The arts deserve serious funding, and a team who knows how to raise it.
From leading your development department to running one-off public art projects and fundraising campaigns, Bloom helps you secure the resources your mission needs.
Trusted by arts organizations nationwide:
A donor pipeline that keeps moving. Asks that land. Gifts acknowledged on time.
And you, finally free to lead instead of carrying the effort yourself.
Getting there usually means hiring a development director. But that's a six-figure salary, months of searching and onboarding, and the risk of the wrong fit. The other route — a patched-together team of part-timers and freelancers — leaves no one owning the strategy so it still lands back on you.
Bloom Arts Strategy is your solution. We’re a senior-level fundraising team that works alongside you, not another hire to manage. And we cost a fraction of one full-time salary.
In just 6 weeks, Baltimore School for the Arts tripled their year-end campaign.
Their annual appeal had plateaued at $12,000 and 24 donors. By pairing direct mail with student storytelling and board members making personal asks, we brought in $36,000 from 66 donors.
Work with us:
Embedded Fundraising Leadership
A external development department that feels full-time. Coverage scales to your budget and what your team needs, and can include:
Annual development planning
Campaign creation and execution
Donor pipeline management
Major gift solicitation coaching
Development systems build-out
Gift entry & acknowledgement management
Or, we can work with your team to reach a specific goal:
Fundraising Accelerator Program
A 10-week cohort for teams that want to build their own fundraising skills instead of outsourcing.
Campaign & Project Management
We guide a specific campaign or project from concept to completion with senior strategy and hands-on management.
Grant Management
We find the right grant opportunities, submit compelling applications on time, and handle the reporting.
Stacy Handler is an artist herself, with unparalleled expertise in arts fundraising.
Stacy trained as a performer, achieved an MA in Performing Arts Administration from NYU, and rose through several leading arts organizations to become Managing Director of a dance company.
She founded Bloom in 2023 on one guiding conviction: arts organizations deserve real resources, not the scarcity the field has been told to accept. Since then, she's raised ~$4M for more than 25 arts organizations.
Now she and her team are poised to help your organization reach its fundraising goals.
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Ready to bloom?
From ongoing fundraising support to one-off projects, we make sure your mission is backed by the resources it deserves.
The first step is a free, no-pressure, 30-minute intro call.