Collaborations

Collaborating for Impact

Our work is most powerful when we partner toward a shared goal. We bring together nonprofits, community leaders, networks, funders, and investors to fuel solutions shaped by and for communities.

How We Collaborate

Maximizing Impact Investments

Our fund management experts work with impact investors to deploy capital into community-centered loan funds that grow local wealth, build resilience, and advance equitable outcomes.

When nonprofits face funding gaps, we design responsive loan funds with community, philanthropic, and public sector partners to meet urgent and long-term capital needs.

We listen deeply to tailor our consulting engagements to our clients’ goals and realities. Trust and responsiveness are the cornerstone of how we work.

Working with others, we raise up the challenges facing nonprofits, conduct essential primary research, and advocate for solutions that empower robust nonprofits to best serve communities.

Innovative Approaches to Complex Challenges

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Building Cross-sector Collaborations

NFF collaborates with funders, peers, coalitions, and networks driving systemic change, leveraging our expertise to align strategies and amplify collective impact.

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Aligning Funders’ Goals with Nonprofit Needs

We help funders strengthen the nonprofit sector by aligning grantmaking with actual needs – including full cost funding and flexible operating support.

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Partnering to Deploy Diverse Capital Tools

We connect nonprofits to a range of capital – from grants and donor-advised funds to impact loans and recoverable grants – matching the right tools to community goals.

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Let’s unlock capital, co-create solutions, and expand impact – together.

Funders & Investors

Explore how NFF works with funders and investors to design consulting services and capital programs that strengthen nonprofits and communities.

Highlights