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Lauren Vincent is a Boston, Massachusetts based grant writer and nonprofit development and communications professional who uses she and her pronouns. Her work centers on fundraising, foundation relations, and strategic communications, with a stated focus on making the world “better and fairer” through nonprofit and civic impact. She works at Summer Search and is part of the National Staff community, where she holds the position of Grant Writer and has also served as Foundation Relations Manager for the Boston site. Her background spans journalism, politics, and nonprofit work, and her profile highlights more than ten years of experience in development and communications roles across multiple mission-driven organizations.

At Summer Search, Lauren’s current responsibilities include managing a portfolio of foundation funders to meet the Boston site’s annual fundraising goal of $750,000 to $1 million, expanding the funding pipeline by identifying and cultivating relationships with local private and family foundations, and maintaining strong funder relationships in coordination with Boston-based development staff and the national team. Her role also involves collaborating closely with development and program colleagues to craft high-quality proposals and ensure accurate, on-time reporting to funders. Her Summer Search experience includes a Grant Writer role on the National Team (remote) starting in October 2025 and an ongoing Foundation Relations Manager role (hybrid) beginning in February 2025.

Before Summer Search, Lauren worked at Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound School (formerly Thompson Island Outward Bound) in Boston, where she progressed from Grants and Prospect Research Manager to Senior Manager of Grants and Prospect Research. In that role, she wrote, edited, and submitted grant proposals for corporate, foundation, and government funders and reported raising a record $1 million or more in grant funding across FY2021, FY2022, and FY2023. Her work also included managing external relationships with existing and new funders, serving as a liaison with the programs department to stay current on goals, data, evaluation systems, outcomes, and program delivery changes, researching grant opportunities and prospect trends, and supporting broader fundraising activity such as events, corporate volunteer programs, and annual fund efforts.

Her earlier experience includes serving as a Communications and Development Specialist at the Boston Private Industry Council, where she created and implemented a comprehensive communications strategy to strengthen the organization’s brand and visibility in the local workforce development landscape. That work included redesigning newsletter templates and industry convening websites, managing social media across platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, launching a youth outreach strategy via Instagram, and supporting grant and corporate sponsorship solicitation with data and story collection for reporting. She also worked at The Boston Foundation in Programs Data and Insight, first as an intern and later as an associate. There she helped administer The Giving Common online database by processing and reviewing nonprofit 990s and audited financial statements, produced a bimonthly e-newsletter for a subscriber base of more than 2,000 nonprofit partners, screened grant applications and contributed to funding recommendations, and worked with colleagues on a communications strategy and implementation plan related to the closure of Giving Common. She also conducted research and analysis on communicating foundation impact and on best practices for collecting demographic data for grantees, while continuing ongoing newsletter and application review work.

Lauren’s education includes a Master of Business Administration in Social Policy and Management from The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University (2018–2019) and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008–2012). Her UMass Amherst activities included University Democrats and The Daily Collegian, aligning with the journalism and politics threads mentioned in her bio. She also lists volunteer political campaign experience in 2012, canvassing and phone banking for Elizabeth Warren for Senate and Joe Kennedy for Congress. Her services and skills reflect a broad communications toolkit that includes grant writing, editing, copywriting, blogging, content strategy, social media marketing, digital marketing, graphic design, ghostwriting, and writing. She lists English as native or bilingual proficiency and Italian as professional working proficiency. Her stated causes include children, civil rights and social action, economic empowerment, education, environment, human rights, disaster and humanitarian relief, politics, poverty alleviation, and social services.

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