Services

Advancing Equity

Embedding equity in our work isn’t just the right thing to do; it is essential for getting better outcomes. Leaven Partners provides programmatic support, coaching, and workshops to strengthen your next moves towards justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, whether it’s building commitments and capacity, designing or rethinking programs, or enlisting help in navigating challenges. Leaven Partners work agreements include concrete steps to embed equity in our goals, collaboration, and outcomes.

Strategy Development

Sessions has counseled many funders, donors, philanthropy-serving organizations, non-profits and emerging leaders working for social change. Get help to improve your understanding of philanthropy or the field, strengthen strategies, find partners, solve problems, and move worthwhile projects forward.

Clients

Funders and Donors

Your resources and leadership can make such a huge difference! Gain a thought partner or guide as you explore the field, make grants, develop strategy, or engage partners for greater impact.

Non-Profit and Philanthropy-Serving Organizations

Your work and the communities you serve are what philanthropy and social change are all about. Enlist a partner with deep experience to support you in making even more of a difference.

Other Clients

Call in help as you navigate and build relationships with philanthropy or non-profits for social benefit.

Navigating Philanthropy

Leaven Partners offers coaching on fundraising strategy, as well as workshops providing nonprofits with overviews of the relevant philanthropic landscape and tips for engaging foundations in those areas.

 Climate, Health, and Equity

The massive threats posed by climate change are paralleled by major opportunities to reduce harm through win-win partnerships across health, environmental, justice, community, environmental, and other interests. Sessions has deep experience in mapping the climate-health-equity landscape, in expanding support for those most impacted, and in building collaborations to improve health and equity outcomes through climate action.

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Partnerships

Sessions often partners with other phenomenal consultants, to bring clients a richer set of skills and lived experiences, including as part of multiracial teams for racial equity coaching. She has an active network of consultant partners to draw into projects and gladly refers people to other consultants if they might be a better fit for your project.