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a convergent approach to strategy and fundraising

“Our organization knew that we needed support from a consultant to create a sustainable plan for fundraising and outreach. We knew that Robin would bring a depth of experience and understanding of Quaker ministry. Her support has exceeded what we anticipated, and been a gift to Faith & Play Stories. Robin took the time to get to know the history and present condition of our work, and also examined how it is part of a wider “eco-system” of Friends organizations. The plan she created for us is both creative and innovative, but alongside this excellence is the gift of her encouragement. Robin brings so much experience and knowledge, but she also values relationships and care in working with others. Her energy and ability to view possibilities beyond our “line of sight” has given renewed purpose to how we approach development, and the future.” —Melinda Wenner Bradley, Faith & Play Stories, Inc.

Services

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Strategic discernment and planning

Do you want to make a plan for how to achieve the goals you have already set? 

Or are you not sure what your goals should be? 

How can you bring diverse parts of your organization, company or community together to discern your way forward? 

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Fundraising consulting

Are you wondering how you are going to sustain your organization, school, or meeting? 

Do you need some help figuring out how to raise money? Who to ask? How and when to approach donors?

Are you wondering how to recruit, hire and onboard more help?

Do you need an organized system, ambitious and achievable goals, and a plan to get there?

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Keynote presentations, workshops and training, and occasional preaching

Do you want a speaker who will bring a down-to-earth presentation, a little humor, and a provocative message? 

Do you need an afternoon workshop on fundraising, strategy, or organizational development? 

Do you want an inspirational challenge to live up to the Light that you have been given? 


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Robin Mohr is an experienced non-profit consultant and fundraiser, with expertise in complex project and financial management. She is dedicated to justice, equity, and collaboration, with a strong background in empowering diverse socio-economic communities. She has been a keynote speaker, workshop leader, and author with experience in multicultural contexts.

She serves on the board of trustees for Greene Street Friends School and clerks Green Street Monthly Meeting. She volunteers with the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, including the Model Senate program. Previously, she has volunteered with Friends Mutual Health Group, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Pacific Yearly Meeting, College Park Quarterly Meeting, San Francisco Monthly Meeting, and Ben Lomond Quaker Center.

In her most recent position, she served as a Quaker diplomat for the Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas from 2011-2024.

FWCC is the association of Quaker meetings and churches, around the world and across all the branches of Friends. She was known there for pioneering program design, strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation. At the end of her tenure, she raised $2.4 million (196% of goal) for the Becoming the Quakers the World Needs Campaign.

Before FWCC, she worked for the California Child Care Resource & Referral Network, the Lasallian Education Fund and the American Red Cross. At the St. Boniface Restoration Project in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, she managed the successful completion of a $13 million campaign for the seismic retrofitting and rehabilitation of the church, friary and community center, including a theater, a homeless shelter, and a new middle school.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. In 2025, she earned a Chief Strategy Officer certificate from Wharton Executive Education.

Now residing in Philadelphia, she has also lived in Colombia, Mexico, France, San Francisco, and New York City, and is fluent in Spanish and English. She has been a parent and/or volunteer at Tenderloin Elementary School, Playmates Cooperative Nursery School, San Francisco Friends School, Friends Select School, Haverford College, and Princeton University. She grew up in a small mountain town in northern California, giving her a broad perspective on rural and urban issues and solutions. Outside of work, she is a swimmer and an avid reader of speculative fiction, as well as a writer, minister and mother.

According to Robin, convergent Friends are those seeking a deeper engagement with our Quaker heritage and a more authentic life in the kingdom of God on earth today, radically inclusive of all who wish to live this life. She coined this term in late 2005 to express a movement of the Holy Spirit across divides of age, geography and theology. Between 2006 and 2011, she organized convergent gatherings across the United States and led a variety of workshops on the theme of “Primitive Quakerism in a Postmodern World.”

Starting early in her career, she learned directly from people living in poverty and from an interfaith group of people who had committed their lives to working together with the most vulnerable members of society. How to listen differently. How to interpret between people with different experiences and kinds of power to improve communication. How to sustain hope that the world can be better. She continues to use these skills every day.

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Selected Publications and Presentations

Videos

Living the Spirit of Ubuntu, Pendle Hill First Monday Night Lecture, August 2024 (on YouTube, 1 hour, 22 minutes including Q&A)

What to Expect at a Hybrid Quaker Meeting for Worship, QuakerSpeak, 2022 (5:32 minutes)

Listening in Tongues: Being Bilingual as a Quaker Value, QuakerSpeak, 2016 (5:09 minutes)

Publications

“The Development of Quaker Institutions,” and “Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas,” chapters in The Quaker World, eds. Daniels, C. Wess & Rhiannon Grant, 2022 Routledge Press

Facing Hard Truths, Friends Journal, April 2020

A Wider Quaker Fellowship, WHYY.org  April 2020

The Conflict is Inherent: A Quaker Theology of Vocational Ministry paper published in Quaker Religious Thought, 2021, originally presented to Quaker Theology Discussion Group 2020

“The True and Proper Purpose of Quaker Yearly Meetings” in Quaker Religious Thought, 2017, originally presented to Quaker Theology Discussion Group 2017, American Academy of Religion

In Celebration of Bivocational Ministry, Friends Journal, February 2014

Changes in World-wide Friends, Friends Journal, May 2013

“Prologue: Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes?”, An Inner Strength: Quakers and Leadership, editor Kathy Hyzy, 2013, Friends Bulletin Corporation

Eight Questions about Convergent Friends, Friends Journal, January 2012

“Help Wanted 2010,” Western Friend, January/February 2011

“Essentials of Quaker Practice,” Quaker Life, January/February 2010

“Quaker History as a Uniting Force?”, “Robinopedia: Convergent Friends,” “Am I a Christian? Yes, No, Or Maybe?”, blogposts from What Canst Thou Say? published in Writing Cheerfully on the Web, edited by Liz Oppenheimer, 2009

“Plain in the 21st Century,” Western Friend, April 2009

“Self-Supported Ministers: Lest We Forget by Billy M. Britt,” book review in Quaker Life, March/April 2009

“Growing into the Future, Converging as Friends,” Western Friend, Summer 2008

Convergence among Friends: From the ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor’, with C.Wess Daniels, Friends Journal, October 2007

“Car-Free First Day,” Friends Bulletin, July/August 2007

A Convergence of Friends, Friends Journal, October 2006

What Canst Thou Say?, personal blog, started 2005

“Silence Is Like Fluoride,” Friends Bulletin, September 2004

Public Presentations

Living the Spirit of Ubuntu: Responding with Hope to God’s Call to Cherish Creation and One Another, Pendle Hill Monday Night Lecture, August 5, 2024 (recording on YouTube)

“An Angel of Merging,” live presentation to Quaker Leadership Center annual conference, 2023; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 2024; Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, 2025

“Convertirnos en los Cuáqueros que el Mundo Necesita”, plenary, Iglesia Evangelica Union Boliviana Amigos, 2023

“Becoming the Quakers the World Needs”, multi-session keynote, Great Plains Yearly Meeting, 2023

Creating Faithful Action in our Changing World, Illinois Yearly Meeting 2023 (recording on YouTube)

“Becoming the Quakers the World Needs,” Boston University School of Theology Conference The Spiritual Ground of Quaker Witness, 2023. Accepted for publication, 2025

The Conflict is Inherent: A Quaker Theology of Vocational Ministry paper published in Quaker Religious Thought, 2021, originally presented to Quaker Theology Discussion Group 2020

“What Comes Next?” North Carolina Fellowship of Friends, 2020

We Think We’re Separate, Friends Journal, October 2016 (Originally a plenary presentation at Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)

Friends Fiduciary Quaker Fundraisers Gathering 2018, Moderator of Plenary Panel: “Growing the Vitality of the Quaker Community through Philanthropy”

ESR Quaker Leadership Conference 2014 Panel: Servant style leadership within organizations

& 2015 workshop: “Strategic Planning on a Thin Dime”

“Quaker Craft: Becoming the Quakers the World Needs” North Pacific Yearly Meeting 2015:

“Growing from Common Roots Toward the Light,” Baltimore Yearly Meeting 2013 Carey Memorial Lecture

“La Mujer Samaritana,” workshop series,Junta Annual Santidad Amigos Guatemala, Junta Mensual Santa Rosa de Copan, Iglesia Evangelica los Amigos Soyapango, El Salvador, 2013

Workshop Co-leader, with Darcy Stanley, “Spiritual Hospitality,” Redwood Forest Monthly Meeting, 2007

“Convergent Friends: Reclaiming the Power of Primitive Quakerism in a Postmodern World”, Workshop Co-leader, with C. Wess Daniels, Shawna Roberts and David Male, Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas Annual Meeting, 2007

“On Fire! Renewing Quakerism Through a Convergence of Friends,” Interest Group Co-leader, with Martin Kelley and Liz Oppenheimer, FGC Summer Gathering, 2006

Adult Religious Education topics at San Francisco Monthly Meeting: “What Is a Spiritual Leading? How Do I Know If I Have One? How Can S.F.M.M. Support Me if I Do?”, “Membership in the Religious Society of Friends,” “Vocal Ministry,” “Marriage in the 21st Century,” “Blogging as Ministry,” “What Do We Want Children To Get Out Of First Day School?”, “Introduction to Quakerism” series