Who We Are
Cherish St. Denis
CEO
Lorelai Schaffer
Executive Assistant
Cherish is a connector, strategist, and problem-solver with a background spanning nonprofit leadership, fundraising, public policy, advocacy, political campaigns, and operations. Her experience includes supporting nonprofit organizations, candidates, issue campaigns, and public-interest initiatives at both the local and statewide levels in Colorado and Texas. As the founder of C Source, she works with organizations to provide practical guidance, strong coordination, and real-world execution for projects that strengthen communities and advance important work.
Lorelai supports C Source through administrative coordination, event logistics, scheduling support, and on-site event assistance. She assists with organization, communications, materials preparation, and day-of coordination to help projects and events run smoothly.
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Experience & Clients
Experience
C Source brings more than 25 years of experience supporting small and mid-sized nonprofits, advocacy organizations, campaigns, public affairs initiatives, and executive leadership teams across Colorado and Texas. Work has included strategic consulting, fundraising, stakeholder engagement, government affairs, operational support, and large-scale event coordination.
Experience includes coordinating hundreds of fundraising, policy, nonprofit, and stakeholder events ranging from small community gatherings to complex statewide initiatives. Past work has included managing multi-state donor engagement efforts, overseeing fundraising initiatives exceeding $550,000, coordinating executive and policy events with more than 1,000 attendees, and supporting campaigns, issue committees, and advocacy efforts at both the state and local level.
C Source has also provided operational leadership, grant strategy, coalition coordination, CRM integration, nonprofit development support, and government affairs engagement across a wide range of organizations and industries.
Experience includes:
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Hundreds of fundraising, policy, nonprofit, and stakeholder events coordinated across Colorado and Texas
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Fundraising initiatives and events
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Executive and policy events serving
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Government affairs and coalition coordination at the state and local level
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Grant research and grant calendar development
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Operational leadership and development support for nonprofit and advocacy organizations
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Stakeholder engagement across campaigns, issue committees, nonprofits, and public affairs initiatives
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CRM integration and donor communication support for nonprofit organizations
Selected Organizations
C Source has supported nonprofits, advocacy organizations, campaigns, coalitions, and community initiatives across Colorado and Texas through strategic consulting, fundraising, stakeholder engagement, operations, and event coordination.
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Independence Institute
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Texas Public Policy Foundation
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Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center
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Citizen Soldier Connection
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Independent Institute
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AJS Consulting Group
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Colorado statewide campaigns
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Local statewide legislative campaigns
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Local and statewide issue committees
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Government affairs and advocacy initiatives
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Nonprofit fundraising organizations
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Community and stakeholder coalitions
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Public policy and civic engagement events