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What I Offer
Senior-level partnerships for nonprofit CEOs and leadership teams pursuing transformation-level support.
The Path to a Fully Backed Organization
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Clarify Positioning
We work in partnership to develop a more complete, organization-level articulation of your unique value in the marketplace, where the organization is going, and what it is asking others to invest in.
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Build Your Organizational Narrative
From there, we craft the organization’s core story and point of view in a way that resonates across the organization and helps more people see how they fit into what the organization is building.
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Anchor Transformation-level Investment
We then shape that story into a concrete investment narrative that anchors high-stakes conversations with donors, corporate partners, and foundations.
Where You'll See Our Work in Action
The work we do together becomes part of the fabric of the organization's communications, including in:
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Executive communications, from speeches to posts to written pieces
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Board materials, including how strategy and value are discussed outside formal meetings
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Major gift and corporate partnership conversations, including cases for substantial investment
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Program descriptions and impact reports, including how outcomes are framed
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Donor communications, from emails to proposals to follow-up conversations, including workplace and community annual campaigns
We look at how these pieces reinforce (or undermine) one another, especially as the level of investment increases. As the questions get more serious and the stakes get higher, the story has to be both consistent and resonant.
The work involves refining, rebuilding, and sometimes replacing these materials so the organization can speak with depth, confidence, and credibility, no matter who is doing the talking or how significant the ask.
What Changes When
Your Organization is fully Backed
Funders understand both the scope of the work and where it is headed, and feel confident making larger, longer-term investments.
Boards become more confident ambassadors for the organization and more capable of representing it in donor and partner conversations.
Leadership teams approach fundraising differently, moving beyond program-by-program asks toward organization-level investment.
Strategic corporate partnerships become possible because partners can see alignment, shared value, and long-term direction.
Individuals and foundations make transformation-level investments, including significant general operating support.
Transformation-level support becomes possible because people can see what they are being asked to believe in and back.
Who This Work is For
I work with nonprofit CEOs, chief development officers, and senior marketing leaders who sense that their organization is being supported at a level that reflects pieces of the work, not the whole.
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My clients typically:
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operate at $8M+ in annual revenue
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have capable leadership teams and engaged boards
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are doing complex, multi-faceted work that can be challenging to explain at a higher level
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are seeking support that reflects where the organization is headed, not just where it has been
This work is not about short-term fundraising tactics or outsourced execution. It’s for leadership teams who want the organization to be understood, believed in, and backed at the level the work requires.
What You'll Walk Away With
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By the end of this work, the organization is no longer relying on program-by-program explanations to earn support.
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You have a higher-level narrative used consistently across leadership, development, marketing, and the board.
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Funders, partners, and board members understand what the organization is building and why unrestricted, transformation-level support makes sense.
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Most importantly, the organization is positioned to be fully backed for the longterm, not just funded.