OBSIDIAN EDGE
Our Services
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We coach with care and clarity. Whether you’re an emerging leader, seasoned executive, or team navigating transition, our coaching holds space for complexity. Grounded in somatics, spirit, community organizing, and strategy, we support leaders in moving from performance to purpose.
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Resource work is spiritual work. We build fundraising and resource-mobilization strategies rooted in trust, reciprocity, relationship, and abundance—not scarcity or survival.
Our work includes grant writing, donor communications, fundraising strategy, philanthropic engagement, and connections to aligned networks and resources. We have helped raise and align more than $10 million in support of climate, environmental justice, housing, sustainability, and community development initiatives.
We have also helped anchor pooled philanthropic funds, partnered with funders on strategy, and supported shared practices that move resources more equitably through principles of regenerative economics, community stewardship, and long-term relationship building.
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Conflict is sacred when handled with care. We facilitate spaces for healing, restoration, and transformation, not avoidance. Conflict avoidance is not creating harmony or is it step toward our healing journey. Drawing from somatics, African spiritual traditions, and movement wisdom, we support organizations in navigating rupture and returning to right relationship.
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We design gatherings that feed the soul and sharpen the vision. Whether strategic retreats, trainings, or internal convenings, we create containers rooted in justice, spiritual grounding, and collective clarity. When we gather with intention, we shift what's possible.
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Equity isn't a checkbox, it's a living practice. Humanity and human values form a critical ecosystem, much like nature itself. We offer assessments, trainings, and deep structural work to shift how power moves within your organization. We don't just analyze bias; we hold people accountable to it, co-designing cultures where justice is embodied at every level.
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We treat evaluation as ritual. Our assessments are not just metrics, they’re mirrors. We help you measure what matters: alignment, impact, and healing. Through a culturally rooted and data-informed process, we surface equity gaps, movement tensions, and opportunities for transformation. The goal: strategic clarity with soul.
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Your structure reflects your spirit. Whether building out nonprofit governance (C3/C4), shifting internal culture, business incubation, or evolving leadership flow, we help you root your systems in justice. Designed for mighty teams with lean capacity, we offer tools to elevate collective rhythm, trust, and long-term sustainability.
Our Impact
75+ Foundations & 75+ NonProfit and Businesses
Partnered with over 175 mission-aligned organizations advancing equity, gender justice, sustainability, climate, housing, and economic justice and social impact
Provided strategic support across the U.S., Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Barbados, and Brazil, rooted in local leadership, business and global solidarity.
Global Reach
Guided frontline leaders working at the intersections of climate, economic justice, environmental sustainability, housing, social justice, gender justice, food sovereignty, business, cooperative development, and political education.
Intersectional Impact
SELECTED CLIENTS AND PARTNERS
Foundations
Allegany Franciscan Ministries
Amplify Fund
Annie E. Casey Foundation
California Community Foundation
Chicago Community Trust
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
Crossroads Fund
East Bay Community Foundation
Field Foundation
Ford Foundation
Fund for Democratic Communities
Fund for an Inclusive California
Grand Victoria Foundation
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
Knight Foundation
LIFT Fund
MacArthur Foundation
Marguerite Casey Foundation
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Neighborhood Funders Group
Open Society Foundations
Polk Bros. Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
San Francisco Foundation
Surdna Foundation
The California Endowment
The Heinz Endowments
The Kresge Foundation
The McKnight Foundation
The Solutions Project
Woods Fund Chicago Amalgamated Bank
Beneficial State Foundation
Community-Based Organizations, Labor & Public Sector
Artisan Hub
Asian Pacific Environment Network
Black Professionals in International Affairs
California Air Resources Board
California Environmental Justice Alliance
Center for Social Inclusion
City of Oakland City of Richmond
Civic Well Let’s Be Whole Local Government Commission
Climate Justice Alliance
Communities for a Better Environment
Council of African Youth Advocates (Board Member)
Diasporadical Initiative
EcoAdapt
Global Exchange
Grassroots Global Justice
Indigenous Environmental Network
Marin Clean Energy
National Adaptation Forum
Occidental College
Rainforest Action Network
Right to the City
Royal African Company (Board Member)
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Skylink Agro Solutions Limited (Board Member)
The Urban Institute
United Auto Workers
University of California, Berkeley
Urban Habitat
Village of Wisdom
Working Partnerships USA
Our Journey Together
Starts Here.