StartUp Spokane Gives Meals on Wheels Momentum
By Alina Murcar
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or Jeremiah Keevy, Development Manager at the Greater Spokane County (GSC) Meals on Wheels, efficiency is the name of the game.
With a wide variety of experience in marketing and development, Jeremiah came on board GSC Meals on Wheels in 2023 with a key objective in mind: to find their target demographic, create a contact list, and build a database for potential donors and partners.
“I was vehemently searching for cost-effective options to use and it was dead-end after dead-
end,” said Jeremiah. “I would do consultations with different platforms that would cost thousands of dollars per month and, as much as I’d love to be able to have those services, we just don’t have the funds.”
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Jeremiah and GSC Meals on Wheels Executive Director Delana Combs heard about “Mark actually pulled up a map StartUp Spokane services through and showed us how to categorize Spokane Public Library and demographics so that we can Spokane County Library District create impactful, meaningful, and sat down with our Business and customized campaigns to Librarian, Mark Pond, to learn have more success in receiving more. support from the community,” said Jeremiah. “The meeting was Mark showed Jeremiah and chock-full of information that I Delana helpful and FREE tools find extremely valuable.” accessible through the library that were most applicable to their Jeremiah expressed relief when business like: talking about how much time
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these tools saved him. Before learning about StartUp Spokane services through the library, he would manually enter THOUSANDS of addresses collected from USPS into a direct mail platform with only 180-200 of them actually turning out to be valid.
