Lauren DeSimone

    Senior Consultant
    Lauren-DeSimone

    An alum of DBD Group coaching during her YMCA days, Lauren DeSimone, CFRE, focuses on providing excellent support to nonprofit professionals and volunteers looking to grow their mission and help their clients thrive. With over 15 years of varied experience in nonprofit fundraising, Lauren seeks to share her “on the ground” lessons learned and serve as a sounding board for nonprofits as they overcome today’s philanthropic obstacles.

    Lauren believes every donor matters and has a passion for annual giving and radical stewardship. Lauren puts this passion into practice by managing the Virtual Annual Giving Academy for DBD Group. Additionally, Lauren provides counsel for:

    • Annual giving strategies
    • Development staff coaching
    • Mobilizing volunteers
    • Data analytics, donor research and donor database management
    • Donor-centered culture of philanthropy
    • Community phase of capital campaigns
    • Retaining donors through partnerships and mergers

    A graduate of North Central College, Lauren resides in the western suburbs of Chicago with her husband and son. Lauren enjoys spending her free time with her family and volunteering at her local YMCA.

    Phone/Fax (toll-free):877.393.3904
    Phone (direct):630.802.7651

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    • "Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but the seed you plant."

      Robert Louis Stevenson

    • "Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have."

      Margaret Mead

    • "You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

      John Bunyan

    • "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

      John Quincy Adams

    • "No one has ever become poor by giving."

      Anne Frank

    • "It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves."

      Charles Dudley Warner

    • "It's every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."

      Robert F. Kennedy

    • "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

      Frederick Douglass

    • "Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."

      Ken Hakuta

    • "Philanthropy is the mystical mingling of a joyous giver, an artful asker, and a grateful recipient."

      Douglas M. Lawson

    • "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

      Jim Rohn

    • "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

      Winston Churchill

    • "Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

      Henry David Thoreau

    • "The greatest problem with volunteers is not killing them with overwork, but simply boring them to death. Causes don't need workers as much as they need informed, dedicated and passionate advocates."

      Harold J. Seymour

    • "A civilization flourishes when people plant trees under which they will never sit."

      Greek Proverb

    • "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone."

      Gladyn Browyn Stern

    • "What a world this would be if we just built bridges instead of walls."

      Carlos Ramirez

    • "I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

      Maya Angelou

    • "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

      Mother Teresa

    • "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who sought and found out how to serve."

      Albert Schweitzer