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I’m Shelley, and I help leaders, staff, partners, and communities move from ideas to impact.
Achieving, together
Collaborative
Collaboration fuels success. As an extension of your team, I immerse myself in your vision and goals to build opportunities for others to join and advance your cause. Utilizing my expertise to help you develop a cohesive strategy that is deeply inclusive, embraces key partners, builds equitable solutions, and actualizes impact.
Change
Change is constant. Clear, consistent communication is key before, during, and after decision making cycles. I create environments where transparency is natural and productive. Your voice and attention is crucial to retaining partners through change. I am your partner in honing your message and building consensus.
Street art message from New Orleans. John H, one of the anonymous street artists who created this and other signs after 2005, said they were meant to be "felt, not rationally dissected" and that the message was designed to encourage people to be more tolerant and patient. This message in particular resonates with me and informs my approach to work and life.
Expertise Nonprofit Consulting
Strategic planning
From discreet project management to building multiyear organizational strategic plans, our work together will provide you a roadmap to move from idea to impact. I tailor strategic planning processes that allow you to connect deeply with staff and constituents. Operationalizing with equity and inclusion of all stakeholders and supporters.
Coalition building
Building buy in among staff or working across governmental, philanthropic, and community led efforts, your vision will lead the way. Our work will ensure that your ideas are tested and built drawing from existing ecosystems, with flexibility and openness to potential partners. Your impact depends on support across sectors, let’s build it together.
Resource solutions
Every effort requires some level of resources, I will help you define the resources your work requires to be successful. I bring over 20+ years in fundraising, local, state, and federal advocacy, volunteer recruitment, and grants management - from sourcing, applying, evaluating, and reporting. Our work will establish champions and resources.
"Meeting the moment of crisis in our community, Shelley was able to identify those doing good work with New Orleans children and families and support their access to foundation and governmental funding."
Gina Warner, CEO - National AfterSchool Association
"Shelley’s dedication to equity is relentless, her strong advocacy for families with limited access to high quality literacy engagement allowed our programming to reach new communities and connect to additional resources."
Miranda Restovic, CEO - Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
"Shelley provided invaluable collaboration to our entire team with the uncanny ability to leverage colleagues’ strengths and is an exemplar of transparency and accountability. Her ability to foster genuine relationships and influence others moved our team to a more robust analysis of root causes that created significant solutions."
Qasim Davis, colleague - New Schools for New Orleans
