Work

Since starting this practice in January 2022, I've taken on seventeen consulting engagements across Canadian democracy, Canadian climate, environmental philanthropy, international human rights, land conservation, UN policy, and adjacent civil-society sectors. Listed below in reverse chronological order. Three signature engagements are set out at length on the home page.

Selected engagements, 2022–2026

2025–present Apathy is Boring Canadian democracy

Advisory retainer on sustainable funding models for the Canadian democracy sector, exploring the democracy endowment concept surfaced during the Canadian Democracy Coalition listening exercise.
2025–2026 New Majority Canadian democracy

The Case for a Canadian Democracy Coalition — seven-month sector listening exercise with 58 organizations, public evidence base, and interactive Atlas. Funded by the Catherine Donnelly Foundation and the Euphrosine Foundation.
2025–2026 Georgian Bay Land Trust Land conservation and Indigenous-led stewardship

Foundation stress-test and multi-lane strategy selection for GBLT, including a planning grant proposal for Indigenous-led co-stewardship with Shawanaga First Nation.
2024–2026 Environment Funders Canada Environmental philanthropy

Growing the Environmental Philanthropy Pie — multi-phase research and fundraising-vehicle design, with an 8,503-respondent national survey, HNW donor research with KCI, and new-vehicle modelling. Final synthesis due May 2026.
2024 The Children's Hour Foundation International children and youth philanthropy

Global listening exercise and five-year strategy for making Children's Day a global cultural moment, with a Children & Youth Advisory Board structure modelled on UN and UNICEF guidelines.
2024 Centre for CleanAI AI and climate tech

Advisory on founding partners and Summit sponsorship for the Centre for CleanAI, including the October 2024 CleanAI Summit.
2024 Clean Economy Fund Canadian climate philanthropy

Measuring the Impact of Climate Philanthropy — research with seven major foundations on impact measurement and donor recognition, delivered alongside a menu of donor recognition options that informed CEF's November 2024 donor event.
2023–present Foundation for Environmental Stewardship Climate / youth environmental charity

Lead fundraising strategy for FES's $25M capital campaign. The organization engaged me in 2023 as its fundraising strategist; I founded FES in 2009.
2023–2024 Edmonton Community Foundation Canadian municipal climate

National Municipal Climate Action Accelerator — sector scoping, coalition building, and $900K fundraising from six Canadian funders.
2023–2024 Climate Caucus Council Municipal climate and government relations

Federal government-relations retainer for a network of 490+ local elected climate leaders; federal submission on Climate Staff Positions for Smaller Communities delivered October 2022.
2023 UN Office of the Special Envoy on Youth / UN Youth Office International governance

Lead drafter, UN Secretary-General's Policy Brief 3 on Meaningful Youth Engagement in Policy and Decision-making Processes, published April 2023 as part of Our Common Agenda.
2022–2023 Foundation for Environmental Stewardship / Carbon for Ranchers coalition Agriculture and grasslands conservation

Grasslands Policy Framework for a stakeholder coalition of Canadian Cattlemen's Association, Farmers for Climate Solutions, NFU, and others; draft AGRI Committee Report and federal briefing support.
2022–2025 HanVoice Human rights

Multi-year engagement to stand up an alternative international human rights fund for North Korean refugees. The Global Fund Initiative that resulted from this work drew more than USD $30M in pledges from six national governments, UN agencies, Human Rights Watch, and other funders during 2023–2024. Most of those pledges were withdrawn after the US policy shift in early 2025, which closed the National Endowment for Democracy and State Department funding streams that had underpinned the international donor base. HanVoice subsequently spun the surviving programmatic work into Kin Impact Fund, which continues the Canadian-led portion of the original design. A clear example of both the method working at international scale and the limits of what method alone can protect against when geopolitics changes the funding landscape.
2022 Sustainability Network Canadian environmental nonprofit infrastructure

Compressed synthesis of a sector-wide Vision 2030 event: 34 flip-chart pages from a June 2022 convening synthesized into a ten-page summary report with forward-looking recommendations.
2022 Toronto District School Board K–12 education and municipal climate

Youth Climate Action Projects Manual — scoped toolkit of project templates to turn TransformTO youth grants into GHG-reducing actions. Proposal stage.
2022 GreenPAC Environment and democracy

Sector listening exercise for an environmental-political advocacy organization; resulting Listening Exercise Report 2022 delivered to the GreenPAC board and leadership.
2022 Environment and Climate Change Canada Government / environment

Short honorarium engagement.