CURRENT CLIENTS
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
FRANK serves as development consultant to this Philadelphia home for Arab arts and culture — managing a grants portfolio with nearly $1M in active multi-year awards, building a pipeline of 15+ live applications, and strengthening board giving and donor cultivation.
Kaimera Productions
FRANK founder J.J. El-Far is a founding board member, providing development and grant consultation pro bono as her board gift — building Kaimera's first institutional funder pipeline to turn a decade of acclaimed immersive work into sustained contributed revenue.
Parent Artist Advocacy League
FRANK founder J.J. El-Far serves on PAAL's board, supporting this national network for parent-artists with development strategy, grants, and governance — refreshing the grant pipeline, strengthening bylaws and board giving, and unlocking PAAL's first data-driven individual giving program.
Root Quarterly
FRANK founder J.J. El-Far serves on Root Quarterly's Advisory Board as this Philadelphia print quarterly of art and ideas navigates a pivotal transition — expanding a grants program once limited by capacity into a full funder pipeline with a sustainable application cadence.
Rising Wing
Founded and led by FRANK founder J.J. El-Far, Rising Wing is a professional network for Philadelphia arts and culture workers. FRANK built its brand identity and content series and continues to steward the community through its Substack publication.
PAST CLIENTS & PROJECTS
Kronos Quartet
The Kronos Performing Arts Association engaged FRANK at a hard moment: federal grants terminated mid-year, $33K confirmed against a $200K goal. FRANK delivered a three-year development strategy targeting $3.2–4.5M, donor segmentation, giving and marketing strategies, and a brand audit.
Directors Gathering
FRANK designed and built Directors Gathering's donor CRM from blueprint to working system — identity architecture, deduplication logic, and RFM donor rankings with suggested asks — plus a 2026 grants pipeline ready to power the organization's next chapter of fundraising.
Mural Arts Philadelphia
When Mural Arts' Advancement Director departed, FRANK stepped in as interim senior development counsel — keeping fundraising on track for the nation's largest public art program, advising the team through the transition, and supporting the 2025 Wall Ball benefit.
Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
PVLA engaged FRANK to rebuild a dormant grants function. FRANK created and managed a 50+ opportunity pipeline and drafted applications across it — securing $45K+ in competitive 2025 awards, including $30,000 from the Maslow Family Foundation and $15,000 from Wyncote.
Nichole Canuso Dance Company
As fractional Advancement Director, FRANK turned ten years of donor history into a working segmentation, then delivered an integrated development and marketing strategy, a complete end-of-year appeal package in print and digital, and a brand redesign for the company's next chapter.
Cannonball Festival
FRANK led all marketing and communications for Cannonball 2025 — 131 shows under one promotional system — driving 13,088 tickets, $203,454 in sales (+41% year over year), a 215% Instagram jump, and 46 earned-media mentions reaching roughly 4.5 million people.
Queen Esther
This acclaimed New York multidisciplinary artist had no grants infrastructure. FRANK built her first curated funding pipeline — prioritized opportunities from Princess Grace to NYSCA, mapped to her project slate — with a 90-day action plan and a reusable application kit.
Practice Space Collective
As Creative Producer for "It's Time We Pay Them a Visit," FRANK scoped the national tour — presenting circuit, funder targets, and a company pitch deck — and once turned around a complete festival application overnight to make a next-day deadline.
DiasporaDNA Story Center
As Fractional Advancement Director in DiasporaDNA's inaugural year, FRANK built the development function from zero — board giving, grants pipeline, individual giving, and multi-year strategy — securing the organization's first multi-year programming grant: six figures, won in year one.
Patricia Moss Vreeland
Project consultation for a major new body of work by this acclaimed Philadelphia artist — shaping the concept, recommending partners and collaborators, and building the proposal deck she now uses to bring the project to prospective partners and funders.
