A full-systems diagnostic of strategy, operations, technology, and fundraising health — returned as a prioritized flight plan with the highest-leverage moves first.
- Strategy & operations review
- Technology & data assessment
- Prioritized roadmap
Consultancy — Arts & Nonprofit
Transform
your orbit.
Three systems decide whether a mission-driven organization gains altitude or burns fuel holding position: strategy, technology, and fundraising. We realign all three around what you're actually here to do.
02 / The approach
Passion was never
the problem.
You have the mission, the people, and the will. What's missing is alignment — between an ambitious strategy, the tools meant to carry it, and the fundraising that pays for all of it. When those three fall out of sync, capable organizations spend their energy holding things together instead of moving.
Orbit Transformation works at the controls with you — not from a report handed over at the door — until the trajectory holds and your team can keep it there.
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Stretched teams
Your best people wear six hats and apologize for the seventh.
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Fundraising on a treadmill
Every campaign resets to zero. The asking never compounds.
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No room to invest
Every dollar is spoken for, so “invest to grow” stays theoretical.
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Technology working against you
A CRM no one trusts and data scattered across nine logins.
03 / Services
Four engagements. Begin with one, or chart the full course — each is scaled to where you are now.
The money already within reach — lapsed donors, untapped grants, under-asked majors, leaky pipelines. We surface the opportunities and the plan to capture them.
- Donor & pipeline analysis
- Grant & revenue scan
- Quick-win action list
The deep work. We embed with your team to rebuild systems, modernize technology, and reset how the work gets done — change engineered to outlast the engagement.
- Systems & tech implementation
- Team enablement & training
- Change management
Capital campaign, year-end push, or a bold new initiative — we architect the strategy, case for support, goals, and timeline so you launch from strength.
- Strategy & case for support
- Goal-setting & feasibility
- Timeline & team roles
Some people learn fundraising. Erin has it in her DNA.
Over twenty years — eight of them deep in nonprofit arts and culture — Erin Lively Koppel has sat in nearly every seat: the late-night grant write, the nervous board meeting, the make-or-break year-end ask. She knows what stalls good organizations, and what finally gets them moving.
She founded Orbit Transformation for the leaders she kept meeting — brilliant, mission-driven, and worn down by systems quietly working against them. Her approach is warm but unsentimental: she'll celebrate your mission and tell you the truth about your pipeline in the same breath.
Connect on LinkedIn“I don't leave you with a binder. I leave you with momentum — and a team that knows exactly how to keep it.”
05 / Track record
20+Years of fundraising
8Years in arts & culture
3Systems realigned
100%Mission-driven clients
“She walked into an organization running on duct tape and walked us out with an actual system. The first year-end after, we beat goal — without anyone crying in the supply closet.”
06 / Contact
Let's plot
the course.
One conversation — no binder, no pressure. Tell us where you're stuck and we'll tell you honestly whether we can help, and how. If we're not the right fit, we'll point you to who is.
Direct — erin@orbittransformation.com