Nonprofit Coach & Consultant
Finally! A Nonprofit Coach Who's Been in the Boardroom and Team Office… and Gets It.
Expert executive coaching, consulting, and community-building fundraising strategy
for nonprofit leaders who are ready to fundraise with clarity and confidence.
Leading a Nonprofit Wasn't Supposed to Feel This Isolating
Our world has become increasingly complex, but you’re still expected to make magic happen with limited resources.
You’re expected to:
- Engage your board of directors
- Inspire donors
- Align your leadership team
- Make decisions that will shape your organization’s future
All while staying true to your mission and values and not burning out.
Maybe it’s the Sunday night before a board meeting and you’re rewriting the same talking points for the third time.
Maybe it’s budget season, and the numbers just don’t stretch as far as your vision does.
Maybe it’s realizing your team has plenty of heart and not quite enough leadership skills or nonprofit management experience to turn that heart into a sustainable program.
That weight is real, because your nonprofit organization, your executive team, your board of directors, and the communities you serve are counting on you to get it right.
This might sound familiar whether you’re:
- Running a small-but-mighty organization with a staff of two
- Leading a mid size organization with a full board and development department
The size changes, but the core challenge usually doesn’t. Your organization needs solid nonprofit management and a fundraising strategy built around your actual capacity, not a list of best practices someone pulled off the internet.
At The Philanthropy Coach, we believe that through targeted coaching, a healthy, thriving, well resourced organization is possible, and creating it doesn’t need to feel overwhelming. We believe fundraising should be an intentional, community-centered process that builds meaningful relationships and fuels real, lasting impact.
Nonprofit Coaching & Consulting Services
However You Need Support, We Meet You There
Every organization’s path to success looks a little different. Whether you’re a small team stretching every dollar or a more complex nonprofit organization with a board to align around a major project or campaign, there’s a coaching engagement or consulting service built for where you are today.
Nonprofit Consulting Services
Each consulting engagement is designed to strengthen organizational effectiveness and everyday nonprofit management, whether that means building a fundraising strategy from scratch or assessing whether your organization is ready for its next capital campaign.
A clear, actionable fundraising strategy built around what your organization can actually achieve, based on your ambitions and current resources.
An honest look at what’s working, what’s stuck, and what needs to change to have your fundraising operating at maximum effectiveness.
A straight answer on whether your organization is ready for a major campaign, and answers about what needs to happen first if it’s not.
Our Corporate Philanthropy & CSR Consulting services empower your team to do more good, with greater intention and less time investment. Whether building a giving strategy from scratch or refining the way you partner with organizations you already support, we help you create real, lasting impact in the communities where you do business.
Individual & Group Coaching
The Philanthropy Coach offers Executive & Leadership Coaching designed to unlock your full potential as an executive director, development leader, or nonprofit professional. Based on your organization’s vision and capacity, you can choose between dedicated one-on-one support or joining Club TPC for group coaching. Whether you work with Hannah individually or as part of a collective, you will gain access to transformative strategies and personalized support to help you reach your most ambitious goals.
One-on-one executive coaching for nonprofit leaders, plus team coaching for executive teams and staff navigating growth, transition, or burnout. Coaching sessions are built around your organization’s real challenges so you leave each session with something you can actually use, and not left trying to figure out how to make your organization fit into a generic curriculum.
Not ready for 1:1 consulting? Club TPC is a live group coaching membership for nonprofit professionals, hot seat coaching twice a month, plus a full library of mini courses and templates you can work through at your own pace, and refer to any time.
Nonprofit Board Training
Our Board Training & Retreat Facilitation services empower your board and leadership team to show up as true partners. Whether building the fundraising confidence and clarity your board needs to engage, or getting your team aligned and moving forward with a dedicated retreat and action plan, we help you drive meaningful impact.
Helping boards of directors understand their role in fundraising and organizational leadership, get comfortable talking about the organization’s mission and impact, and gain confidence around all things fundraising.
Hands-on leadership development for executive teams that’s less sit and listen and more facilitated decision-making, with a healthy side of humor and team building.
Keynote Speaking
Hannah is also a sought after keynote and conference speaker on nonprofit philanthropy, leadership, nonprofit board management and community-building fundraising practices. If your conference or team retreat needs a speaker who can make fundraising feel joyfully human again, this is where to start.
Here's How Nonprofit Coaching and Consulting Works
Connect
We'll talk through your organization's goals, pain points, and vision. No judgment, just an honest conversation about where things stand.
Get a customized plan
We'll build a targeted plan that aligns your fundraising strategy, leadership, and board around your unique mission.
Get equipped
We'll equip your executive team with the guidance, tools, and confidence to build a lasting culture of philanthropy, long after our work together wraps up.
Don't Just Take Our Word For It;
See Our Client Stories
Most people find Hannah through a referral in the first place, and once they’ve worked with her, they tend to keep talking about it. Here’s a bit of what that’s looked like for organizations like yours.
‘She helped our Development department increase our fundraising 50% year over year from $1M to $1.5M!’
“Working with Hannah has been extraordinary. I am not overstating this. She is so poised, polished and yet at the same time accessible. Her wealth of knowledge is also extraordinary. She has a true gift for this work and I am so grateful to be a beneficiary of her knowledge, kindness and experience.
Hannah was hired by our organization to help our Development department with our strategic plan and to coach the Development department. She was also hired to consult on a potential Capital Campaign.
She led a planning (feasibility) study that led to the Board of Directors deciding to move forward with a Capital Campaign. She also helped our Development department increase our fundraising 50% year over year from $1M to $1.5M!
Her guidance, suggestions and help focusing the development department on what was essential, led to our overall success. Hannah was our cheerleader and always made herself available to provide advice and root us on from the sidelines.
Access to Hannah and her wisdom is at the top of the list, but I have also really enjoyed meeting with the other participants and learning about things they are working on at their nonprofits. I also like the exchange of ideas that goes on during a coaching session.”
Kathleen Diehlmann, Director of Development
The Brother Benno Foundation
Meet Your Philanthropy Coach and Consultant
Hi, I’m Hannah Berger; a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) with more than 25 years in the field as a professional fundraiser, nonprofit executive, a board member, a keynote speaker, and an expert consultant who’s helped raise more than $150 million alongside teams just like yours.
I’ve sat exactly where you’re sitting: unsure what to prioritize with limited time and limited resources. As an experienced coach and consultant, I blend executive coaching, organizational development experience, and hands-on fundraising expertise into every client’s coaching engagement. The special combination creates one-of-a-kind support built around the unique needs of founders, executive directors, board members and fundraising professionals..
I’ve led leadership development work with teams navigating growth, coached development directors through their first capital campaign, and helped boards of directors rediscover the joy in raising funds for a mission they truly believe in. Some of that work is expert strategy. A lot of it is sitting with someone like you in a hard moment and helping them find their footing again.
I’m here to walk alongside you with strategy, heart, and a little fun along the way.
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Imagine Fundraising With a Nonprofit Coach in Your Corner
Imagine leading your organization’s fundraising with confidence, supported by an engaged board, inspired donors, and a thriving culture of philanthropy. Imagine making decisions with clarity, strengthening relationships that fuel your mission, and creating lasting impact that ripples through your community.