We’re a ‘sleeves rolled up’ kind of team.
Everything we do is focused on getting you back out into your community doing meaningful impact work. Whether it’s strategic planning, board development, or custom get-it-done workdays, we’re here to help.
For over 14 years, we’ve worked with hundreds of organizations to streamline their processes, plan into the future, and untangle tricky problems so they can keep creating impact.
Strategically approaching long-term growth
Through custom executive searches, in-depth development planning, and training on how to create successful fundraising campaigns or consulting businesses, we help organizations far exceed their capacity-building goals.
Broad buy-in for a new path forward
In a 2-day Strategic Planning power session, we brought together a disconnected team and created a clear, simply written Strategic Plan that will guide them for the next 3 years.
Team growth in capacity and skills
After a custom training session, a nonprofit’s team greatly improved their grant writing requests, resulting in better funding and higher efficiency.
Meet the Team
Mandy Pearce, CFRE | Owner
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In 2009, visionary, Mandy Pearce, founded her flagship company, Funding for Good, to equip organizations with all of the skills and tools needed to become successful and sustainable. She continues to enjoy evolving this company to meet the changing demands of the nonprofit world.
For over two decades, Mandy and her team of experts have shared their proficiency in fundraising through executive coaching, strategic and development planning, seminars and specialized consulting programs. Mandy’s dynamic teaching style has brought thousands of people to her presentations at conventions, training workshops and online platforms. Mandy established Funding for Good, Inc. upon the core values of honesty, efficiency, direct communication and bringing sustainable dollars to local communities.
Mandy lives in Hickory with her husband, Ricardo, and their two furbabies, Dalli and Max. She and Ricardo also own and operate a successful landscaping and custom woodworking company, Two Green Thumbs and More (twogreenthumbsandmore.com). On her days off, Mandy enjoys working in their garden, sipping sweet tea on their porch swing with a good magazine and cooking gourmet meals for their family and friends.
Mandy Pearce, CFRE |Owner
Mandy Pearce, CFRE | Owner
Contact: [email protected]
In 2009, visionary, Mandy Pearce, founded her flagship company, Funding for Good, to equip organizations with all of the skills and tools needed to become successful and sustainable. She continues to enjoy evolving this company to meet the changing demands of the nonprofit world.
For over two decades, Mandy and her team of experts have shared their proficiency in fundraising through executive coaching, strategic and development planning, seminars and specialized consulting programs. Mandy’s dynamic teaching style has brought thousands of people to her presentations at conventions, training workshops and online platforms. Mandy established Funding for Good, Inc. upon the core values of honesty, efficiency, direct communication and bringing sustainable dollars to local communities.
Mandy lives in Hickory with her husband, Ricardo, and their two furbabies, Dalli and Max. She and Ricardo also own and operate a successful landscaping and custom woodworking company, Two Green Thumbs and More (twogreenthumbsandmore.com). On her days off, Mandy enjoys working in their garden, sipping sweet tea on their porch swing with a good magazine and cooking gourmet meals for their family and friends.
Marie Palacios | Lead Consultant
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Marie Palacios, Lead Consultant for Funding for Good, is an expert facilitator, certified by The Institute of Cultural Affairs in the USA in evidence-based facilitation practices known as the ToP Method. She combines proven facilitation methods and her passion for community to facilitate dynamic and productive meetings. Marie enjoys facilitating community organizing, advocacy, consensus building, and action planning workshops for diverse organizations across the nation.
Over the past two decades, Marie has worn every hat imaginable in the nonprofit world: volunteer, board member, program director, executive director, and development consultant. Her nonprofit specialties include strategic planning facilitation, program design, board development, grant writing, and messaging.
Marie is bilingual and uses her Spanish skills to provide language access services for businesses and local government sectors, teach Spanish for Professional Courses, and coordinate missions in Latin America through her private consulting company, MP Pro Consult. Marie is a native of Morganton, NC where she lives with her husband and three children.
Marie Palacios | Lead Consultant
Marie Palacios | Lead Consultant
Contact: [email protected]
Marie Palacios, Lead Consultant for Funding for Good, is an expert facilitator, certified by The Institute of Cultural Affairs in the USA in evidence-based facilitation practices known as the ToP Method. She combines proven facilitation methods and her passion for community to facilitate dynamic and productive meetings. Marie enjoys facilitating community organizing, advocacy, consensus building, and action planning workshops for diverse organizations across the nation.
Over the past two decades, Marie has worn every hat imaginable in the nonprofit world: volunteer, board member, program director, executive director, and development consultant. Her nonprofit specialties include strategic planning facilitation, program design, board development, grant writing, and messaging.
Marie is bilingual and uses her Spanish skills to provide language access services for businesses and local government sectors, teach Spanish for Professional Courses, and coordinate missions in Latin America through her private consulting company, MP Pro Consult. Marie is a native of Morganton, NC where she lives with her husband and three children.
Amy Clinton | Consultant
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Amy Clinton is a nonprofit and public sector professional with more than 20 years experience in the grant research, writing, and management, program development, project management, strategic planning and group facilitation, and personnel psychology arenas. Prior to the formation of her nonprofit consulting practice, she led the grants department for one of the largest children’s behavioral health services organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina, netting the organization more than $1 million in grant revenue annually.
She graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Bachelor’s in Psychology and a minor in Human Development and from California State University, Sacramento with a Master’s in Psychology. She is a member of the North Carolina Chapter of the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) and a past president of the Western Region Intergovernmental Personnel Assessment Council. Originally from Sacramento, California, Amy currently lives in Denver, North Carolina with her husband Peter and their 5-year-old son, Gabriel.
Amy Clinton
Consultant
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Amy Clinton | Consultant
Contact: [email protected]
Amy Clinton is a nonprofit and public sector professional with more than 20 years experience in the grant research, writing, and management, program development, project management, strategic planning and group facilitation, and personnel psychology arenas. Prior to the formation of her nonprofit consulting practice, she led the grants department for one of the largest children’s behavioral health services organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina, netting the organization more than $1 million in grant revenue annually.
Carol Anne | Master of All Things Design, Marketing & Photography
Carol Anne Hartman is the owner of Carol Anne Hartman Design & Photography, LLC, a multi-media advertising, and marketing group that serves North Carolina small businesses as well as nationwide companies. As a photographer, she offers commercial and personal services, but her specialty is entertainers: actors, musicians and dancers. Actors have been known to drive great distances to use Carol Anne for their headshot photographer.
Carol Anne
Design, Marketing & Photography
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Carol Anne | Master of All Things Design, Marketing & Photography
Carol Anne Hartman is the owner of Carol Anne Hartman Design & Photography, LLC, a multi-media advertising, and marketing group that serves North Carolina small businesses as well as nationwide companies. As a photographer, she offers commercial and personal services, but her specialty is entertainers: actors, musicians and dancers. Actors have been known to drive great distances to use Carol Anne for their headshot photographer.
Camellia Phillips | Consultant
Camellia Phillips is a writer at heart. With 20 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising and operations, today she helps nonprofits and mission-driven for-profit organizations tell their stories in the most compelling way possible. Whether it’s driving search traffic with sharp and insightful web copy, crafting irresistible articles and newsletters, or developing winning grant proposals, her priority is making my clients’ work shine. In 2019, she was selected as a 92Y Women inPower Fellow, a program for rising women leaders in New York City.
Camellia Phillips
Consultant
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Camellia PHillips | Consultant
Camellia Phillips is a writer at heart. With 20 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising and operations, today she helps nonprofits and mission-driven for-profit organizations tell their stories in the most compelling way possible. Whether it’s driving search traffic with sharp and insightful web copy, crafting irresistible articles and newsletters, or developing winning grant proposals, her priority is making my clients’ work shine. In 2019, she was selected as a 92Y Women inPower Fellow, a program for rising women leaders in New York City.
Anne Schmidt | Creative and Web Design
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Anne is the founder of Blu Design Shop, a creative design agency that makes the overwhelming and often complex process of designing a visual brand or website, simple. She has over 10 years of experience in graphic and web design and has won awards for her winning sense of customer service, for being a team player, and for going above and beyond. She loves working with start-up companies, small businesses and entrepreneurs, locally and nationally, as well as lending her talents to the team at Funding for Good.
Anne Schmidt
Creative and Web Design
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Anne Schmidt | Creative and Web Design
Contact: [email protected]
Anne is the founder of NJ Web Creative, a creative design agency that makes the overwhelming and often complex process of designing a visual brand or website, simple. She has over 14 years of experience in graphic and web design and has won awards for her winning sense of customer service, for being a team player, and for going above and beyond. She loves working with start-up companies, small businesses and entrepreneurs, locally and nationally, as well as lending her talents to the team at Funding for Good.
Dalli Blue | Office Security
Dalli Blue was found on the streets of Dallas, TX with her two siblings by Duck Team 6 Street Dog Rescue and Sacred Paws Rescue in the summer of 2016. Mandy and Ricardo saw Dalli’s photo online the day she was rescued and knew she was the next member of their family.
An amazing foster family kept Dalli in Dallas until Mandy and Ricardo could drive to pick her up on their honeymoon that Fall. Dalli was five months old when she drove across the country to her forever home in Hickory, NC. Her name comes from Dallas, the city where she was born, and her mother, Lady Blue. She is loving, sweet, energetic, and a great addition to the family.
Dalli Blue
Office Security
Dalli Blue | Office Security
Dalli Blue was found on the streets of Dallas, TX with her two siblings by Duck Team 6 Street Dog Rescue and Sacred Paws Rescue in the summer of 2016. Mandy and Ricardo saw Dalli’s photo online the day she was rescued and knew she was the next member of their family.
An amazing foster family kept Dalli in Dallas until Mandy and Ricardo could drive to pick her up on their honeymoon that Fall. Dalli was five months old when she drove across the country to her forever home in Hickory, NC. Her name comes from Dallas, the city where she was born, and her mother, Lady Blue. She is loving, sweet, energetic, and a great addition to the family.
Maximus (Max) | Security in Training
Maximus (Max) was born in Virginia in November, 2020. He came to join our family in NC in early January 2021. Maximus was named after a gladiator, much like his older brother Leonidas, and he is living up to his name daily. Max is a sweet boy that loves to play with his big sister, chase balls in the yard, meet new dog friends, and explore as many places as his humans will take him. Max is learning all about being a great security dog from Dalli, who he looks up to for everything.
We are blessed to have Max as part of our family and look forward to many adventures as a pack.
Maximus (Max)
Security in Training
Maximus (AKA Max) | Security in Training
Maximus (Max) was born in Virginia in November, 2020. He came to join our family in NC in early January 2021. Maximus was named after a gladiator, much like his older brother Leonidas, and he is living up to his name daily. Max is a sweet boy that loves to play with his big sister, chase balls in the yard, meet new dog friends, and explore as many places as his humans will take him. Max is learning all about being a great security dog from Dalli, who he looks up to for everything.
We are blessed to have Max as part of our family and look forward to many adventures as a pack.
Leo | His spirit motivates us daily
Leo was found on the side of the road, paralyzed and bleeding on a mound of melting snow over ten years ago. After some help getting him in the car, Mandy drove 30 minutes to the closest vet. The emergency vet did not think he would make it. After many days on IV fluids and medicine, Leo was still unable to walk.
The day Mandy went to put him down, he stood briefly and took a step. This small act of strength told Mandy all she needed to know about his character and determination to live. Mandy drove an hour each way to do therapy with Leo until he was strong enough to leave the emergency vet and come home with her. Leo grew into a strong, happy, healthy, loving constant companion. Leo traveled with Mandy and her husband Ricardo all of his years. Leo crossed the Rainbow Bridge in Sept. 2020 and is missed daily. His spirit is with Mandy and her family and lives on in their hearts. He may be gone, but he is never forgotten.
Leo
His Spirit Motivates Us Daily
Leo | His spirit motivates us daily
Leo was found on the side of the road, paralyzed and bleeding on a mound of melting snow over ten years ago. After some help getting him in the car, Mandy drove 30 minutes to the closest vet. The emergency vet did not think he would make it. After many days on IV fluids and medicine, Leo was still unable to walk.
The day Mandy went to put him down, he stood briefly and took a step. This small act of strength told Mandy all she needed to know about his character and determination to live. Mandy drove an hour each way to do therapy with Leo until he was strong enough to leave the emergency vet and come home with her. Leo grew into a strong, happy, healthy, loving constant companion. Leo traveled with Mandy and her husband Ricardo all of his years. Leo crossed the Rainbow Bridge in Sept. 2020 and is missed daily. His spirit is with Mandy and her family and lives on in their hearts. He may be gone, but he is never forgotten.
