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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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Reach out to discuss how our strategic consulting and operational troubleshooting can support your mission.

+1 (719) 930-3390

hello@csourcefundraising.com

Let’s Connect

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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:

  • Hundreds of fundraising, policy, nonprofit, and stakeholder events coordinated across Colorado and Texas

  • Fundraising initiatives and events

  • Executive and policy events serving

  • Government affairs and coalition coordination at the state and local level

  • Grant research and grant calendar development 

  • Operational leadership and development support for nonprofit and advocacy organizations

  • Stakeholder engagement across campaigns, issue committees, nonprofits, and public affairs initiatives

  • 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.

  • Independence Institute

  • Texas Public Policy Foundation

  • Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center

  • Citizen Soldier Connection

  • Independent Institute

  • AJS Consulting Group

  • Colorado statewide campaigns

  • Local statewide legislative campaigns

  • Local and statewide issue committees

  • Government affairs and advocacy initiatives

  • Nonprofit fundraising organizations

  • Community and stakeholder coalitions

  • Public policy and civic engagement events

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