For 29 years, I have met brilliant survivors, advocates, leaders, and consultants. These amazing people know how to bolster a board, strengthen a grant application, build a fundraising plan, analyze policies, strengthen service administration, mentor emerging leaders, and hold a team together through hard seasons.
What we haven't had is a system built to find this survivor-centered expertise, book it, and pay experts directly.
As a federal funder, I saw both sides. Programs needed help with boards, grants, fundraising, data analysis, and workplace culture. Funders wanted to send their grantees to people they could trust. Too often, there was no clear place to look.
So I built one.
The Survivor-Centered Expert Services Network lives on the Advocates Paying Advocates Marketplace. It brings together advocates, survivor-leaders, and consultants offering the advisory and strategic services our field asks for most, from Board Governance and Grant Application Review to Culturally Specific Strategy, Workplace Culture, and Fractional Leadership.
There are three ways to join this network or to connect with it:
If you are an expert: You get a professional profile with your photo, rates, intro video, and a direct booking button. Clients book and pay you directly. You keep 100% of what you earn, with no commission. The listing is $99 a year, charged only after your application is approved. Learn more: https://advocatespayingadvocatesmarketplace.com/pages/survivorcenteredexpertservices
If you are an organization: Tell us what you need in a three-minute form, and we will match you with experts who fit your needs and timeline. Start here: https://advocatespayingadvocatesmarketplace.com/pages/survivor-centered-consultants
If you are a funder: We source capacity-building experts for your grantees. You receive a short list with profiles, rate quotes, and reference notes, and you contract directly with the expert you choose. See how it works: https://advocatespayingadvocatesmarketplace.com/pages/capacitybuildingexpertsourcingforfunder
Browse the network: https://advocatespayingadvocatesmarketplace.com/pages/survivor-centered-expert-services-network
What this newsletter will bring you: expert spotlights, practical ways organizations are using expert support, and live events where I feature the experts in this network.
Join me tomorrow: Get Featured as a Survivor-Centered Expert, Thursday, October 1 · 12:00–12:45 PM ET · Free · Google Meet
I will walk through how the network works, who it is for, what the application asks for, and how experts get seen once they are listed.
Register here: https://links.ivorey.io/widget/booking/6nfEtsKDOsL0QXOr5kJR.
One note: if you clicked "attending" on the LinkedIn event, please also register at the link above. That is how the Meet link and reminders reach you.
Your mission and your financial future both matter. I can’t wait to show you what I’ve built! I hope to see you tomorrow.
In partnership & strategy,
Shawndell