Allison DeLauer is a poet and social-profit professional. Since 1996, she has worked with cultural organizations, artists, philanthropists, and social change agents in the Bay Area.
Her development career began at SFMOMA, SF Ballet, and Forest Ethics. Her consulting engagements have spanned the design world, social enterprise, environmental advocacy, and the arts. From research to coaching, she has interviewed thought leaders on global issues and philanthropic fund development. She has coached small arts organizations as they’ve developed their revenue streams, written grants and messaging copy, and has provided strategic counsel on the structure of burgeoning social enterprises— including how to identify key stakeholders and potential funders. Her clients include: Chicken & Egg Pictures, fuseproject, Fair Trade USA, Good World Solutions, KOMAZA, Opportunity Collaboration, The Taproot Foundation, and The Wilderness Society.
Allison’s poems and essays have appeared in literary journals, online, and in performance collaborations. Her most recent performance project, All I Wanted to Say premiered at the in San Francisco in 2011, and was translated into Italian for performances in Milan and Verona in 2012. She has received residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and The Caldera Center for the Arts, and Residenza al Teatro dei Venti di Modena. She earned a BA from the University of Redlands in Sociology and Anthropology and an MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts.
