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Member Industry Spotlight:
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| Arabella Advisors Washington, DC
Arabella Advisors enables clients across the philanthropic sector to tackle society’s biggest challenges more efficiently, effectively, and equitably. Arabella partners with people and groups working to achieve philanthropic goals through grantmaking, advocacy, impact investing, and more. The Arabella Advisors team is driven by a desire to change the world for the better by enhancing equity, strengthening communities, protecting our planet, and more. After nearly 20 years serving the philanthropic sector, the team has the breadth and depth of experience to tackle huge issues, and the dedication and creative thinking to offer personalized support whenever needed.
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| BDO Alliance USA Chicago, IL
BDO’s Grantmaker team provides consulting services in financial management with an equity perspective that recognizes the root causes of financial inequity and seeks to mitigate the impacts. Examples of this include: helping grantmakers redesign their grant making and financial due diligence processes to reflect their values, training grantmakers how to review financial statements informed by equity considerations, and conducting research to bring awareness to inequitable practices. The BDO team focuses on understanding experiences, listening to challenges and ideas, and putting thought into action to better support their people and meet the needs of their clients.
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| Brigham Consulting Kentwood, Michigan
Brigham Consulting uses an approach that is both constructive and centers shared humanity. The team advises and supports its clients to pursue structures, policies, practices, and a culture that is more humanizing and positions them to better accomplish their organizational mission and leadership aims. At Brigham Consulting, the team curates and tailors solutions for its clients as it partners with them to move beyond the transactional to the transformational. Brigham's focus is to advance, infuse, and center equity, justice, inclusion, and expansion as leaders and organizations.The team of strategists, disruptors, and systems thinkers create productive and healing experiences.
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| The Giving Practice Seattle, WA
The Giving Practice creates partnerships with clients to reflect on their past work, learn from stakeholders, scan the landscape, test and learn, dig into dilemmas and examine organization roles, values, culture and practice. The team's unique process helps to create a road map to impact. The Giving Practice helps clients advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in their work and in their organization. The team brings tools that promote self-reflection, awareness and action and helps clients define values, goals and strategies that center DEI. The Giving Practice creates positive learning environments that surface joy, compassion and personal growth to deepen connections, generate new knowledge and helps clients navigate complex change efforts.
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| Hirsch Philanthropy Partners San Francisco, CA
Hirsch Philanthropy Partners is passionate about its partnerships with individuals, families, and foundations to make a lasting, positive difference in the world. For more than two decades, the team has directed over $1.6 billion to nonprofits, community leaders, and public sector agencies boldly solving some of the most pressing issues. Hirsch defines equity as fair, just, and active inclusion that allows people of all identities to thrive and feel a sense of belonging, no matter their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, or other characteristic that makes each person unique. Hirsch is committed to advancing equity for all by providing access to the resources, relationships, and opportunities necessary to reach one’s full potential.
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| Marga Inc. New York, NY
Marga Inc. provides strategic advice and research to strengthen various pathways to improve society. These pathways are manifested in a variety of ways, from philanthropic giving initiatives to creative partnerships that leverage the combined resources of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Marga’s clients have spanned a wide range of institutions, from well-established multibillion dollar foundations to grassroots community organizations. The Race and Equity in Philanthropy Group (REPG) began as a result of a study conducted by Marga of how various foundations were addressing racial equity and DEI. REPG brings together foundations committed to improving their ability to promote racial equity and inclusion in their policies, practices, systems, and operations.
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| Athena Adkins President, BetterWorld Partners
Throughout her 20+ year career in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, Athena Adkins' effort to leverage her expertise and align her personal values with mission-driven organizations has led her to engage in deep, meaningful work at the intersection of organizational development and capacity building. Those ideas intersect with authentic leadership, intercultural organizational development, healing from trauma, and emotional intelligence. She is a champion of the idea that it is not just “what we do,” but also “how we do it.”
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| Mae Hong Vice President, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Hong opened the Chicago office of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in 2009. Hong provides custom services to help clients manage their charitable giving, develop effective strategies, and discover joy in their philanthropic journey. She has also been involved in Rockefeller's leadership on the issue of diversity in philanthropy. Her funding expertise includes children, youth and families; poverty alleviation; women and girls’ issues; and advocacy. She has spoken out about racial equity and racial justice developments within philanthropy.
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| Marcus Littles Founder & Senior Partner, Frontline Solutions - As a strategist and visionary, Marcus Littles has been instrumental in directing philanthropic investment at the intersection of race and gender. In 2005, he founded Frontline to advise philanthropists on a multi-billion-dollar investment in Gulf Coast recovery in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Since then, Littles has led Frontline in reimagining the role of “consultant” and becoming an integral part of the racial justice ecosystem. In 2016, Littles was named one of Living Cities’ "25 Disruptive Leaders Who Are Working to Close the Racial Opportunity Gaps." - Member Profile Business Website Connect on LinkedIn |
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| Sofiya (Cheyenne) Brown Associate Consultant, PENN Creative Strategy
Sofiya Cheyenne Brown is a New York-based, multi-disciplinary performance artist, educator, disability advocate, and consultant. She strongly believes in using the art of storytelling as a way to challenge societal norms. Cheyenne has presented as a facilitator and public speaker in many schools, venues and panels across the country. As an active advocate for access and inclusion, she also consults for arts and culture organizations in NYC. - Business Website Connect on LinkedIn |
| Cherice Hopkins Founder & CEO, In Harmony LLC
Cherice Hopkins helps funders and nonprofits integrate DEI principles and practices into their internal and external operations through policy development, program development, assessments and liberatory leadership coaching. Hopkins believes practicing equity and inclusion is a way of life and embraces the joy and possibility they hold. She draws on the full breadth of her background to advise leaders on equitable practices, creating safe spaces, facilitating impactful interactions, and enhancing the ability of her clients to apply an intersectional lens to their professional expertise. - Business Website Connect on LinkedIn |
| Lisa McGill Principal, LM Strategies Consulting - Lisa McGill is a trusted advisor to philanthropies, a published writer, a skilled convener, and a business owner. McGill has spent years consulting on projects for foundations, nonprofits, and public/private partnerships to drive social change. She began LM Strategies Consulting in 2003 when she saw an opportunity to leverage her expertise in stakeholder engagement, U.S. immigrant studies, racial equity, youth-to-adult transitions, and inclusive practices in philanthropy to strengthen the work being done in the sector. - Member Profile Business Website Connect on LinkedIn |
| Rusty Stahl Founder, President & CEO, Fund the People - Rusty Stahl is an advocate for investing in the 12 million professionals of America’s nonprofit workforce. Stahl's work advances effectiveness, equity, and endurance in the nonprofit sector by challenging and helping funders to increase and improve their support for workers in the organizations and causes they support. He has committed his career to advancing the human health of people across all ages, stages, roles, and identities in foundations, nonprofits, and social movements.
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| Marcia Coné, PhD Principal Consultant, Marcia Coné Consulting
For 30 years, Marcia Coné has worked in partnership with foundations, nonprofits, and philanthropic service organizations to shift the paradigm to create cultures where intersectional equity is at the center. Coné an experienced Founder with a successful history of working in the field of philanthropy, evaluation & research, advocacy, and training & coaching. She is a designer of learning communities. She is also an Equitable Evaluation Framework™ Practitioner. - Member Profile Business Website Connect on LinkedIn |
| Kelli King-Jackson, ACC Founder, Kelli King-Jackson LLC Kelli King-Jackson is a coach and strategic advisor to people committed to freedom. She prioritizes working with Black women and other women of color leading in white spaces. In her consulting work, King-Jackson works to make the nonprofit, philanthropic, government, and corporate sectors safer for Black women. She helps leaders work from a values-aligned place to accomplish their goals and have a meaningful impact in their work. She is an ACC level coach with the International Coaching Federation and a 21/64 certified philanthropy advisor. - Member Profile Business Website Connect on LinkedIn |
| Gita Gulati-Partee Founder & Principal, OpenSource Leadership Strategies - Gita Gulati-Partee brings expertise in structural power and equity, organizational and movement strategy, adaptive leadership and change, organization and network development, systems change advocacy, and asset-based methods of inquiry and engagement. She has published and presented extensively on racial equity, advocacy, and philanthropy. She received one of eight inaugural awards from Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) Fund to develop tools and frameworks to advance the field.
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