"By investing in leaders, organizations, and networks, we help create more powerful and impactful fields and movements."

-David and Lucile Packard Foundation

About Fuel Nonprofits.Org

We seek to inspire a positive, encouraging narrative about the power of fueling nonprofits and other initiatives working to achieve social good. Most private donors presume that making sure that as much money as possible goes toward programs as possible is the golden rule. This site provides a plethora of resources and links to inform these donors that this is only one perspective - and not one held by many professional philanthropists and foundation leaders. Our site provides information to help donors seeking to learn more about fueling nonprofits by providing capacity and operational support

Our Stories

Our provide exceptional stories to demonstrate that the impact that can be achieved by providing capacity or operational grants can be enormous. Some keys to increasing our "batting average" includes choosing the right nonprofits at the right time. We discuss this and more through our quick tutorials and other resources on our site.

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Our History

We envision a world where millions of private and institutional donors understand the value of fueling nonprofits to achieve maximum impact. We cannot do this alone. We seek your help to write articles in local papers, pass along information through social media and make donations if possible. Help the world of funders understand that sometimes even small grants can achieve the impact multiplier effect.

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Volunteers

This effort began in September 2021 with meetings with large philanthropy support organizations (PSOs) including GivingTuesday, TechSoup, and WINGS. Since then we established a broad initiative with active interest among twenty PSOs. Additionally FuelNonprofits.Org has completed its 3rd generation of quick tutorials and site reconstruction. We work with volunteers to help us spread our message.

Meet Our Team

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Peter Brach

Manager of Funders 2025 Fund

Peter Brach

Peter Brach is a passionate advocate for providing people, organizations, communities, and ecosystems with the capacity support needed to achieve new levels of impact. He has served as a trustee and grantee for a private family foundation since 2014. He has managed the Funders 2025 Fund since 2019 – a future-focused DAF dedicated to achieving exceptional meta-level impact by supporting far-reaching umbrella organizations. Peter has provided consulting support to the SDG Philanthropy Platform, and Worldwide Initiative of Grantmaker Support (WINGS).

In September 2020, Peter and his team at Creative Visions Foundation began building the Invest in People Hub. Included are short stories where relatively small amounts of funding achieved exceptional impact. From September to the present, he’s also convened umbrella organizations to explore approaches for inspiring a new narrative around the critical role they play within philanthropy. Organizations convened include representatives from the Council of Nonprofits, Council of Foundations, WINGS, GivingTuesday, TechSoup, Giving Compass, Southern California Grantmakers, and New England International Donors.

In November 2020, GivingTuesday published Peter’s blog post, Strengthening the People on the Frontlines of Change. In February 2021, Peter’s article, One Funder’s Reasons for Supporting Umbrella Organizations, appeared in WINGS’ newsletter. During the same month, Peter’s similar article, Why I Fund Philanthropy Support Organizations, was published by Alliance Magazine. In May of 2021, he published his second edition of an online mini course to provide donors with a lay-of-the-land understanding about investing in people and nonprofit capacity-building. In addition to philanthropy, Peter loves people, good discussions, music, interesting movies, and engaging in regular meditative prayer practices.

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Kathy Eldon

Founder of Creative Visions

Kathy Eldon

Kathy Eldon has worked as a teacher, journalist, author and film and television producer in England, Kenya and the United States. In 1990, Kathy founded Creative Visions Productions to produce entertaining, impact media. Kathy has exec-produced eight award-winning films, including a three-part PBS series, Global Tribe, about grassroots social entrepreneurs, an Oprah Winfrey Network Special, Extraordinary Moms, featuring Hilary Clinton, Julia Roberts, Christiane Amanpour, and a CNN special, Soldiers of Peace, a Children’s Crusade. Together with Kweku Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, Kathy produced The Journey is the Destination, a feature film (now on Netflix), based on the life of her son, Dan, a 22-year-old photojournalist killed in Somalia while working for Reuters News Agency.

Kathy is the founder of Creative Visions, a non-profit recognized as a UN NGO (non-governmental organization that has impacted more than 100 million people. Since 2004, Creative Visions has supported more than 400 projects and productions globally by creative activists who use the power of media and the arts to trigger awareness of critical issues and catalyze positive change. Kathy is the author of 17 books, including Hope Rising, A Musing, published in 2021, and her memoir, In the Heart of Life, published by HarperOne. A popular speaker, Kathy has been featured on countless television and radio programs globally, including several appearances on Oprah. Kathy lives in Malibu with her husband, Michael Bedner, a few steps away from the Dan Eldon Center for Creative Activism, a vibrant hub for individuals who want to help change the world for the better.

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Pat Chandler

CEO of Creative Visions

Pat Chandler

Pat Chandler has been CEO of Creative Visions for six years and brings more than 25 years of business, marketing and media management experience and expertise to the organization. She came to Creative Visions from Points of Light where she served on the executive team for eight years holding positions as SVP of Marketing and Corporate Partnerships, Chief External Affairs Officer and Senior Advisor to the CEO. Points of Light was the largest volunteer management organization in the world and had a mission to inspire, equip and mobilize people to take action that changes the world.

Prior to her tenure with Points of Light, she was Chief Operating Officer of SWI Consulting, Inc., a company that specialized in managing and activating the philanthropy and social influence of athletes and entertainers. Chandler also served in leadership roles with the Home Depot for 5 years, including as President of the Home Depot Foundation and head of Community Affairs. In these roles, she managed and designed the company’s corporate social responsibility, civic engagement and philanthropy programs.

She served as President and CEO of Chandler Communications, a full-service marketing and public relations firm headquartered in Seattle, for nearly 10 years and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington, Bastyr University and Seattle Community College’s Center for Business Development where she taught marketing and public relations courses.

Early in her career she also worked in the media as a television producer and print journalist and was managing editor of the True Citizen, a weekly newspaper in Tacoma, Washington.

She is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington and holds degrees in Political Science and Urban Planning.

News

Gates Foundation adds four trustees to its board
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2 March 2022
Alliance magazine

Many leaders in philanthropy support organizations (PSOs) believe that nonprofits could achieve a consi-derably greater impact if they received sufficient

Analysis

Legal Empowerment Fund launches open call for proposals
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7 March 2022
Rhodri Davies

Many leaders in philanthropy support organizations (PSOs) believe that nonprofits could achieve a consi-derably greater impact if they received sufficient

Analysis

Gates Foundation adds four trustees to its board
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7 March 2022
Alliance magazine

Many leaders in philanthropy support organizations (PSOs) believe that nonprofits could achieve a consi-derably greater impact if they received sufficient

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