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The Design Museum of Chicago & the Importance of Public Art

Part Retrospective, Part Reflective, Park Exploration by Tanya Pietrkowski Life is art and everything around you is designed. Design...

My Year in Review as a Fundraising Consultant-Gratitude & Candid Reflection

By Tanya Pietrkowski, TP Strategies As I began this new era of my career last January as a fundraising consultant, I didn’t know where it...

Finding Faith through Trauma, An Interview with the Irrepressible Annie Hex, Poetry Witch

By Tanya Pietrkowski, TPStrategies LLC Photo provided by Annie Hex of her composing her poem in the lobby of a Chelsea hotel. I call art...

Leading with Love, An Interview with Todd Belcore, Executive Director & Co-Founder of Social Change

By Tanya Pietrkowski, Founder of TP Strategies, LLC Photo of Todd Belcore, Executive Director & Co-Founder of Social Change As a special...

Hear about something wonderful-a conversation with Leah Greenblum regarding Jewish Free Loan Chicago

by Tanya Pietrkowski, TP Strategies Interest-free lending, considered the highest form of Jewish charity, goes back to Biblical times. ...

Before you chase your fundraising dreams, try a few exercises first.

As a serious voice student in high school, one of the most useful skills I learned was to imagine the muscle connection between my voice...

My Love Letter to Legal Aid

This post was a last blog I wrote on behalf of CARPLS Legal Aid after my 11-year professional journey at the organization. I've worked...

We Need to Support Our Visionaries

It’s a Sunday morning in the beginning of January and I’m working on year-end tax acknowledgments, which I have the wonderful issue of...

My Personal Principles as a Fundraiser, by Tanya Pietrkowski

My website is a work in progress, just as my consulting business is. Thanks to my daughter who noticed that the template language was...