what grants to apply for, put together a calendar, and then manage the entire grantwriting process, from start to finish.
Leadership Advising and Training
Monthly calls to talk through what the leadership needs are: planning, budgeting, fundraising, board, strategy, any intermingled challenges that face leaders of small organizations. Each meeting focuses on the current challenges, with follow-up emails and reminders to stay on track, supporting and advising closely.
Interim Management Services
We provide your organization with interim staffing during your search, focusing on Executive Director, Managing Director, General Manager, and Development positions.
Consulting
Short and Long-Term Planning
In partnership with your leadership, Benvenuti Arts coordinates organizational planning processes, creating 1 to 3 year fundraising and administrative plans that are truly workable and achievable.
Fundraising and Development
Our team works within your budget to provide ongoing advising and support services in all areas of fundraising, helping you to implement the plans we create.
Financial Reporting and Advising
Numbers can be scary and confusing. We support leadership and board members to make decisions. Whether you need support in creating and understanding how financial reports can influence decisions, working with your bookkeeper to create monthly year-to-date and projects, cash flow structure, or a boost in confidence in those moments, we are there with you!
Our Mission
We believe in the small and mighty, the community connectors and innovators, the dreamers and the doers. We believe that “big” is not the same as “good,” and that, often, the most important truths come in small packages. We believe that doing something better doesn’t always have to mean doing more, but that, with the right partners, it can simply mean being more fully supported.
With all of this in mind, Benvenuti Arts provides expertise for groups, meeting them where they are. We and our clients are whole people, so we recognize that inflexible processes and ten-point plans don’t work for every human. We provide support around all areas of arts administration – fundraising, management, finance, producing, marketing, human resources, planning, and more – through processes customized to the client.
We seek to partner and teach, not make you dependent on us forever. If you have a need, chances are, we have a solution.
Our Services
Grants Management
Event Coordination
Interim Management Services
Fundraising and Development
Short and Long-Term Planning
Leadership Support
“ My experience working directly with Benvenuti Arts over the past two years has been nothing but a positive one that has resulted in our organization receiving more grants and communicating with more funders than ever before. My interaction with the representatives from BA are professional and hugely supportive in a variety of ways. I feel confident about the grant writing as well as their (BA’s) understanding of the nuanced world of the funding community. High fives all around!
Kyle Houser
Executive Director, Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media
“ Sarah Benvenuti has been a huge part of taking The Indie Theater Fund to the next level back in 2015. With her help, we received our first grant from NYSCA and we were able to pay one part time employee. Sarah and the BA team are diligent, responsive and have a wealth of information in the development and fundraising field. We have been gladly continueing working with her to help grow our organization ever since.
Randi Berry
Executive Director, Indiespace
Erika Floreska
Executive Director, Bloomingdale School of Music
“ Brava. And thank you for modeling what progressive leadership looks like in practice. So grateful to know you and your team.
Paul Brewster McGinley
Managing Director, Trusty Sidekick Theater Company
“ Working with Sarah Benvenuti at Benvenuti Arts has been a life-changing experience for me as a founder of a new theatre company. She has been instrumental in helping Shakespeare Downtown grow as an organization – guiding us to focus on appropriate grants, suggesting grants we had not applied for (which we then won), editing our grant applications, and helping us to formulate long-term plans for the organization. There is no possible way I can recommend working with her enough.
Billie Andersson
Executive Director, Shakespeare Downtown
“ Sarah has become an important part of our development team and strategy. Over the last year she has lightened the load on our staff by finding and applying for new grants and working with us on our annual fundraising campaigns. We have had a significant uptick in our unearned income due to her work. She has been a pleasure to work with and bringing her on board has been a great investment.
Paula Marchiel
Managing Director, id Theater
“ Sarah Benvenuti has been a huge part of taking The Indie Theater Fund to the next level in 2015. With her help, we received our first grant from NYSCA and we are now able to pay one part time employee. Sarah is diligent, responsive and has a wealth of information in the development and fundraising field. We will gladly continue working with her to help grow our organization.
Randi Berry
Executive Director, The Indie Theater Fund
“ I’ve had the pleasure of working with Sarah for four years as she helped our medium sized non-profit establish a development department from a small effort supported by 1/2 time person, to a robust department securing increased support from board, individuals, government, foundations, corporate, and events. As our staff grew, Sarah focused on our events. As the lead driver, she would keep us on task and focussed on the priorities and deadlines that needed to be attended to. Growing our silent auction, motivating committee members, and moving us to an online platform, we saw growth and broader engagement. Sarah is responsive, efficient, productive, and professional.
Erika Floreska
Executive Director, Bloomingdale School of Music
“ Sarah Benvenuti is a thoughtful, dedicated, efficient, and thorough development consultant. She has the attention to detail coupled with the passion for the cause needed to develop excellent grants, maintain relationships with funders, and forward the goals of our organization!
Amanda Selwyn
Artistic/Executive Director, Notes in Motion
“ Working with Sarah Benvenuti at Benvenuti Arts has been a life-changing experience for me as a founder of a new theatre company. She has been instrumental in helping Shakespeare Downtown grow as an organization – guiding us to focus on appropriate grants, suggesting grants we had not applied for (which we then won), editing our grant applications, and helping us to formulate long-term plans for the organization. There is no possible way I can recommend working with her enough.
Billie Andersson
Executive Director, Shakespeare Downtown
Our Clients
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