ECB Strategies is a consulting network partnering with organizations, campaigns, and leaders to tell their stories, grow their movements, and supercharge their impact.

Ev Boyle is the founder and principal of ECB Strategies, and brings more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, movement building, and philanthropic advising.

He has worked across the social change ecosystem as an organizer, impact investor, fundraiser, and executive, led national grantmaking portfolios, co-founded civic tech companies, and taught workshops and university courses on social entrepreneurship and nonprofit development.

Today he consults with nonprofits and mission-driven companies on fundraising, program design, and organizational development, helping them turn their values into clear plans, compelling storytelling, and lasting results.

Our Services

We help organizations design clear, realistic fundraising goals and then execute on them. This includes sharpening your case for support, mapping and prioritizing prospects, drafting and editing proposals, and building simple systems to track progress and stay on top of relationships.
We support foundations, donor collaboratives, and individual donors in designing grantmaking strategies that align their values with the needs of organizations doing the work. This includes portfolio design, RFP development, participatory grantmaking processes, and learning and evaluation.
We partner with executive directors, senior staff, and emerging leaders as thought partners and coaches. Together we work on leadership style, role clarity, team dynamics, communication, burnout, and big decisions that keep you up at night. We also support boards with meeting design, retreats, and candid conversations about strategy, governance, and fundraising expectations.
We help founders and teams turn ambitious ideas into practical plans. That might mean clarifying your mission and theory of change, pressure-testing your model, identifying early metrics, or deciding what you should stop doing so you can focus.
We help organizations and funders think beyond single projects to the broader ecosystem they’re part of. That can mean designing new programs, clarifying how your work fits into local or national movement strategy, or supporting collaborations across sectors like media, democracy, worker power, and civic tech.
Not every challenge fits neatly into a box. We also take on custom projects such as strategy memos and decision-making frameworks for leadership teams and boards; convenings, retreats, and workshops for coalitions or cross-sector partners; messaging and narrative for campaigns, reports, or websites; and program design documents and cases for support.

Our Impact

Sheparding Resources

Raised millions of dollars from foundations, individual donors, and public-sector sources. We bring a dual perspective as both funder and grantee, with a focus on trust, transparency, and long-term partnership.

Developing Leaders

Coached dozens of executive directors and senior leaders, advised and staffed nonprofit boards, and supported organizations through inflection points like launches, restructures, and leadership transitions.

Funds & Portfolio Design

Led national grantmaking portfolios, convened advisory committees of funders and grassroots leaders, and designed collaborative funds that move money toward community-rooted media, democracy, and movement infrastructure.

Winning Campaigns

Helped establish multi-year initiatives, support ballot measures and electoral campaigns, and work with coalitions of unions, grassroots groups, and philanthropy to shift power and public resources toward communities.