With 15+ years experience leading and advising nonprofits with an equity-centered approach, I help mission-driven organizations enhance strategic clarity, deliver impact, and create a more smoothly run environment with happier employees and volunteers.
- interim executive director: I provide skilled interim leadership during transitions, maintaining operations, managing and supporting staff, guiding and supporting the board of directors, and preparing the organization for your next permanent leader.
- executive director partner: It can be lonely at the top. As a judgment-free thought partner, I support executive directors as a coach and extra set of hands to achieve programmatic, fundraising, and administrative goals.
- board of directors partner: I assess and strengthen governance systems. This includes improving meeting efficiency, committee oversight, member engagement, recruitment, and orientation.
- strategic planning: I collaboratively manage and facilitate inclusive strategic planning processes from coordinating your committee, gathering stakeholder input, and writing the final strategic plan document. Includes a pulse analysis of the current state of the organization.
- organizational assessment: Conducting a comprehensive organizational evaluation process, I provide insights for informed decision-making, establishing key indicators of organizational health and laying the groundwork for strategic planning, goal setting, and impactful marketing.
- organizational theory of change: I create easy to understand models that illustrate the "missing middle" between your day-to-day activities and big vision. This brings organizational clarity to program strategies and supports evaluation frameworks.
- program theory and logic models: I translate your work into stories and frameworks that resonate with individual donors and grant funders with a clear causative relationships for a program or project, describing how the project links inputs (staffing and other expenditures), outputs (work product), and outcomes (goals). More here about the art of nonprofit program creation.
- event/meeting planning and facilitation: I create collaborative spaces for teams and events as a facilitator or emcee, both virtually and in person.
- advocacy campaign coordination: I provide support in coalition coordination, powermapping, grassroots organizing, grasstops outreach, marketing and communications on environmental and social justice campaigns with an equity centered approach.
- grant writing: I craft persuasive template grant language and applications that effectively communicate your organization's impact and funding needs to potential funders.