Granite Impact

Needing support with your strategic planning? Fundraising efforts and culture? Leadership collaboration? While you may not have budget for a full planning process, I can work with you to get the most out of what resources are available. We can quickly and effectively get up to speed with your work and challenges, and help facilitate workshops, retreats, and Board meetings to infuse new energy and perspective. This work can be done virtually, in-person or hybrid. Let me know if we can help you solidify your foundation to be able to enhance your impact.

Donor Site Visits. Nonprofits and intermediaries really need to reinvision these. Site visits require executives and their teams to take significant time away from delivering on their core missions. At their best, site visits are accessible and efficient ways to engage donors around a specific (or intersectional) cause. The organization is a means to affect change in that/those cause(s). At their worst, they are voyeuristic and filled with posture and fear. ————— How they can work well: -Engaging existing donors to invite their networks -Start conversations that can lead to longer-term, transformational support -Do not make an ask during your first interactions, unless the donors essentially lead you there. -Authenically share your challenges and how you envision tackling them (not just through more financial support) How they can flounder: -Voyeuristic experiences like a homelessness walk or ethnic neighborhood tour. This puts the end beneficiaries and the nonprofits serving them in a very weird power dynamic -Only sharing the good. -Having these opportunities be open to unknown donors -Putting EDs or program participants in a position to HAVE to speak at the program -Transactional conversations

Help us launch our new series! Please share with your networks if you’re willing. Will be sure to share our Granite Guides with you when they launch.