Build a Sustainable Nonprofit Consulting Business Around the Expertise You Already Have

The Relatable Nonprofit Mentorship gives you personalized strategy and support to strengthen the business behind your expertise.

Whether you're clarifying your offers, trying to build a more reliable pipeline, improving your sales process, or figuring out how to grow what you've already built, we'll focus on what your business needs most right now.

You'll have a proven framework to work from, plus private strategy calls, direct feedback, and ongoing support as you make decisions and implement them.

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You Know How to Do the Nonprofit Work. Now You Need to Build the Business.

You already have expertise nonprofits value.

You know fundraising, operations, strategy, finance, grants, communications, board development, leadership, or another area of nonprofit work.

The challenge is turning that expertise into a consulting business that works consistently.

You may be working toward your first steady clients or already serving organizations. Either way, the business side can still feel unclear, inconsistent, or harder to manage than it should.

You find yourself wondering:

What services should I actually offer?
How should I price my work?
Where do clients consistently come from?
Why does every proposal feel different?
How do I stop starting over every time a contract ends?
How do I grow without working more hours?

Without strong business foundations, consulting can become overly customized, dependent on referrals, and difficult to predict.

The Mentorship helps you build the five fundamentals behind a stronger consulting business so you can market, sell, deliver, and grow with more consistency.

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A Framework for the Whole Business. A Plan Built Around Yours.

Every consulting business needs the same core foundations, but you don't necessarily need to work on all of them at once.We'll identify what's working, where you're getting stuck, and what needs your attention now. Then we'll use these five areas as the framework for strengthening your business.

Clarify what services you offer, who you help, what you charge, and what kind of business you are building.

Communicate your value effectively, stay visible, and build trust with the nonprofit leaders and organizations most likely to hire you.

Turn relationships and interest into paid client work through referrals, partnerships, outreach, follow-up, sales conversations, and tight proposals.

Create strong client results through clear expectations, healthy boundaries, scope control, communication, and thoughtful follow-through.

Create repeatable systems for managing your offers, marketing, sales, delivery, capacity, and operations as your business evolves.

Where Are You in Your Consulting Journey?

Members join at different stages, but they share the same need: stronger business foundations around their expertise.

Committed to Launching or Newly Started

You have decided to pursue consulting and need clarity around your services, audience, pricing, messaging, and first steps toward finding clients.

Getting Clients, but Still Inconsistent

You have landed a client or two, received referrals, or had promising conversations, but your offers, pricing, pipeline, or sales process still feel inconsistent.

Earning Revenue, but Lacking Structure

You have clients and money coming in, but the business still feels overly custom, dependent on you, difficult to manage, or vulnerable when a major contract ends.

Different stages. Same core problem. Your expertise is valuable, but it needs structure around it.

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Who the Mentorship Is Designed For

This is for you if:

✔ You are a current or former nonprofit professional who has decided to pursue consulting seriously.

✔ You are building or strengthening a founder-led consulting practice rather than trying to grow a large agency.

✔ You need support with your services, positioning, pricing, marketing, sales, delivery, boundaries, or systems.

✔ You are willing to make decisions, test ideas, have sales conversations, and implement between calls.

✔ You want personalized feedback and structure, not more disconnected information.

It may not be the right fit if:

✘ You are still deciding whether consulting is something you want to pursue.

✘ You want clients, referrals, or revenue handed to you.

✘ You are looking for passive income, influencer growth, or generic business coaching.

✘ You want someone else to build the business for you.

✘ You do not currently have the capacity to participate and implement.

I Know What It’s Like to Be Great at the Work and New to the Business Side.

I came into consulting with years of nonprofit experience, but I had to learn the business side from scratch.

I underpriced. I relied too heavily on referrals. I struggled with packaging, sales, scope, and boundaries.

Over time, I built the systems that made the business more structured and sustainable.

Over the past five years, I’ve built a business that has generated nearly $1 million in revenue.

Today, I help nonprofit professionals and consultants build the business structure around their expertise, so they can make clearer decisions, avoid expensive mistakes, and create a consulting business that actually works for their life.

Results Members Have Created Through the Mentorship

Relatable Nonprofit has supported more than 100 nonprofit professionals and consultants through The Mentorship Program.

Erin P.

Nonprofit Operations Consultant

"I finalized three contracts that will replace my 9-5 salary."

Candra I.

Prospect Research Consultant

"I’ve locked in 6 new clients and have 3 proposals in discussion."

Jamie M.

Nonprofit Leadership Consultant

"I landed my first client, AND first retainer!"

Bryan W.

Nonprofit Finance Consultant

"I have two retainer clients under contract at the same time."

Katie B.

Nonprofit Systems Consultant

"Kind Capacity received its first official signed contract and payment."

John G.

Development Operations Consultant

"The outreach has paid off. It’s a three-month contract to start, with the expectation that it could turn into an ongoing relationship."

Ellena F.

Donor Retention Consultant

“I have two retainer clients in my first year.”

Shelby S.

Fundraising Consultant

"I received my first business payment, and it nearly covers my full investment in Relatable Nonprofit."

Mike S.

Events & Sponsorships Consultant

"I paid all my bills and had enough left over to make a small contribution to my IRA."

How the Mentorship Works

You won't be handed a curriculum and expected to figure out how it applies to your business.

We start by looking at where your business is now, where you want it to go, and what's getting in the way. From there, we'll identify your priorities and create a personalized path for your time inside Mentorship.

✔ Start with a private kickoff session to assess your business, clarify your goals, and identify your biggest priorities.

✔ Meet with me privately each month to work through decisions, review what's happening in your business, and determine what to focus on next.

✔ Get DM support between calls when questions, opportunities, proposals, pricing decisions, or client situations come up.

✔ Use the Nonprofit Consultant OS as your framework and resource library, pulling in the lessons, templates, and tools that are relevant to what you're working on.

✔ Join Community trainings and workshops for additional learning, practical support, and connection with other nonprofit consultants.

You don't have to work through the business in a predetermined order. We focus on what will make the biggest difference for your business now.

What You Get Inside the Mentorship

A six-month personalized mentorship designed to help you build or strengthen a sustainable nonprofit consulting business.

$2,997

Financing is available if you prefer to spread out the investment.

Monthly private strategy sessions with Cat
DM support between calls for questions, feedback, and business decisions
Personalized feedback on your offers, pricing, messaging, sales, proposals, client situations, and systems
Full access to the Nonprofit Consultant OS, including templates, tools, and frameworks
Full access to The Community, including biweekly trainings and workshops, quarterly challenges, resources, and the consultant network

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