Team Kat & Mouse
Our Approach
From charities whose founders are in the building to huge Nonprofits that are run like corporations, we have seen it all. We understand management has so many tasks on their plates that sometimes nonprofit leadership training gets put on the back burner. This is why we started Team Kat & Mouse.
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Meet the Team
Our consultants for fundraisers will train your staff, coach your team through new skills and techniques on an on-going basis, and even help identify and onboard new employees.
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Our goal is to be your partner, to save you time to plan, strategize and grow!
The Kat- Managing Partner
Meet Sharon Kitroser. She spent 25 years in media and advertising sales and management before turning her skills into a decade-long career in nonprofit fundraising.
She has a passion for training and watching people grow and reach their potential.
Her fundraising magic powers are storytelling, corporate fundraising, and partnerships.
She also says she can get anyone on the phone.
Want to test her skills?
Reach out her today.
The Mouse-Partner
Meet Amy Mauser, She has spent almost two decades building and leading fundraising teams.
Her experience includes work with donors and organizations committed, arts, healthcare, education, and community impact missions. Amy’s fundraising magic power is individual giving - working with donors to envision impact and working with organizations to identify the donors most likely to join them in imagining initiatives and change.
Amy can review your spreadsheets or CRM data and find the opportunities that you may have missed (and she can help you design your CRM structure too).
Reach out to Amy
Meet Ben Chambers, He is the Director of Grant Services.
Ben was the first addition to the Team Kat & Mouse Collective.
His career has included a wide range of nonprofit and public advocacy organizations, from the academic field to public radio and frontline fundraising.
These days, his favorite cause is researching, writing, and winning grants for our Team Kat & Mouse client partners (Ben’s magic power).
Want to hear about the $750,000 grant he won for trees- really cool trees!
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Meet Linda Puoplo. Her career has always sharply focused on building thriving communities which only happens through effective and genuine community engagement, dynamic community partnerships, shared visioning, and strategic planning that deliver real results. She is thrilled to contribute her skills and experience to Team Kat & Mouse as they assist nonprofits in accomplishing
their mission.​​
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Meet Joel Eaton, Creative Director.He has been working in the nonprofit sector his entire professional life but he started working in nonprofit marketing almost a decade ago. Because of this unique experience he knows what it’s like to be the client as well as the consultant. Over the years he has learned that unlike mainstream marketing, nonprofit marketing isn’t about what is flashy and slick, but about what connects with the hearts of donors. It’s his goal to help our clients tell their stories in a way that increases response. That’s the ultimate goal, everything else is just gravy.
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Here's what they are saying about Team Kat & Mouse - Consultants for Fundraisers
"The 100 Black Men of Greater Florida GNV has consulted with the Kat and Mouse team for the last two years. Recently the team's help with our Annual Giving Campaign has been extremely valuable. The Kat and Mouse team is organized, knowledgeable, and always exceeds expectations. I would highly recommend the Kat and Mouse team for your Nonprofit and Development Consultant needs."
-Jamar Hebert
Chairman and President, 100 Black Men of Greater Florida GNV, Inc.
As we all continue to experience, it is not an easy task to shine a light among those for whom it is easier to remain in the dark.
Thank you for your input in helping us to secure a stronger foundation for fundraising and for trying new approaches to reach untapped donors at a time when even nationally donations have significantly dropped.
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Dr. Connie Siskowski
Founder & President of the American Association of Caregiving Youth
We have been working with the Kat & Mouse team since the end of last year to help increase our fundraising efforts. I have nothing but great things to say about their team. Sharon recently conducted a Board training that was engaging and encouraged the directors to develop their personalized story that spoke to their why. The ‘what’ means nothing without a ‘why’.
The Board articulated that this powerful concept completely changed the way in which they would speak about our organization that they believe would create a fundraising pipeline.
Most importantly, Kat & Mouse truly care about the people they work with. They’re attentive to our needs and they provide out of the box solutions. I highly recommend Kat & Mouse!
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Lisa Cobb
Executive Director
Youth Empowered to Prosper
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We love working with Team Kat and Mouse. They took the time to truly understand our organization, goals, and network of partners. Team Kat & Mouse used tailored examples relevant to our partner's work and went above and beyond creating original materials and tools they could use in their day-to-day. The team is very receptive to feedback and continuously works with us to ensure we are happy with their work. Their training has been very helpful to our partners with their marketing and fundraising efforts!
Raffaella Glasser​, Network Capacity Manager
City Harvest New York
The moment we paired Amy and Sharon together as leaders, we saw the power of combining their unique mix of talents - classic fundraising smarts and relentless sales management skills - on both the bottom line and long-term donor retention rates. They are as powerful a pair of results-driven change agents as I have worked with.
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Rob Levine - long-time non-profit CEO .
Sharon & Ben education us on how to fundraise. They helped us focus our mission create new relationships that will increase our impact. They have become our teachers and mentors and changed the way we work forever. They also had us work with Joel to create a new website that presents our mission and impact in a clear and understandable way. We just love Team Kat & Mouse!
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Patti Lehrhoff- Board Chair TeamWork Educational Foundation
Amy and Sharon were fabulous mentors to me. They complement each other well, bringing a wealth of knowledge in non-profit strategy and coaching. Any team would benefit from their expertise, their passion, and their unwavering commitment to helping others be successful."
Laura Barker
Director of Philanthropy, HomeSafe Florida
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