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At Funding for Good, your growth is our mission.
We help nonprofits, small and medium-sized businesses, and independent consultants set bold goals—and design actionable strategies to achieve them.
Drawing on our team’s decades of cross-sector experience, we provide the tools, training, resources, and customized support you need to succeed.
50,000+
50,000+ nonprofit leaders, board members, and fundraisers trained
10,000+
10,000+ nonprofit organizations and small businesses served
2,000+
2,000+ nonprofit consultants in our community
20+
20+ years building strong organizations
Meet Mandy Pearce,
Founder and CEO of Funding for Good
Since 2009, Funding for Good has empowered thousands of nonprofits, small businesses, and nonprofit consultants to grow with purpose.
From strategic planning to fundraising to business development, we partner with hundreds of leaders each year to turn bold visions into reality.
We’ve come a long way from our early days. What began with grants training, research, and proposal writing has grown into a dynamic suite of coaching and consulting services. Brick-by-brick, organization-by-organization, we’ve expanded our team and our impact—always with our core values of sustainability, efficiency, honesty, and direct communication at the core.
- RBy coaching and mentoring nonprofit consultants, we’re strengthening the support system for nonprofits nationwide—and helping consultants build thriving businesses.
- RThrough strategic planning, we help business and nonprofit leaders set ambitious goals and build buy-in across their teams.
- RWith development training and coaching, we guide organizations to consistently meet—and exceed—their fundraising goals.
- RFrom board services to a vault of proven resources, we equip nonprofits and small businesses with the tools to build sustainable and impactful organizations.
We’re here for your growth.
I love Mandy’s no-nonsense style. I didn’t need someone affirming my every wrong/ineffective decision. I needed someone with a solid track record of success who could be both supportive and honest.
Mandy’s knowledge base is extensive, including strategic planning, board development, major gifts, campaigns, legacy planning, grant research, and prospect development. If you’re looking for an interactive consultant for online training or individual consulting, Mandy will help drive success and provide your team with many ‘ah-ha’ moments.
Meet the Team
Renowned for her no-nonsense approach and laser-sharp insights, Mandy has trained and coached thousands through high-impact workshops, webinars, and one-on-one programs. Whether she’s guiding a nonprofit through a major transition or mentoring a consultant to grow their business, Mandy brings clarity, strategy, and a contagious energy to every engagement.
Since founding Funding for Good in 2009, Mandy has built a highly skilled team of consultants dedicated to helping nonprofits, businesses, and other consultants grow with intention—and without burnout.
Mandy lives in Hickory, North Carolina, with her husband, Ricardo, and their two furbabies, Dalli and Max. When she’s not helping clients achieve their goals, you can find Mandy writing about life-work balance, working in the garden, sipping sweet tea on the porch swing, and cooking gourmet meals for family and friends.
Marie Palacios, Lead Consultant for Funding for Good, is an expert educator, consultant, and facilitator who helps leaders achieve their goals.
She combines evidence-based facilitation methods and two decades of professional experience to facilitate dynamic and productive meetings. Her specialties include consensus building, leadership development, and strategic planning for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
Over the past two decades, Marie has worn every hat imaginable in the business world: volunteer, board member, program director, executive director, and development consultant.
Marie is a native of Morganton, NC, where she lives with her husband, three daughters, and one spoiled rescue dog named “Mako.”
Kim Collier
Grants Team Lead
team@fundingforgood.org
Kim Collier is a fundraising consultant, educator, and leading grants expert with more than 20 years of experience creating and building thriving grants programs. She has used her passion for “all things grants” to secure $36+ million in awards from federal, state, local, and private grant makers. Kim provides direct services to nonprofits in areas such as grant readiness and nonprofit wellness assessments, strategic planning, program design, prospect research, grant writing/editing, and grants management. A teacher at heart, she loves equipping clients with knowledge, skills, tools, and systems to successfully acquire and effectively manage government and private grant funding. Kim holds a Master of Nonprofit Management, M.A. in Communications, and a B.S. in English Education.
Camellia Phillips
SEO Strategies & Market Research Lead
team@fundingforgood.org
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.
Robin Callahan, CFRE, CAP®, CEFL
Strategy Consultant
robin@thecallahancollaborative.com
For more than 25 years Robin has served in a variety of nonprofit staff and volunteer roles which have provided her with unique insights, and a wide array of tools and resources to help nonprofits and their leaders thrive. She pulls from a wealth of professional experiences and successes in K-12 philanthropy, national association management, and community foundations, to facilitate consensus-based conversations and strategic planning including training in TOP Facilitation and Strategic Planning. She lives on the Puget Sound and serves as a board member of AFP Southsound, the South Sound Planned Giving Council, the Rotary Club of Gig Harbor and Wellspring Family Services.
Amy Clinton
Consultant
team@fundingforgood.org
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
Design, Marketing & Photography
team@fundingforgood.org
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.
Anne Schmidt
Creative and Web Design
anne@brandlaunchstudio.co
Anne is the founder of Brand Launch Studio, a creative design agency that makes the overwhelming and often complex process of designing a visual brand or website, simple. She has over 16 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.
Maximus (Max)
Security Team, 2nd in Charge
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.