Your Social Impact Organization is creating communities where people are safe, resourced, and have access.
You’re solving the world’s problems. Who’s solving yours?
Your Social Impact Organization needs more money. You feel like it’s the root of the issue and if you could just have more, you could hire that person, build that program, and solve that need. Instead, you’re denied for grants, your donors are fatigued, and you don’t know how to access new funders.
You know you need help but you can’t quite figure out the problem. You’ve tried hiring one-off experts to solve one-off issues but something still isn’t right. You’re missing opportunities and deadlines. Your board is pushing for progress yet they don’t even really understand what you do.
Feeling lost in the social impact wilderness?
Where do you focus first? Raising money? Fixing unidentifiable issues?
What you really need is a committed, trustworthy, neutral 3rd party to help you decipher what’s holding you back and design a prioritized trail map to reach your full potential — and ultimately achieve your mission.
About
We are Osa Philanthropy LLC, a seasoned guide that meets you where you are now and strategically helps you get to where you're going next.
Osa is a mother-owned boutique consulting firm that busts through the noise of fund development to help Social Impact Organizations step into their power and place and ultimately reach financial stability.
Osa Philanthropy believes that each social impact organization has a unique contribution to make to this world. We help you unlock your unique lifeforce through a 360° partnership designed for social impact organizations.
Founded by Lara Sepanski Pimentel, a mother, and humanitarian who discovered her need to do well by doing good as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Dominican Republic. That experience, along with a Master of Public Administration degree from Syracuse University, and about 20 years of work, has shaped Lara’s understanding of the world. This is her unique contribution, and through it, she has impacted nonprofits and their beneficiaries with sharp fundraising expertise. Lara has raised more than $23M throughout her career from individuals, foundations, corporate partners, sponsors and small government grants.
Curious to learn more?
“Osa,” Spanish for “female bear,” was founded to uplift, guide, and protect community and is rooted in the belief that organizations do good work and make communities better — but often need dedicated partners to help them decipher what’s truly holding them back. We are a bi-lingual team deeply connected to the real issues while also masters of organizational life cycles, business strategy, fundraising, brand, and communications.
There are many fundraising consultants out there. What we do is different.
Our team joins yours, providing customized support that meets you where you are now and strategically guides you to achieve your next milestone.
We move beyond fundraising consultation, helping your organization become holistically healthy in order to create — and then maximize and optimize — financial opportunities.
Clear Purpose: Cutting through the noise to determine who you are and what you do
Identity Branding
Strategic Funder Messaging
Theory of Change Development
How we partner
Financial Resilience: Maximizing and optimizing financial opportunities
Fractional Development Officer
Funding Prospect Research
Funding Readiness Review
Funding Outreach Roadmap
Grantwriting
Organizational Development: Equipping organizations & their leaders to embrace their full potential
Capacity Building
Lifecycles Assessment & Customized Plan
Leadership Confidence and Clarity
Who we partner with:
Osa Philanthropy partners with nonprofits and mission-driven businesses united by a commitment to positive social impact. While we appreciate the varied challenges for-profits face, we remain laser focused on their Corporate Social Responsibility, social enterprise, nonprofit arm, embedded social purpose, or social impact initiative. We work with every sector, geography and size.
Don’t wander through the wilderness alone.
Let us provide the trail map.
Schedule a 30 minute introductory call now to see how Osa Philanthropy can help your organization unlock its potential.
Our Impact:
Uplifting, Guiding, and Protecting Since 2015
$23M+Raised for social impact organizations around the globe
29Organizations Served including Skoll Award winners, Audacious Prize recipients, and Elevate Prize recipients
