A year of always-on ads for Papelmanía
From seasonal gambles to 3.2× ROAS and record follower growth.
I’ve spent six years running Meta and Google ads for charities and mission-driven brands — the creative, the tracking, and the reporting. Here’s my work, my background, and what I’ve written.
My wife and I run Papelmanía, a stationery brand in Lima. It’s my playground for strategies and formats — everything I propose to a client, I’ve tested here first. We’ve grown year over year for the last three years.

I ran the whole paid media program — strategy, creative, landing pages, analytics. The brand went from seasonal ad bursts to steady year-round sales and its best year of audience growth.
Read the case study →Good fundraising ads need four things. Most people have one or two. I have all four.
I write the ads and direct the creative. I know how to tell a charity’s story so that people stop scrolling and care.
I read the numbers every day — cost per donor, return on spend, lifetime value — and make decisions from them, not from hunches.
Pixels, server-side tracking, landing pages, automations. I set them up myself and keep them working.
Years inside nonprofit agencies, and field work before that. I know how charities operate and what a board wants to see.
Peru, 2019
EthiopiaI started in the field and moved into fundraising because I saw what funded programs can do — and what unfunded ones can’t.
Solar energy access in Peru and water filtration in Ethiopia. This is where I saw what funding actually changes.
Nonprofit direct response: appeals, donor psychology, and my first paid campaigns for charities.
Paid campaigns across Meta and Google for national and international nonprofits — donor acquisition, always-on programs, and measurement.
How I think about paid media for nonprofits, written from the work.
From seasonal gambles to 3.2× ROAS and record follower growth.
Donations follow a power law, not a bell curve. That changes how you budget for acquisition.
You don’t need seven people. You do need seven skills.
The case for always-on paid media, and what it costs to go dark.
What the 2020 donor surge showed about attention, and what to do with that now.
How to reach people who have never heard of you.
If you’re raising money for a nonprofit, I’d like to hear about it. The call is free and there’s no pitch.