Engaging Funders Through Effective Storytelling

October 1, 2025

10:00:00 AM - 11:30:00 AM

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Join us for an interactive session, working on building the confidence and skills you need to successfully ask for and secure funding!

Facilitated by Kathy Carliner, Senior Vice President, Client Services & Strategy of Rosica Communications, this interactive virtual event will give you the skills you need to effectively connect with potential funding partners. It combines best practices instruction with a chance to role play and try out your new skills.

Kathy and your fellow peers will provide real time feedback to help you hone your pitch. This event will help you build the confidence and skills you need to successfully ask for and secure funding.


About the facilitator

Kathy Carliner
Senior Vice President, Client Services & Strategy
Rosica Communications

For more than 30 years, Kathy has served nonprofit and corporate clients with award-winning brand strategy, media training, creativity, writing services, and hands-on client management. Kathy is a dynamic PR practitioner who is personally invested in her clients’ success. She brings energy, drive, and positivity to her work, which results in productive collaboration, lasting partnerships, and meaningful impact. Kathy is a tireless advocate for her clients’ interests and has managed numerous award-winning PR campaigns.

Kathy is a highly effective media and public speaking trainer who has helped hundreds of nonprofit executive executives, CEOs, authors, educators, and subject matter experts communicate effectively with the press and internal and external audiences. She had her own media training company prior to joining Rosica where she specialized in helping to develop personal branding and effective storytelling for any audience.

Kathy has lectured on personal branding and storytelling at Columbia University, Williams College, Rutgers University, and Seton Hall University, among others. She was an adjunct professor at Drew University, where she taught business writing. Kathy grew up in Massachusetts where she earned her B.A. from Williams College.



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By registering for this event, you are giving the Grunin Foundation permission to use photos and video on our website and social media. You will also be added to the Grunin Foundation mailing list.

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