Explore how we might work together

Ongoing thought partnership as you navigate growth, strategy, and complex decisions

This is a space to think out loud, work through challenges in real time, and make more grounded, aligned decisions as your organization grows.

Unlike project-based work, this isn’t about a single deliverable—it’s about having a consistent partner who understands your work, your context, and the systems you’re navigating.

Best for:

• Executive directors and senior leaders

• Organizations in a period of growth, transition, or complexity

• Leaders who want a trusted sounding board—not just tactical support

This work may include:

• Talking through strategic decisions as they arise

• Making sense of internal and external dynamics

• Pressure-testing ideas and next steps

• Connecting day-to-day challenges to longer-term strategy

• Supporting funder conversations when needed

At times, this can also include developing tailored tools or frameworks—such as a funder briefing template or a program model theory of change—when they’re helpful to move the work forward.

A focused way to get clear, aligned, and prepared for funding conversations

This is for organizations that are doing strong work but feel like their story isn’t landing the way it should.

Together, we clarify how you talk about your work, strengthen how you show impact, and prepare you for upcoming funder conversations or growth moments.

This isn’t about “packaging” your work—it’s about naming it more clearly and powerfully so it can be understood and supported.

Best for:

• Organizations preparing for new funding opportunities

• Teams refining how they communicate their work

• Leaders who want focused, time-bound support

You’ll walk away with:

• A clear, compelling way to talk about your work

• Stronger framing of your impact

• Review or development of key materials

• Strategic guidance for funder engagement

Creating space to step back, get aligned, and move forward with clarity

This work supports teams that need to slow down, make sense of where they are, and define where they’re going next.

Through facilitated sessions and structured reflection, I help teams clarify their strategy in a way that is grounded in their values, their context, and the communities they serve.

Best for:

• Teams at a moment of growth, transition, or re-alignment

• Organizations preparing to scale or refine their model

• Groups that need alignment across leadership or stakeholders

This work may include:

• Strategic planning and priority setting

• Theory of Change or Theory of Action development

• Clarifying program models and pathways to impact

• Retreat design and facilitation

• Synthesizing insights into clear, usable frameworks

This work is often about creating the conditions for clarity—so that future decisions, growth, and funding are more intentional and aligned.

Strategic support for funders to better understand a field and align their investments with community-rooted work

This work creates space to step back from individual grants and look across the broader ecosystem—surfacing patterns, clarifying opportunities, and strengthening alignment between values, strategy, and funding.

I take on a limited number of these engagements to stay grounded in my core work with nonprofit leaders.

Best for:

• Foundations exploring or refining a funding area

• Teams seeking stronger alignment across their portfolio

• Funders looking to deepen understanding of a field

This work may include:

• Landscape scans and ecosystem mapping

• Synthesizing learning across grants and partners

• Identifying patterns, strengths, and gaps

• Developing or refining a theory of action

• Facilitating internal strategy or learning conversations

Collaborative sessions that build critical consciousness around power, funding, and decision-making

In select cases, I partner with youth program leaders to design and facilitate sessions that complement existing learning experiences.

This work is rooted in learning—not decision-making authority. It’s not a participatory grantmaking process, but an opportunity for young people to engage more deeply with how decisions about resources are made, who shapes them, and what that means in practice.

Together, we co-create sessions that:

• build on what participants are already exploring

• surface questions of power, influence, and resource allocation

• create space to examine trade-offs, values, and real-world constraints

The goal is not to simulate authority, but to build:

• critical consciousness

• decision-making literacy

• a clearer sense of how change happens—and how they can be part of it

Best for:

• Youth leadership and civic engagement programs

• Organizations looking to deepen young people’s understanding of systems, power, and resource flows

• Programs that want to connect values, decision-making, and real-world action

This work may include:

• Co-designing a session or series within an existing program

• Facilitating interactive activities and group reflection

• Supporting integration with the broader learning arc

• Bringing a funder and systems lens into conversations about impact and resources