Pearl D. Shaw, CFRE, is a fund development strategist and technical writer with management experience in the private and non-profit sectors. She has served as Development Director of the Women’s Funding Network, an association of 100-plus women and girls’ foundations, and as a major gifts officer for Mills College. Her private-sector experience includes business development and marketing. Prior to forming Saad & Shaw Comprehensive Fund Development Services she headed her own firm, Phrased Write, providing non-profit organizations with proposal writing, executive coaching, and strategic fund development services including major gifts work. Proposals she wrote secured a combined $6 million-plus for clients such as the Omega Boys Club, Regional Technical Training Center, Centro de Servicios, Bay Area Black United Fund, and American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, San Francisco.

As the principal writer for Saad & Shaw Pearl writes the weekly column FUNdraising Good Times and is the writer and co-author of the book The Fundraiser's Guide to Soliciting Gifts: Turning Prospects into Donors and the forthcoming Prerequisites for Fundraising Success.

Pearl served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Development Executives Roundtable from 2002 to 2008, and is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, a Master’s in Public Administration from California State University East Bay, and is a Certified Fundraising Executive.

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