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For Philanthropy & Funders
Your investment goes further when it reaches the ground.
You started this because you care about your community. We help you build the systems, strategy, and funding infrastructure that keeps your mission alive for the long haul.
Too often, philanthropy designs programs for communities instead of with them. The organizations closest to the work are the last to receive investment, and the first to be expected to prove they deserve it.
We believe there's a better way.
For your Grantees
Sustainability by Design
Our signature cohort program, available for funders who want to invest in the long-term health of their grantee portfolio. You fund the program. We train, coach, and support your grantees through it. They emerge with the infrastructure to sustain their work well beyond your grant cycle.
Revenue architecture and diversified funding
Donor and corporate partnership strategies
Earned income frameworks
Back-office systems and accountability
A complete 12-month revenue plan
What We Offer
Services for funders and foundations
Grant-Making Retooling
Ideal for: Community foundations, corporate giving programs, and family foundations looking to reach deeper into the communities they serve.
Your current grant-making processes may be unintentionally excluding the grassroots organizations doing the most impactful work. Complex applications, rigid reporting requirements, and institutional language create barriers for community-based leaders.
We help you redesign your grant-making to be more accessible without reducing accountability. That includes simplifying applications, rethinking eligibility criteria, and building evaluation frameworks that measure what actually matters.
Community Investment Strategy
Ideal for: Foundations shifting toward place-based, trust-based, or community-led giving models.
Moving beyond traditional grant-making requires a framework. We help you develop a strategy for identifying, vetting, and investing in community-led organizations aligned with your mission.
This includes landscape mapping, relationship building with grassroots leaders, and creating an investment thesis that prioritizes proximity to the problem over organizational size or sophistication.
Fractional CGO Services
Ideal for: Small to mid-size foundations, donor-advised fund managers, and corporate giving programs without dedicated grants leadership.
Not every foundation needs a full-time Chief Giving Officer. We provide on-demand strategic leadership for your grant-making operations: portfolio management, grantee relationship development, giving strategy, and board-level reporting.
Think of it as having a senior grants strategist on call without the overhead of a full-time executive hire.
Grantee Capacity Programs
Ideal for: Any funder that wants their grantees to succeed beyond the grant cycle.
The most effective funders don't just write checks. They invest in the capacity of the organizations they fund. We design and deliver structured training programs for your grantee portfolio, including our Sustainability by Design cohort.
Participants build revenue architecture, diversified funding pipelines, accountability systems, and a 12-month revenue plan. Your grantees become stronger, more sustainable, and better positioned to deliver on the outcomes you funded them to achieve.
Ideal Partners
Who this is for
Community foundations
Local and regional foundations looking to deepen their impact by reaching organizations that traditional processes overlook.
Corporate giving programs
Companies investing in the communities where they operate and looking for structured ways to build local nonprofit capacity.
Family foundations
Smaller foundations that want strategic grant-making support without building a full internal team.
Donor-advised fund managers
Advisors helping donors make more informed, impactful giving decisions in their communities.
The Opportunity
From traditional grant-making to community investment
Traditional approach
- Complex applications that favor large, established orgs
- One-size-fits-all reporting requirements
- Funding programs in isolation
- Top-down decision-making about community needs
- Short grant cycles with no capacity support
Community investment approach
- Accessible applications that welcome grassroots leaders
- Evaluation frameworks that measure real impact
- Investing in ecosystems, not just individual orgs
- Decisions informed by people closest to the work
- Capacity building alongside funding
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