Vanessa Chase Lockshin

Vanessa Chase Lockshin is an international non-profit consultant, thought leader, trainer, and speaker. She’s part of the next generation of professionals bringing change to the non-profit sector and challenging conventions.

Vanessa founded The Storytelling Non-Profit in 2012 to help not-for-profit organizations articulate their impact to donors in a new way, using narrative techniques to generate greater personal interest and accountability, thereby improving their fundraising success. Today, The Storytelling Non-Profit provides consulting, training, and coaching to non-profits around the world.

Vanessa’s fundraising career started at The University of British Columbia, her alma mater. Other clients have included: Union Gospel Mission, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Cancer Care Connection, Universal Outreach Foundation, Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine, Love Global Foundation, A Rocha Canada, The Wellmen Project, and SHARE Family and Community Services. To date, she has helped these organizations raise over $10 million.

As a recognized expert in communications and storytelling, Vanessa has been invited to speak at a number of events and associations including: NetSquared Vancouver; Artez Interactive; UBC Impact Labs and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education; Association of Donor Relations Professionals; The Nonprofit Storytelling Conference; Blackbaud Conference for Non-Profits; and Barnard College

Currently, Vanessa is President of The Storytelling Non-Profit, Co-Founder of Stewardship School, and Board Chair of Women Against Violence Against Women. Although she stays busy with work, she enjoys cooking with her husband, reading, crafting, and corresponding with friends by snail mail.