Midnight fundraiser is from the INQUIRING mind of gianna santelli.

Raised on pecorino romano and the internet - Gianna has a unique approach to life that makes her well-suited to raising hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Gianna has worked in Non-Profit Development for over a decade but her origin story is nearly 20 years old. It all started when she convinced her high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance to raise money for NYC AIDS Walk. The thrill of earning the $1000+ paper crown and being personally thanked by that one guy from “I Love the 80s” forever changed her brain chemistry.

You can find Gianna in her home state of New Jersey (although she did do the city thing for a while). Now, she has a grapefruit pink couch and lives with a feral cat in an old building that still has a dumbwaiter. She likes to do yoga about four times a month and is trying to read more books.

All this to say, she knows what she’s talking about when it comes to raising money. She has produced events for hundreds of guests, managed government grant submissions, maintained donor databases and crafted many successful year-end campaigns. She even does handwritten thank you notes. To learn more about Gianna find her on LinkedIn.