What We offer
We believe that the resources leaders and organizations need to carry their vision forward exist in abundance, even though they may sometimes seem challenging to secure.
Building Financial Sustainability
Successful, enduring organizations have clear, actionable plans that support them to meet their growing revenue goals. We partner with you to create a personalized development plan that ensures you have the tools you need to accomplish your vision for impact through fundraising.
Fig Leaf guides you through a thoughtful process to make key decisions, develop high-impact strategies, and create tactics to meet your development goals. We do not create pretty plans that gather dust on your desk. We create a road map and tools for use in your everyday work.
Creating High-Impact Development Teams
We build highly successful development teams. We conduct team audits, create talent and retention frameworks, facilitate development training days, and provide coaching and support to leaders and development staff.
For organizations bringing on new leaders and staff, we help you prepare by bringing clarity to what’s expected of your new hire. We provide interview guidance, help you set up good systems so your new hire doesn’t immediately feel overwhelmed, and create detailed onboarding plans to support your development hire to want to stay and for them to thrive.
Board Leadership + Development
Whether you are looking to grow your board or increase their engagement, we advise, design, and facilitate opportunities to promote donor cultivation from board members and deepen their sense of responsibility and excitement to contribute to your organization’s success.
Advising Executive Leadership
Our tailored, people-centered approach and decades-long experience leading development and highly-effective diverse teams at nonprofit organizations means that we bring the skill, counsel, and trust to help leaders build and execute on their vision and mission through effective fundraising.
Whether you are down internal capacity, are an executive who is new to fundraising, or your organization is in the midst of a strategic transition or big growth moment, we provide deeply personalized coaching and advising to help you reach your goals. Our goal is to create ease and confidence, so you can do great work.
Building Practices to Navigate Power Dynamics in Fundraising and Philanthropy
Through one-on-one coaching and group-centered facilitation, we create space for leaders and fundraisers of color to navigate the predominately white field of philanthropy. We support organizations who aren't led by people of color to show up as allies. We support organizations and foundations to adopt policies, practices, and ways of communicating that hold care and honor the dignity, brilliance, and humanity of BIPOC staff and communities.
