nonprofits & public agencies
Nonprofit consulting for mission-driven teams
Nonprofit operations and strategy consulting for lean, mission-driven teams across greater Los Angeles. We help you simplify what’s overcomplicated, strengthen what’s fragile, and build foundations that hold.
A short, no-pressure conversation about what you're navigating.
Leading nonprofits means making hard calls with what you have
Tight budgets. Incomplete information. A team that deeply cares and is stretched thin. If you’re feeling stuck or unsure how to move forward without burning people out, you’re not alone, and you’re not doing it wrong.
We work with small- and mid-sized nonprofits and public agencies who want to strengthen how they operate, without losing sight of their mission or their people. We know the public-sector side from the inside, too: five years within a library district leading marketing and community engagement, and managing its partner nonprofit foundation throughout.
who this work is for
Built for organizations where every decision counts
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operate with small teams and limited margins
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are navigating growth, transition, or internal strain
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feel the tension between ambition and capacity
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want practical support, not abstract recommendations
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need someone who can both think strategically and help do the work
Our sweet spot is organizations with annual operating budgets between $500K and $3M, where inefficiency is costly.
common challenges
Most of what feels stuck is a systems problem... and those are solvable
Most nonprofit leaders don’t lack commitment or vision. What’s missing is clarity, structure, or capacity. We hear versions of the same things:
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everything feels urgent, so prioritizing is nearly impossible
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roles and systems haven’t evolved as the organization has grown
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staff burnout is rising, but the fix isn’t obvious
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the strategic plan exists, but doesn’t translate into daily reality
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past consultants offered ideas, but little follow-through
These are infrastructure gaps, and they can be navigated, strengthened, and built.
how we help
A few recognizable shapes
Ongoing Strategic Partnership
A steady advisory role alongside your leadership, planning, board and executive support, decision-making support, and the outside perspective that helps you navigate growth, transition, or strain.
Communications, Brand & Website
Hands-on support where lean teams feel it most: clear messaging, a donor-ready website, and the design and communication tools that hold it together. One studio instead of five vendors.
Strategy & Systems Builds
Focused engagements that produce something concrete: fundraising campaign and donor-systems design, communication systems and templates, capacity audits, and clear next-90-days roadmaps.
Focused, Quick-Turn Help
When you need one thing done well: donor database cleanup or migration, a CRM triage, a communications refresh, or a starter website. Built to respect limited budgets and capacity.
Chloe is meticulous. If I was forming my A-team, she would be among my first choices.
STEPHEN · SOUTH PASADENA THEATRE WORKSHOP
good to know
Questions nonprofit leaders ask first.
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What size organizations do you work with?
Our sweet spot is nonprofits and public agencies with operating budgets between $500K and $3M, lean enough that every decision matters, established enough to have real systems worth strengthening. If you’re meaningfully smaller or larger, it’s still worth a conversation; we’ll tell you honestly if we’re not the right fit.
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We hired consultants before and ended up with a plan nobody used. How is this different?
That’s the most common frustration we hear, and it’s why implementation is built into how we work rather than sold separately. We don’t hand over a strategy and walk away. We help build the systems, templates, and structures that make the strategy real, and design them simply enough that your team can maintain them after we’re gone.
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Do you work with public agencies and government-affiliated organizations?
Yes. Alongside nonprofit work, our founder spent five years inside a library district leading marketing and community engagement while managing its partner foundation, so the public-sector context, and the relationship between an agency and its affiliated nonprofit, is familiar territory.
how pricing works
Scoped to fit real life.
Every organization is different, so we don’t force people into one-size-fits-all packages. Final scope depends on the complexity of the work, the systems already in place, and what will actually help most at this stage. We’ll talk through your goals, capacity, and budget, then shape the scope together, and share starting-at ranges on our call so you can plan with real numbers.