Davita is Fundraising Manager — Capital Campaign at the Great Plains Black History Museum in Omaha. The museum has three staff, a modest annual budget, and a fifty-year record of founding grants from the U.S. Bicentennial Commission, IMLS, and NHPRC. She signed up to Granted in April and started building a capital-campaign funder universe — broad searches at first, then named funders: Wolfson, the 1772 Foundation’s African American Experience program, New Markets Tax Credit allocations, the Nebraska CCCFF and SBDF. She saved more than twenty grants, tracked three foundations, and built a $15.2M campaign portfolio inside the product. She did not write a single grant section in Granted. She did not need to. What she taught the team building Granted is that the capital-campaign job is portfolio research, not chat-with-RFP. The pipeline Board/Table toggle, the funder-amount roll-up, and the section-auto-draft-from-mission flow Granted is shipping next all came from watching her work. On May 13 her Douglas County Visitor Improvement Fund grant was marked AWARDED. $300,000.
What’s the one thing you’d want a reviewer to remember about this project — is it the 50-year legacy, the fact that this is Nebraska’s only African American history museum, the North Omaha revitalization angle, or something else?
