Services
Overview
The We Collective offers bespoke engagements calibrated to context, culture, and complexity — for clients on every side of the philanthropic table. Whether you are a family stepping into strategic philanthropy for the first time, an established foundation navigating a major inflection point, a corporate foundation seeking greater mission coherence, or a nonprofit organization in the crucible of transition — this work is designed for you.
Satonya brings 30+ years of direct, senior-level experience inside foundations, corporate grantmaking operations, and nonprofit C-Suites to every engagement. She has managed $100MM grant portfolios, built grantmaking infrastructure from scratch, led sector-wide membership organizations, and coached executives through some of the hardest decisions in organizational life. This is not advisory from the periphery. This is counsel from someone who has done the work — at scale, under pressure, and with integrity.
ENGAGEMENT MODEL NOTE
Engagements are structured as project-based, retainer, or fractional arrangements — designed around your organization’s actual needs and timeline, not a pre-packaged service menu. Every engagement begins with a conversation.
FOR PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS
Executive Advising for Foundation Leadership
Strategic counsel for foundation executives, program officers, and board leaders navigating complex decisions, leadership transitions, and sector-wide shifts.
Values Alignment
Closing the gap between what your institution says it stands for and what your day-to-day practices actually reflect — in grantmaking, in relationships, and in internal culture.
Power-Aware Grantmaking
Honest, practical guidance for funders ready to examine and restructure the power dynamics embedded in their philanthropic relationships with nonprofit partners.
Funder Collaboratives
Designing, launching, and sustaining collaborative structures that pool funder resources and relationships to amplify collective impact.
Grantmaking Infrastructure & Operational Excellence
Building or optimizing the operational architecture of your grantmaking: systems, workflows, policies, staffing structures, and the technology that supports them.
FOR VISIONARY NONPROFITS
Executive Advising & Interim/Fractional Executive Leadership
Senior leadership capacity — deployed with the depth of a permanent hire and the agility of a consultant — for organizations in transition or requiring strategic reinforcement.
Board Governance & Grappling
Equipping boards to govern with clarity, courage, and accountability — including the hard conversations that most governance consultants avoid.
Nonprofit Mergers & Strategic Dormancy Planning
Thoughtful, humane guidance through consolidation, dissolution, and the full continuum of organizational lifecycle decisions that the sector too rarely plans for honestly.
Rightsizing & Strategic Restructuring
Redesigning organizational architecture to sustain mission and people with greater coherence, efficiency, and dignity.
Stakeholder Engagement & Partnership Development
Building authentic, sustained relationships between organizations and the communities, partners, and constituents they serve.
C-Suite Leadership Coaching
Individualized coaching for senior leaders navigating complexity, transition, and growth — with a focus on sustainable leadership practice and values-grounded decision-making.
FOR EMERGING PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTIONS
Strategic Philanthropy Entry Planning
For individuals and families stepping into intentional, strategic philanthropy: defining your giving philosophy, identifying priority areas, and building the infrastructure to give effectively.
Start-Up Foundation Architecture
For new foundations and philanthropic private offices: establishing governance structures, grantmaking models, staffing plans, operational policies, and organizational culture from the ground up.
Due Diligence Frameworks
Developing the analytical tools and processes to evaluate nonprofit partners with rigor, equity, and genuine partnership in mind.
Private Office Structure & Staffing
Designing the organizational structure, roles, and operational model for a philanthropic private office that reflects your values and scales with your giving.
Values Clarification & Giving Philosophy Development
A facilitated process to articulate what you believe, what you want to fund, and what kind of philanthropist you intend to be.
Philanthropic Strategy & Portfolio Design
Developing a coherent, values-aligned philanthropic strategy — from giving philosophy and priority areas to grantmaking models and evaluation frameworks.
FOR CORPORATE GIVING INSTITUTIONS
Grantmaking Strategy & Efficiency
Designing corporate grantmaking programs that are strategically coherent, operationally efficient, and authentically aligned with corporate values and community needs.
Community Relations & Nonprofit Partnership Development
Building and sustaining meaningful relationships between corporate entities and the nonprofit organizations and communities they seek to serve.
CRA Alignment & Compliance Support
Ensuring that community investment programs meet Community Reinvestment Act requirements while also delivering genuine community value.
Corporate/Foundation Collaborative Design
Creating collaborative structures that unite corporate and philanthropic resources around shared community goals.