Services

Cheyenna has spent over 20 years working with grassroots groups and specializes in working with small organizations to make the most of limited staff capacity and financial constraints. She provides organizational and leadership development, internal and external nonprofit communications from brainstorm to launch, grassroots and institutional fundraising strategies, and online program design. All fees are charged according to a sliding scale based on organizational budget.


Solidarity Economy Organizational Development for Nonprofits and Co-ops

  • supporting organizations undergoing or desiring leadership or base transitions

  • board and advisory body creation, governance, and growth

  • start-up support including executive coaching, work plans, and strategic plans

  • supporting human resource needs, including incorporating anti-oppression into hiring/termination processes, staff policies, and evaluations

  • connecting organizations to solidarity economy vendors and trainers who can support with specific needs

  • incorporating solidarity economy and cooperative strategies into organizational culture and structure, including bylaws and other legally binding documents

You can learn more about Cheyenna’s services related to nonprofit workplace democracy or “worker self-directed nonprofits” at tosstheboss.org.

Nonprofit Communications 

  • writing and editorial support

  • curating, managing, and evaluating e-newsletters

  • film production including scriptwriting, project management, and budgeting

  • crisis and rapid response communications

  • internal communications systems including database design and management, volunteer coordination, membership engagement, and board/leadership/staff communications


Fundraising

  • drafting, executing, and evaluating print and digital campaigns

  • special events including creating, executing, and evaluating promotional and giving communications strategies

  • writing and editing philanthropic letters of inquiry, grants, and reports

  • writing personalized donor acknowledgement letters

  • developing sustainer/recurring donor programs

  • crowdfunding campaigns including narrative, film production, campaign copy, social media, and overall strategy

  • individual and major donor solicitation research and narrative coaching

  • social media individual giving campaigns

  • foundation prospecting and cultivation


Online Program Design

  • Designing, executing, and evaluating adult online trainings using a popular education approach

Cheyenna trained in online program design with Training for Change and the late Elandria Williams at PeoplesHub, an online movement school where she designs, coaches, and trains others.


Community-based Research

  • Creating, executing, and evaluating movement and community research projects including individual interviews, surveys, focus groups, field review, reporting, and evaluation.


Testimonials

Testimonials

Cheyenna brought stability, accountability, and balance to our organization. She facilitated the process needed to transition towards a fair and functional group, and was instrumental in helping us reach consensus and understanding when navigating decisions. She is a fantastic writer and strategist, and our communications and fundraising work is much more successful for her efforts.

Agustina Vidal, Resources Development Coordinator at Fireweed Collective

Cheyenna brilliantly and compassionately shepherded us through a massive transition, one that could have been the sunsetting of our 45-year old organization. Her care and presence was tangible, and her spacious facilitation allowed our values to emerge and then guide the strategic planning and board development into our next chapter. She balanced this facilitated emergence with much-needed structure and technical skills from a wealth of knowledge and experience, and it was the embodiment of our values in these very concrete policies and practices that created the stable foundation for us to step forward with confidence. It was nothing short of magic, and I'm so grateful.

Rahil Rojiani, Board Chair at Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Cheyenna is a hugely energetic, dedicated, and skillful organizer and communicator, highly principled and hard-working. A pleasure to work with!

Cliff Rosenthal, Executive Director of National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions

Cheyenna has not only helped my organization work better, she has also shared her immensely valuable skills, knowledge, and insights to help me develop my own leadership skills and capacities for the last 5 years. In the messy world of nonprofits, outreach, and member engagement, Cheyenna understands the perspectives, needs, and tensions from all sides. As my mother would say, she would still be a bargain at twice the price!

Evan Casper-Futterman, Board Chair at Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City

Cheyenna demonstrates a deep respect for and desire to truly understand the community she is working with and for - personally working with her, I felt as though she truly sought to understand how to engage most effectively with our constituency, while keeping a keen eye on the landscape of our work and how to be accountable to a larger movement. Coming into an organization as a consultant for something as nuanced as communications is no small task. Cheyenna did a masterful job of listening and assessing how we communicate about our work while also proactively offering ideas, solutions, and frameworks from her own expertise and vantage point. Her editing skills are sharp, she is always clear with her feedback, and she asks bigger-picture strategy questions while also paying attention to commas, word choice, and visual layout.

Jessie Spector, Executive Director at Resource Generation

Cheyenna has been supportive, compassionate, and insightful throughout her time working with us. We were impressed by the way she came into our organization and learned about our communities and the issues we face. Since then, she’s been instrumental to skilling up our team, organizing our roles and programs, and providing the necessary structure to guide our work. We are in a much better place than we were before, in large part due to her efforts

Kaj Kraus, Development and Operations Director at HEARD

A Few Past and Current Clients, Partners, and Projects