In a nutshell, I consult & advise nonprofits, mission-driven startups, social entrepreneurs, and corporate social responsibility teams on a range of social impact areas, all focused on building capacity, increasing efficiency, clarifying vision, and driving impact. Expertise includes:

• Pro Bono Volunteerism

• SWOT Analysis & Strategic Planning

• Theory of Change Development

• Program Design & Strategy

• Business & Fund Development

• Event facilitation

Impact Day MSP

Founder & Director

Impact Day is a cross-sector workshop that leverages corporate sector talent for social sector needs. We pair nonprofits in need of capacity-building support to experts in their field who give their time pro bono to tackle challenges and develop solutions.

As founder, I conceptualized, developed, and implemented Impact Day. I’m now scaling Impact Day as a program of HandsOn Twin Cities as an in-person event and pivoted in 2020 to a virtual event open to nonprofits and volunteers across the country.

HandsOn Twin Cities

Director of Strategic Initiatives & Growth

HandsOn Twin Cities works to inspire, equip, and mobilize people to solve the most pressing challenges in our communities through volunteerism.

Building off my discovery work as an external consultant, I joined HandsOn Twin Cities (HOTC) as their Director of Strategic Initiatives & Growth to build organizational infrastructure, including web redesign and CRM implementation, as well as design and develop their first-ever pro bono volunteer programming.

Speaking and panel engagements have included partnerships with Points of Light, Common Impact, Charles Schwab Foundation, the Twin Cities’ Corporate Volunteerism Council, Navigating Through Change, and more.

Managing Director, Pro Bono Advisory Program

Upon development of the Pro Bono Advisory Program, I shifted gears into scaling HandsOn’s pro bono programming. In less than a year, the corporate partnerships and program revenue exponentially grew and we’re working with 8+ corporations to build out their custom internal pro bono programs & engagements. Corporate partners and engagements include:

• Target: Leading the charge on their commitment to provide 10,000 hours of pro bono to BIPOC-owned small businesses utilizing local employees across every single functional area at Target HQ. Expanding to small businesses and store employees nationally in 2021. Close to 60 small businesses have been supported through the program already.

• General Mills Inc.:

  • Designed, developed & delivering a new annual engagement for their GoodWorks program to provide robust pro bono support 10 BIPOC-owned small businesses.

  • Designed, developed & delivering a new program specific to their ITQ Integrated Operations team to provide in-depth holistic pro bono to one BIPOC-owned small business in the CPG/food & bev industry.

• Unilever: Developing and implementing their robust Community Connect pro bono program for their employees across the country to support 24 BIPOC-owned small businesses in the Twin Cities in partnership with high-potential Genesys Works interns

• Other corporate clients include Land O’Lakes, Xcel Energy, Ecolab, Thrivent, and Andersen Windows & Doors

Salesforce.org

Employee Engagement

Salesforce.org puts the world’s best technology in the hands of nonprofits and educational institutions, so they connect their organizations and accelerate their impact.

As an Employee Engagement Contractor, I managed the West Coast & HQ employee engagement team by building sustainable and scalable programs and engaging Salesforce employees in new and innovative ways.

Twin Cities Startup Week & Beta

Director of Impact

Twin Cities Startup Week (TCSW), launched & led by Beta which connects entrepreneurs with resources, has grown from 15 events in its inaugural year in 2014 to 150+, showcasing about 500 different businesses and social entrepreneurs along the way.

For TCSW 2018, Beta created the Director of Impact role to build out, enhance, promote, and measure its social impact and diversity, equity & inclusion efforts. See below 2018 and subsequent 2019 Star Tribune articles regarding the success of the work.

Other projects include:

Research Consultant: Oberkotter Foundation

In partnership with product innovation company, Moon March, led the research for development of new strategy & product.

Fundraising Consultant: Malama Kaua’i

Provided strategic consulting support regarding fund development, program design, and logic modeling for new pilot program.

Event Director: Hack the Gap

Provided event planning and facilitation support alongside the co-founder by driving sponsorship, managing volunteers, and fine-tuning event design.

Program Design Consultant: Taproot Foundation

Developed new pro bono program - soup-to-nuts - that was more flexible, more efficient, and more effective than the 15-year-old award-winning program it was replacing.

Trainer & Public Speaker: Taproot Foundation

Led corporate employees through day-long robust trainings on pro bono best practices and managed corporate social responsibility client relationships.