Newsletter | December 2025 Subject: No Partridge in a Pear Tree… Just Big Wins and Bigger Surprises
Client Spotlight: Washington School for Girls
This month, we’re celebrating Washington School for Girls’ powerful progress in advancing equity through education — and their grant writing successes with Spark Point.
Together, with their development team, we strengthened their approach, refined proposals, and secured funding to deepen impact for the young women they serve.
Click the link below and read about how strategic grant writing can turn mission-driven goals into measurable results.
In a Partridge-Free Pear Tree: 12 Fundraising Wins to Celebrate
This December, we’re skipping the pear tree and celebrating something far better: real fundraising wins.
| Welcome to our 12 Days of Fundraising Wins — a quick look at the moments, milestones, and mission-moving successes that defined this year for our clients (and the sector). Think of it as a year-end highlight reel, sung slightly off-key but delivered with a lot of heart. Ready to unwrap each one? |
| On the first day of fundraising, we delivered 450 submissions to our 2025 clients— proposals, LOIs, reports, stewardship updates, and concept notes. On the second day of fundraising, a client celebrated a huge win: Washington School For Girls is about to close their multi-million-dollar capital campaign, and in January, the girls move into their new facility. On the third day of fundraising, we leveled up Reading Is Fundamental from Prospect Sprint to Fired Up Grants—turning new prospects into real strategy and loads of new written submissions. |
2025: The Bingo Cards We Never Saw Coming
As we reflect on the wins, we want to also share some of our surprises, and plot twists that shaped our year. We decided to lighten things up and ask our team a simple question:
“What did you not have on your 2025 bingo card?”
From unexpected hobbies to unexpected hope, our staff had some great answers — the kind that remind us we’re all human, multifaceted, and navigating this wild year together.
Here are a few of our favorites:
More positivity in the new year coming soon… stay tuned..
Reply to our email to share what you didn’t expect to have on your 2025 bingo card?