about esther

Esther Saehyun Lee, MA, she/her, is the Principal and Founder of Elevate Philanthropy Consulting. She is a Community-Centric fundraiser, storyteller, and advocate. She works to mobilize resources to communities and challenge and dismantle systems of power in the nonprofit sector to ground its practices towards equity and justice.

She helps nonprofits increase their revenue, implement fundraising processes and structures in a CCF lens, and has demonstrated increase in both revenue and donor base. She is regularly asked to speak about Community-Centric Fundraising, Equity in Practice, Ethical Storytelling, and Identity and Belonging.

She is dedicated to advancing the mission of justice in the nonprofit sector and does so in her roles as a Community-Centric Fundraising (CCF) Global Council member, the Asian Fundraisers in Canada Collective Planning Committee, and Interim Board Member of Association of Fundraising Professionals Greater Toronto Chapter.

She is a movement builder dedicated to making space for people of colour within the nonprofit sector. In addition to these titles, she is an amateur banjo player and cat mom.