Case for Support Development

Free Brands helps survivors of trafficking and gender-based violence build businesses and lasting economic freedom, and we would like to work with a marketing or fundraising professional to craft a case for support that carries that message to everyone who reads it. It will become the foundational document we adapt across grant applications, sponsorship pitches, and donor conversations, and it needs to speak to our full community of stakeholders, from the survivor entrepreneurs at the heart of our work to the donors, foundations, and corporate partners who help us grow.

At its core, our work asks people to see survivors differently. Most programs are built around crisis, and survivors are too often seen, and come to see themselves, through that narrow lens. Free Brands exists to shift that perspective, to recognize survivors as entrepreneurs building something lasting. We want this document to carry that shift, so everyone who reads it, from a funder to a survivor deciding whether this is for her, comes away seeing entrepreneurship as real and possible.

We envision the volunteer starting with discovery to understand our mission and model, then helping us draft the document with our full range of audiences in mind. We have a sense of what it might include, such as the need, our solution, our impact and the evidence we have so far, our goals and strategies, our financial needs, a call to action, and recognition and stewardship, and we are open to the volunteer’s guidance on what belongs and how to shape it. The work would include several rounds of review, along with any support we need to use the document well once it is complete.

Right now our biggest limit is not our model or our results, it is our ability to tell the story in a way that moves people to invest. That is exactly the gap your skills fill. The words you help us find will sit at the center of every grant application, every sponsor conversation, and every donor ask we make, which means your work keeps funding real programs and putting real dollars into survivor-owned businesses. For a solo founder wearing every hat, a professional who can shape our story into something fundable is one of the highest-impact gifts we could receive, and its effect compounds with every future ask we build on it.

We are ready to move quickly. As the founder, I lead this work directly and will make myself readily available throughout discovery, which keeps feedback fast and consistent. We are early in our journey but have real ground to build on, including our founder’s research on survivor entrepreneurship, data from our holiday pilot, what we have learned from the business owners in our community, and our current financial picture and budget planning. All of it is ready to share. We are looking for a volunteer who can help us translate this research and momentum into a narrative that resonates with the people we are asking to invest in us.