We make it make sense.
About Us
Grants and Grit is powered by a team of culturally grounded strategists who move with both experience and integrity. We bring together skills built across nonprofit, philanthropic, entrepreneurial, and grassroots ecosystems, and we carry the lived experience of navigating them as Black women, artists, activists, organizers, and community leaders.
We have worked inside nonprofits, advised foundations, built campaigns, led programs, and secured millions in funding. But beyond credentials, we bring what matters most, the perspective of people who have been under-resourced while over-delivering, who have carried movements while being overlooked, and who are committed to doing it differently.
We know what it takes to translate community brilliance into funder language without compromising values. We know how to design systems that sustain people, not just programs. And we know that our unity, imagination, and lived truth are sources of power.
At Grants and Grit, you are not just hiring consultants. You are entering a partnership rooted in justice, care, and possibility. Together, we merge strategy with life, data with dignity, and rigor with deep respect for the communities we serve and are a part of. We are not afraid to challenge systems that were never built for us and we are just as committed to building new ones that are.
A Modern Approach
At Grants and Grit, we bring an equity-centered approach to nonprofit development that honors culture, community, and complexity.
We reject extractive fundraising models and outdated nonprofit playbooks that ask Black and Brown leaders to shrink their brilliance or justify their impact. Instead, we offer strategy that is honest, human, and rooted in collective power.
Our work blends technical expertise with culturally grounded storytelling, restorative practices, and the inside knowledge of how philanthropy really works. We meet our partners where they are and build with them toward where they deserve to be.
In this moment of reckoning across philanthropy and social impact, we represent what comes next:
Strategy that centers people, not just programs
Development practices grounded in equity, not exploitation
Tools and training that sustain leaders as much as organizations
We are not here to replicate broken systems. We are here to create new ones, with grit, care, and clarity.