Building Community
One Campaign At A Time

Rose City Philanthropy is a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in leading nonprofits through capital campaigns, placemaking and public spaces, fundraising, and nonprofit executive search.

Seed throwing at the Hillsboro Plays Together groundbreaking, 2023.

Confronting Nonprofit Change
Head-On

Let's Rise Up Together for a Brighter Future

We provide sustainable solutions to meet your fundraising goals.

Capital Campaigns

Our nonprofit consulting firm helps your organization meet its campaign goals and build future fundraising capacity with feasibility studies for small, mid-size, and large nonprofits.

Fundraising

As a nonprofit fundraising company, we’ll help you assess if your major gift goals are realistic and create a strategy to reach your fundraising goals. We provide assessment, planning, and coaching that creates sustainable solutions.

Board Training

We help your team increase trust, engage in constructive conversations around ideas, commit to decisions, hold one another accountable, and focus on achieving collective results.

Placemaking & Public Spaces

We have deep experience in braiding public funds with private philanthropy.  Our campaign design, includes awareness campaigns and tools to promote inclusion and sustainable community engagement.

Ready to Serve: Meet the Experts Supporting Your Nonprofit Success

My favorite projects involve audacious goals and results-oriented teamwork.

Jeri Alcock - Senior Partner

I love bringing diverse voices to the table and tapping into the collective wisdom.

Lara Miller - Senior Partner

I love crafting of compelling fundraising messaging, and data-driven strategies.

mark parker - consultant

I'm a practitioner and educator, who's managed multi-million-dollar campaigns.

caryl Zenker - Consultant

I've helped mid to large health systems throughout the United States.

Penny Cowden - Consultant

Rose City Philanthropy Gives Back

Charitable gifts, volunteer hours, and free or reduced cost services since founding.

Customers served! $ 10000  Charitable Gifts Made
Customers served! 10000  Volunteer Hours
Customers served! $ 10000  Free or Reduced Cost Services

What Makes Rose City Philanthropy Different?

You are an expert in your mission. We are passionate about what we do. We know how vital nonprofit organizations are and how much they improve everyone’s quality of life in our community. Our goal is to turn your donors into a community of believers who are just as passionate about your work as you, so they help you share and grow your mission.

Small and Nimble with Big Results: The Full-Service Advantage

We're big enough to offer a range of services and small enough to be efficient, responsive and form strong bonds with our clients.

Data, Strategy and Joy Because Giving Should be Joyful

We encourage bold, informed leadership because strong teams advance their missions. We also believe giving and receiving should be joyous. 

FEATURED nonprofit consulting CLIENTS
sky lakes foundation
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guide dogs of america
sunshine division portland police
Relay Resources
latinobuilt
hollywood theatre portland oregon

Client Success Stories

kevin hughes parks specialist hillsboro oregon placemaking

Really highly refined work product. Professional demeanors. Excellent presentation skills. The practical, data-based recommendation… made it easy to make a case to my decisionmakers.

Kevin Hughes

Parks Project Specialist, City of Hillsboro

Parks and Recreation Department

NAMI renovation 2025

You gave us confidence that we could do it.

Chris Bouneff

Executive Director

NAMI Oregon

Photo courtesy of Black Oregon Land Trust.

we'd be honored to go on this journey with you

PROUD MEMBER OF
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NAO verified nonprofit service provider
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Certified Diversity Recruiter

We adhere to the Standards of Professional Practice and Performance Expectations of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Association of Philanthropic Counsel.

From Vision to Reality: Take the First Step to Reach Your Nonprofit Goals

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