Foundation Services

  • Community Impact

    Develop and run grant programs as an extension of your team, or train new staff to be effective program officers.

  • Development

    Fundraising for Community Foundations is unique. Elly brings expertise in effectively engaging donors to give to and through your CF.

  • Philanthropic Services

    Professional development for your team in philanthropic advising, or working alongside you to enhance your philanthropic services to deepen engagement with donors.

Community Foundation Services:

Elly has more than a decade of Community Foundation experience and can support your team with:

  • Training and coaching new staff in community impact, philanthropic advising, and development in a Community Foundation context.

  • Developing, managing, and evaluating grant programs and community impact initiatives.

  • Fundraising for planned gifts, CF initiatives, disaster relief and recovery, and establishing DAFs and other funds.

  • Analyzing affiliate partnerships and working with your team to optimize the relationship for greater fundraising success and community impact.

  • Managing special projects and initiatives.

  • Strategic planning services and board facilitation, in partnership with Demarest Strategy Group.

Private Foundation Services:

With her experience as both a philanthropic advisor to families and grantmaker, Elly can support your team with:

  • Training and coaching new staff in community impact.

  • Developing, managing, and evaluating grant programs and community impact initiatives.

  • Managing special projects and initiatives.

  • Strategic planning services and board facilitation, in partnership with Demarest Strategy Group.

"Elly Grogan is a dream to work with. She is deeply knowledgeable about philanthropy, community foundations, organizational development and social change. She holds this knowledge lightly in service of her clients’ and partners’ needs, with strong facilitation, process design skill and emotional intelligence. I worked with her closely for many years and could not trust her more, as a professional and as a human being."

— Katherine Fulton, former president, Monitor Institute;
founder, Sonoma Valley Catalyst Fund