Build the business behind your nonprofit expertise

Relatable Nonprofit helps nonprofit consultants set up their offers, marketing, sales, client delivery, and operations, so their business brings in steady clients and income.

Explore the Mentorship

As featured in

Catalina Parker has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company, Devex, and Motherly

The five foundations of a nonprofit consulting business

Consulting comes with a second job: running the business. You already know how to help nonprofits. Getting clients and steady income comes down to five foundations:

Offers
What you sell, who it's for, and what you charge.
Marketing
How you talk about your value and how the right clients find you.
Sales
Knowing where your next clients are coming from, and turning conversations into signed proposals.
Client delivery
How you onboard clients and communicate with them, so expectations stay clear and the work stays in scope.
Operations
Your numbers and the back end: tracking what matters and knowing when to hire help.

All five can be learned, and you don't have to figure them out alone.

Meet consultants who've built their businesses with Relatable Nonprofit

Read the stories of nonprofit consultants who've been through the Mentorship, with specialties from fundraising to finance and operations.

Read consultant stories

I had the nonprofit expertise. I had to learn the business side.

Hi, I'm Cat. At 24, I became a program officer at a $500M foundation. It looked perfect on paper, but I was miserable, and my health and family were paying for it. So I left and started consulting.

My first year went well because my clients came from people I already knew. Then my network ran out, and I realized I didn't have a business. I had a few clients and no plan for getting the next ones. It took years of trial and error, and some expensive mistakes, to learn how to turn my nonprofit expertise into clear, profitable offers, find clients beyond referrals, and manage those clients without the work taking over my life.

Since 2021, my business has generated nearly $1 million in revenue. I still consult, but most of my work now is teaching other nonprofit consultants what I learned the hard way. I've worked with 170+ of them so far, helping them build businesses that pay the bills and let them do meaningful work on their own terms.

Read my story