Heliotrope Strategy

Opportunity is everywhere.

Organizational strategy, program design, fundraising, and board development that move mission-driven organizations out of narrow places and into their next season of growth. It's time to grow.

Trusted by
  • Arizona Dept. of Health Services
  • Bitch Media
  • NM Environmental Law Center
  • Sunnyside Foundation

Why Heliotrope

A heliotrope turns to follow the sun. Your work can do the same. Opportunity is everywhere, and there are always more resources than they appear.

We help leaders see the fuller landscape, find the light, and grow into it. It's time to grow.

What we do

Four ways we help you flourish.

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Organizational Strategy

We help you set a clear direction and the plan to reach it.

  • A practical roadmap for the next 12 to 24 months
  • Priorities your whole team can rally behind
  • Strategy sessions that turn vision into action

Fundraising

We help you grow funding that fits your mission, never against it.

  • A major gift pipeline that keeps growing
  • Grant programs and winning proposals
  • Donor strategy that turns interest into investment

Program Design

We build programs that deliver real impact and grow with you.

  • Programs designed around clear outcomes
  • Logic models and measures that actually work
  • Pilots ready to scale when the time is right

Board Development

We help your board lead with clarity, confidence, and purpose.

  • Board strategy sessions and annual planning
  • Stronger recruitment, roles, and governance
  • Facilitation that turns big questions into decisions

How it works

A simple way to begin.

01

Talk it through

A short, free call to understand what you are building and where you feel boxed in.

02

Get a plan

A focused engagement with clear deliverables: a roadmap, a memo, a coaching series, or a planning retreat.

03

Grow with support

We stay alongside you as you put it into motion and adjust as the season shifts.

Our approach

We map the landscape, find where the light is, and help you decide what is worth growing, then how to make it thrive.

We work with a small number of partners at a time, intentionally. That focus is what lets the work bloom.

Access for all

A pay-what-you-can model for the orgs doing the work.

Opportunity should reach everyone. We offer pay-what-you-can pricing for BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving organizations with budgets under $1 million, so the cost of great strategy never stands between you and your next season of growth.

  • Open to BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving organizations
  • For organizations with annual budgets under $1M
  • You set a rate that works for your mission and your moment
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Let's grow

It's time to grow.

Opportunity is everywhere. We are taking on a few new partners this season, and one short call is all it takes to begin.

Organizational strategy · Program design · Fundraising · Board development