Fund.
Resources that unlock the next step.
We help organizations identify and pursue the right funding opportunities with strategy, storytelling, and support.
Ascend Consulting
Important work shouldn't have to struggle to move forward.
We help mission-driven organizations secure funding, strengthen their organizations, and turn ambitious ideas into measurable impact.
Move the Mission Forward.
OUR WORK FUELS REAL CHANGE
Supporting non-profit leaders and government agencies to identify and implement strategies that increase visibility, capacity, revenue, and sustainability.
Ascend works alongside non-profit leaders and government agencies and their teams to identify and implement strategies that will increase capacity and advance their organizations, projects, and events to the next level.
$13M+
in grant funding secured for mission-driven agencies and nonprofits
~$2M
additional capital created for clients through marketing, development support, and fundraising events
20+
years of asset production experience — gatherings from 25 to 1,800+ attendees
Ascend Consulting
Move the
Mission Forward.
Important work deserves the power to move forward. Ascend helps organizations carry enormous missions and helps them become strong enough to carry them.
See How We PartnerHOW WE PARTNER
Fund. Strengthen. Move.
Three verbs. One direction. We lead with the friction of important work — then restore forward motion.
Strengthen.
Capacity leaders can actually carry.
Executive coaching, board assessment and training, and internal processes that help organizations manage growth, assess risk, and perform with clarity.
Move.
Visibility and settings that advance impact.
Messaging, marketing, and communications that sharpen your story, grow your audience, and deliver professional events that bring people together around what matters.
A partner in the work
We can figure this out.
Supporting non-profit leaders and government agencies to identify and implement strategies that increase visibility, capacity, revenue, and sustainability.
Since founding Ascend in 2009, Heather Caillier and her team have worked alongside nonprofit and government leaders — grant writers with 25+ years of collective experience, plus copywriters, designers, developers, and communications professionals who help organizations tell their story with dignity and move it forward.
The right strategy gives good people a greater reach.
In the room where it moves
Clarity, gatherings, and craft
Official photography and craft from Ascend’s direction — people with agency, work with substance. No stock. No pity aesthetic.
Next step
Where is the mission stuck?
Tell us what needs funding, what needs capacity, and what needs to move. We will help you find the path forward.