Building Community
One Campaign At A Time

Rose City Philanthropy is a nonprofit consulting firm specializing in leading nonprofits through capital campaigns, fundraising, healthcare and hospital philanthropy, Advancewell Analytics, and placemaking and public spaces.

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 goals. We provide assessment, planning, and coaching for sustainable solutions.

Healthcare Philanthropy

Counseling hospitals, health systems, and healthcare foundations to raise the resources they need to expand care and serve their communities. From urban to rural, we provide feasibility studies, campaign strategy, advanced donor analytics, and portfolio optimization that transforms data into clear, actionable fundraising plans. 

Advancewell Analytics

Campaign planning meets advanced analytics. We combine your institutional data with comprehensive wealth intelligence to score prospects, optimize portfolios, and model campaign scenarios with precision.

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

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Rose City Philanthropy offered credibility; the professionalism of Rose City Philanthropy made a very strong impression on the board.

Karen Cunningham

Curry Health Foundation

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It was an important maturation process for us. Rose City Philanthropy gave us that confidence. They looked at us with an independent lens and said, 'Yes, you can do this.'

Chris Bouneff

Executive Director

NAMI Oregon

Photo courtesy of Curry Health Foundation.

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

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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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