ECB Strategies is a consulting practice that partners 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. He brings more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, movement building, and philanthropic advising.
As an organizer, impact investor, and fundraiser, he has led national grantmaking portfolios, co-founded civic tech companies, and taught university courses on social entrepreneurship and nonprofit development.
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Services
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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 proposals, and building simple systems to track progress and nurture relationships.
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We support foundations, donor collaboratives, and individual donors in designing grantmaking strategies that align their values with the needs of organizations on the ground. This includes portfolio design, RFP development, stakeholder engagement, and learning and evaluation planning.
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We help founders and teams turn ambitious ideas into real-world impact. That can mean sharpening your big vision and theory of change, mapping a focused first year, and creating the pitch decks and fundraising story you need to bring funders, partners, and early hires on board.
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We partner with executive directors, senior staff, and emerging leaders as thought partners and coaches. We work together on leadership style, team culture, communication and public speaking, burnout, and big decisions that keep you up at night. We also support meeting design, retreats, and candid conversations about strategy, governance, and fundraising.
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We help organizations and funders think beyond single projects to the broader ecosystem they’re working in. We focus on the relationships and networks that really move the work, helping you design programs and coalitions that align your goals with the right people so you can go farther, together.
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When the work doesn’t fit a standard service, we build a process around it. We tap our wide network of movement leaders, technologists, researchers, and creatives so you have the right mix of people in the room to tackle complex challenges.
Impact
Mobilizing Resources
Raised millions of dollars from foundations, individual donors, and the public sector. We bring a dual perspective as both funder and grantee, with a focus on trust and long-term partnership.
Supporting 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.
Funding Movements
Designed national grantmaking portfolios, convened advisory committees of funders and grassroots leaders, and supported collaborative funds moving money toward media, movements, and democracy.
Winning Campaigns
Backed winning ballot measures and candidates in partnership with grassroots groups and philanthropy, helping shift public resources and decision-making power toward communities.
Clients & PARTNERS
Let’s work together.
We’ll start with a conversation to learn where you’re at and explore a partnership that fits your needs and budget. We typically work with clients through:
Hourly consulting and coaching
Short-term projects with clear deliverables
Ongoing monthly retainers for deeper partnership
When it’s helpful, we draw on an extensive community of collaborators across nonprofits, philanthropy, media, technology, law, business, and more.