The FUNdevelopers

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Regenerating Resilient
Communities  for

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Earth

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Let’s Chat.  Hi, my name is Jamie Black. I am the founder of The FUNdevelopers, a new arm of support after 22 years in the field as a professional outdoor guide, professional marketer, and professional fund developer.  I founded Wild Craft Play and Behavior Intervention support with the SoLe Adventure program, in 2004. Now with a Master of Arts in Environmental Education and Communicatoin, and years of supporting hundreds of people and projects, I have come to understand that the best way to help you and the Earth, is to change the narrative, help you find your story and make life easier online.

Due to limited reception on Quadra Island, we do need to schedule a call, I’d hate to miss you!

Jamie Black, MA, BI, NCC, NT
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Our Philosophy & Approach

We believe in teaching you how to fish for your funds!

Give a person a fish,  they eat for a day.

Teach a person to fish, they eat for a lifetime.

We FUNdevelopers want to help you help yourself, at whatever level and capacity you have. With 22+ years in the field of funding and developing fun things for youth and the Earth, and over 30 different cases, it’s time to teach you how to help yourself. We are a team of passionate people here to support youth, protecting the Earth, strengthening communities.

What if raising money also builds confidence, leadership, and real-world skills? What if communities didn’t have to struggle alone?Jamie Black

We don’t just do the work for you. We coach and guide you through systems and strategies that are technically daunting alone, but manageable together. We help you build something that keeps working long after our engagement ends.

You Share Your Vision

Tell us about your initiative and community. We listen deeply before we plan anything.

We Build the Strategy Together

We build the strategy together

We coach you through the hard parts

We coach you through the hard parts

Funds arrive. Capacity Grows

You keep the rest — and the skills to keep going.

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Four Initiatives we’re building right now.

Youth Development

Youth Leadership Skills

Supporting 50+ youth in developing real-world leadership, communication, and employability skills through meaningful community projects. Young people gain confidence, responsibility, and a clear path forward.

 

 

Inclusion & Access

Neurodivergent Access to Life Skills & Employment

Creating accessible pathways to real employment for neurodivergent individuals — including our own design and video team who contribute meaningfully to every project we deliver.

Community Collaboration

Community Building Quest on Quadra

A community-wide initiative on Quadra Island bringing residents, youth, and organizations together through exploration, teamwork, and shared challenges that strengthen local bonds.

 

Earth Preservation

Beach Cleanup Prevention Initiative

Going beyond one-time cleanups — focusing on prevention through education, community engagement, and youth-led environmental stewardship along our coastlines.

 

We help FUNdraisers make life easier.

Helping FUNdraisers build systems and strategies that work.

 

We believe in teaching you how to fish. Our role isn’t to create dependency — it’s to coach and guide you through a journey that can feel technically overwhelming alone, while building your capacity along the way.

Our creative work — design, video, and storytelling — is proudly produced by a team of young and neurodivergent minds who bring fresh perspective and appreciate meaningful employment.

 

 

 

 

How We Can Help You Develop Funds

Content & Communications Tracking

We manage your outreach, track funder communications, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Systems Development

Workflows, tracking systems, and processes that make your work repeatable, scalable, and yours to own long-term.

Assessments & Milestones

Regular check-ins, progress reporting, and milestone tracking so you always know where you stand and what comes next.

Guidance & Consulting

Strategic direction when you need it. We act as a thinking partner and advisor — helping you make confident, informed decisions.

Large Organizational Support

We help larger organizations navigate complexity — coordinating teams, managing deliverables, keeping big initiatives on track.

Streamlining & Simplifying

We find what’s slowing you down and fix it — cutting redundancy and making your operation leaner and stronger.

Burnout Prevention

We actively take things off your plate so you and your team can sustain the work for years — not just survive the next deadline.
 

Presentations & Pitch Decks

Compelling decks that get funders and sponsors to say yes — designed and written to represent your best work.

Ready To Go Fishing?

 

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Testimonials

See for yourself what other’s have to say about the programs with these testimonials.

It is the magic of wonderment that ignites a sense of ownership, responsibility, inclusiveness and togetherness.Jamie Black
“All of them worked on what they were passionate about, it was part of what they were selling and what they were creating. Now they’ve gone beyond that, outside the classroom. All of them have… Wild Craft Play brings back the magic.” Kelli Rosenbeck

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