Carolyn M. Appleton 737-300-7605 Austin, Texas USA carolyn@carolynmappleton.com carolynmappleton.com
Nonprofit Fundraising & Communications Carolyn’s primary professional affiliations are with APRA: Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement and TechSoup. She has always followed technological trends and has readily adopted innovative technologies in her nonprofit work with an eye to doing more with less. Carolyn’s father worked on the first manned moon mission in the 1960s and 1970s. He became the leader of the first team of engineers at NASA
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focused on sending men to Mars. Adopting new
Carolyn has 40 years of firsthand fundraising and
of Carolyn’s upbringing.
technologies and a “can do” attitude were integral parts
communications experience with nonprofit organizations across Texas and beyond. Her mission
Carolyn’s Nonprofit Blog (carolynmappleton.com) was
is to help organizations, communities, donors, and
launched in 2011. Today, it is visited by more than one
volunteers attain their fundraising, digital
hundred nations annually (no other authors nor
communications, and public relations goals in the
co-authors, designed and written solely by Carolyn).
most efficient, thoughtful, high-quality manner
From 2016 to 2021, Carolyn was the lead volunteer
possible. Carolyn has raised more than $34 million
organizer of Nonprofit Tech Club Austin, a partnership
and she is known for tackling challenging major gift
between NTEN, TechSoup and Capital Factory. She also
campaigns and turning them into success stories.
helped create the TechSoup disaster preparation and
Carolyn strives to inspire nonprofit organizations of
recovery course for nonprofits (available online), funded
all sizes and to help them learn what it takes to
by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. Carolyn is an
launch and succeed with major gift fundraising.
active TechSoup volunteer today.