About Frances Anamosa

Frances Anamosa is a donor prospect researcher and database consultant, and she is the co-owner of Anamosa, Inc.  Frances has a B.A. degree in Photography and Design from the California Institute of the Arts and a M.S. degree in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia.  Frances has a long history in research and grant-writing in the world of non-profit foundations and philanthropy.  Frances was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica working with community health clinics coordinating resources from a global charity and the European Union.  She worked for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Senegal, Africa conducting research and grant-writing for the Senegalese National Park Service.  She returned to the United States in 1996 and joined the development office at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, where she rose from Manager of Development Database and Research to the Grants and Research Administrator.  In early 2006, she established her own company, Anamosa Inc., where she specializes in donor prospect research for non-profit organizations in identifying individuals and organizations that may support their social causes and in database consulting for the Blackbaud database, Raiser's Edge®.