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Dig into our blog for free, practical advice to build your nonprofit or foundation brand — from the inside out.

We glean these insights through real-world engagements. Write our content with communications leaders and first-time CEOs in mind. And as a field builder, share our expertise widely to guide organizations on both sides of the grant.

Side-by-side tablets displaying Mighty Ally's Fundable/Findable Bootcamp course and Kevin L. Brown's book, Fundable & Findable.

Fixing fundraising from the ground up.

We’ve guided bold brands in every corner of the world. Eight years. 340 partners. 51 countries. But we want to democratize these brand and funding resources. Make our Fundable/Findable Framework accessible to any nonprofit leader, anywhere. So they can fix their fundraising.
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A pair of outreached hands, holding paper money.

Diversified funding is a nonprofit nemesis.

Diversified fundraising helps you survive early on. But it’s not how you get big. If you want to grow significantly, you have to muster the courage to put all your eggs in one basket. Then engage all those eggs in that one basket. And meet the requirements of that primary funding source.
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MIGHTY ALLY founding partner Eve Wanjiru leading a live theory of change workshop to a room full of African nonprofit leaders.

The one-sentence theory of change.

A confused mind never funds. And the most common donor grievance we hear (by far) is that they can’t understand what you actually do. So here’s a formula to help. A simple, six-piece format to clarify and summarize your theory of change in a single sentence.
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Side-by-side tablets displaying Mighty Ally's Fundable/Findable Bootcamp course and Kevin L. Brown's book, Fundable & Findable.

Fixing fundraising from the ground up.

We’ve guided bold brands in every corner of the world. Eight years. 340 partners. 51 countries. But we want to democratize these brand and funding resources. Make our Fundable/Findable Framework accessible to any nonprofit leader, anywhere. So they can fix their fundraising.
Read More
A pair of outreached hands, holding paper money.

Diversified funding is a nonprofit nemesis.

Diversified fundraising helps you survive early on. But it’s not how you get big. If you want to grow significantly, you have to muster the courage to put all your eggs in one basket. Then engage all those eggs in that one basket. And meet the requirements of that primary funding source.
Read More
MIGHTY ALLY founding partner Eve Wanjiru leading a live theory of change workshop to a room full of African nonprofit leaders.

The one-sentence theory of change.

A confused mind never funds. And the most common donor grievance we hear (by far) is that they can’t understand what you actually do. So here’s a formula to help. A simple, six-piece format to clarify and summarize your theory of change in a single sentence.
Read More
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MOLLY BURKE, CYCLE CONNECT