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 vast experience includes supporting many 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 Fundraising, she works with organizations to provide practical guidance, strong coordination, and real-world execution for special projects that strengthen communities and advance important work.
Lorelai supports C Source Fundraising through administrative coordination, event logistics, scheduling support, and on and off-site event assistance. She assists with daily activities, 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 includes strategic consulting, fundraising, stakeholder engagement, government affairs, operational support, and small 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 includes managing multi-state donor engagement efforts; overseeing fundraising initiatives in excess of half a million dollars; coordinating executive and policy events with 1,000s attendees; and supporting campaigns, issue committees, and advocacy efforts at both the state and local levels.
C Source Fundraising 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 nonprofit leaders and elected officials
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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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WestBrooke Group
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Citizen Soldier Connection
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Independent Institute
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AJS Consulting Group
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State Policy Network
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The Vanguard School
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The Steamboat Institute
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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