Hello
Whether you need a coach, a fractional leader, or training for your team, my goal is to help you sow resilience and reap brilliance.
My Story
Since 2014, I’ve had the privilege of coming alongside nonprofit executives and founders to strengthen their confidence in fundraising. Sometimes that meant role-playing donor conversations while other times it looked like building calendars, strategic plans, or simply offering the encouragement that their passion was worth pursuing.
After serving more than twelve years in nonprofit executive leadership, I took a step back to spend time with my family and reconnect with my joy. In that season, I found myself called again to encourage burned out leaders, to help founders find their fundraising footing, and to guide boards in charting a clearer path forward.
The harvest nonprofits create must be tended to with care and intention. HarvestRenewal Coaching was born from that insight, and with a commitment to remind nonprofit executives of their value even on the hard days, to help strong missions find sustainability so they can grow, and to equip the next generation of leaders.
My Bio
Meet Autumn
Autumn Weil is a nonprofit executive, fundraising strategist, facilitator, and coach with 20 years of experience helping mission-driven organizations strengthen their leadership, fundraising, operations, and organizational capacity.
Her career has spanned human services, higher education, workforce development, and community-based organizations, including a community center, a large land-grant university, a small liberal arts college, and statewide and regional nonprofits. She has managed budgets of up to $2 million and teams ranging from four to 24 employees.
Having served as both an Executive Director and senior fundraising leader, Autumn brings a broad understanding of what it takes to operate and sustain a nonprofit organization. Her experience extends beyond fundraising to financial and operational systems, human resources, governance, board development, volunteer and association management, strategic planning, and organizational change.
That breadth of experience has made Autumn a nonprofit generalist, someone who understands how fundraising, leadership, governance, people, programs, and operations intersect. She is particularly skilled at stepping into organizations during periods of growth, transition, or limited capacity; identifying what needs attention; and helping leaders put practical systems in place to move the organization forward.
In 2025, Autumn founded HarvestRenewal Coaching to provide nonprofit leaders and organizations with the kind of experienced, hands-on support that is often difficult for smaller organizations to access. Today, her work includes fractional and interim leadership, fundraising and grant development, organizational capacity building, executive coaching, and training.
Autumn is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and holds a master’s degree in Management and Leadership. Her approach is practical, people-centered, and grounded in the belief that strong missions require strong organizations behind them
LEADERSHIP & FUNDRAISING ACHIEVEMENTS
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Expanded organizational capacity by 200% through strategic growth and revenue diversification.
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Established a $1M reserve fund, ensuring long-term organizational stability and financial resilience.
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Secured $2M in legislative funding strengthening statewide literacy services.
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Achieved a 60% grant success rate, consistently increasing awards year-over-year.
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Cultivated six-figure gifts, planned giving, and endowments through strategic moves management
CORE COMPETENCIES
Fundraising Strategy | Revenue Diversification | Board Development | Strategic Planning & Execution | Advocacy & Government Relations | Program Expansion | Financial Oversight | Marketing & Communications | Community Partnerships People & Change Management
Why Choose HarvestRenewal Coaching
HarvestRenewal Coaching combines strategic thinking with practical implementation to help small nonprofits strengthen the systems, messaging, and fundraising approach needed for long-term sustainability.
The focus is not only on raising funds, but on helping organizations build the structure and confidence needed to sustain and expand their mission over time.
If your organization is ready to strengthen its fundraising foundation, pursue funding more strategically, and build greater capacity for the future, HarvestRenewal Coaching would be glad to support you.
Let’s start the conversation.