The Foundation

A New Heart

“A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”

Ezekiel 36 · 26

The Work

This is not self-improvement. It is interior renewal. From a renewed heart, generosity, witness, and service begin to overflow. Philanthropy, rightly ordered, becomes the fruit of a gift first received.

That conviction shapes the work.

For entrepreneurs and philanthropists, we coach and walk alongside you as you discern how to share, invest, and steward resources in ways ordered toward the good of the other.

For fundraisers and development professionals, we coach and accompany you in the sacred trust of your work — helping you shape conversations, campaigns, and stewardship practices that respect the dignity of the mission, the beneficiary, and the benefactor.

For nonprofit leaders and board members, we coach and consult with you to build organizations where governance, mission, management, and generosity work in concert. The result is an organization that serves with integrity, becomes worthy of the trust placed in it, and ensures that those it serves receive what they need to thrive.

The Person Behind the Work

Valerie Mullen Pletcher

Founder · Chief Philanthropy Coach

  • CFRE
  • MInstF (Adv Dip)
  • Standards for Excellence Licensed Consultant
  • International Practitioner

A New Gift Center is led by Valerie Mullen Pletcher, a fundraising and philanthropy coach with decades of experience working with philanthropists, nonprofit organizations, and development professionals — integrating mission, coaching, and development for the sake of the giver and the receiver.

From a renewed heart, generosity, witness, and service begin to overflow. Philanthropy, rightly ordered, becomes the fruit of a gift first received. That conviction shapes the work.

Come and See

What might your work look like if it began here?

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Thank you to the generous priests and religious, loving family, friends, beneficiaries, missionaries, philanthropists, teachers, colleagues, and mentors who have inspired this work — you have planted the seeds of Love.

With special gratitude to Fred Rogers, Bill Mumma, Fr. Godfred Appiah-Marfo, and Mary C. Sweeney.