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Our Services

  • Build Your Roadmap for Change

    Move from reactive initiatives to proactive strategic transformation. Through organizational assessment, stakeholder engagement, and co-created planning, we develop actionable strategies that align with your capacity and context.

    What you get: Not another report to sit on a shelf—a living roadmap your team can actually implement, with clear priorities, timelines, and accountability measures.

    Typical engagement: 2-4 months | Starting at $8,000

  • Create sustainable revenue streams and donor relationships

    Move beyond crisis fundraising to build strategic, sustainable revenue. We develop comprehensive fundraising strategies that align with your mission, identify and cultivate major donors, and create systems for ongoing relationship management. Whether you're launching your first campaign or scaling existing efforts, we build fundraising capacity that lasts.

    What we deliver:

    • Comprehensive fundraising strategy development

    • Donor research, cultivation, and stewardship plans

    • Major gift campaign design and execution

    • Grant writing and foundation strategy

    • Fundraising event planning and management

    • Board fundraising training and support

    Ranging from $1000-$6000 monthly retainer

  • Stay Accountable to Your Goals

    The hardest part isn't writing the plan, it's actually doing it. Ongoing advisory retainers provide monthly strategic guidance, problem-solving, and accountability as you navigate the messy work of implementation.

    What you get: A partner who's with you through the hard conversations, the unexpected challenges, and the decisions that require equity expertise—not just at the beginning, but when you actually need support.

    Typical engagement: 3-12 month retainers | $2,000-3,000/month

  • Most organizations are held back not by their mission, but by the administrative chaos around it: a donor database nobody trusts, a reporting process that takes days, staff workarounds that live in someone's personal spreadsheet. We help you figure out what is actually broken, why, and what to do about it without overbuilding or overcomplicating.

    Whether that means helping you choose the right donor management system, redesigning how information moves between your team, or simply cleaning up what you already have, we focus on making your day-to-day work lighter so your team can focus on what matters.

    What this looks like in practice:

    • Assessing what is and is not working across your current systems and workflows

    • Helping you choose and set up donor management tools that match your size and budget

    • Redesigning processes so information flows clearly and nothing falls through the cracks

    • Building simple, usable reporting so you always know where things stand

    • Training your team on new tools until they actually feel comfortable using them

    • Identifying where AI tools can save time without adding complexity

  • Some organizations need a senior strategist in the room, not just a deliverable at the end of a contract.

    Fractional leadership puts an experienced partner inside your team on a part-time basis. You get the thinking, the relationships, and the institutional knowledge of a senior hire without the full-time cost.

    This works best when you are between development directors. When your ED is wearing too many hats. When a campaign is coming and you need someone who already knows how to run one.

    BCC embeds with your team to lead fundraising, communications, or organizational strategy for a set number of hours each month. We show up at your staff meetings. We know your donors. We know your board. We build the systems so your next hire walks into something that works.

    What it looks like in practice

    We set a monthly scope together. You get a dedicated partner who is accountable to your goals, not just a timeline. Most engagements run three to six months, with the option to extend.

    This is right for you if:

    Your organization is in transition. Your strategy is solid but execution keeps stalling. You have the vision and need someone to help you move it.

  • Mindfully Hiring a Consultant

    Hiring consultants is necessary but rarely straightforward. This 90-minute workshop teaches nonprofit leaders how to get better outcomes from consultant relationships through root cause analysis, effective statements of work, expectation management, and implementation planning. Walk away with practical tools including templates, worksheets, and field-specific guidance you can use immediately. Led by Ellie Brown, drawing on 20+ years of experience on both sides of the consulting relationship.

    Preview the workshop here in a 20-minute shortened version.

How We Partner With You

We come in as the experts in strategy and systems. You are the expert in your work, your community, and what your organization needs. The best results happen when both are true at the same time, so that is exactly how we work. We bring the frameworks, the tools, and the process; you bring the context and the judgment that no outside consultant could replicate. Together, we build something that actually fits.

How We Work: Partnership, Not Prescriptions

1. We Start With Listening Assessment before solutions. We take time to understand your context, capacity, challenges, and existing strengths before recommending any strategy.

2. We Center Those Most Impacted Equity work requires centering the voices of people experiencing inequity—not just leadership perspectives. We design engagement processes that prioritize community voice.

3. We Build for Sustainability We don't just do the work for you—we build your team's capacity to continue the work long after our engagement ends. Systems that last, not dependency on consultants.

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Sectors Served

  • BCC primarily works with small- and mid-sized nonprofits and community organizations focused on racial justice, gender equity, economic justice, and inclusive creativity. These are organizations with lean teams, ambitious missions, and leaders who understand that investing in organizational infrastructure is how you make the mission sustainable. If that sounds like your organization, you are in the right place.

    BCC occasionally works with foundations exploring trust-based or participatory grantmaking, and with other mission-driven organizations on a case-by-case basis when the mission and values are a genuine fit.