ABOUT & CLIENTS
Tangible Results, True Partnership
Curate.org partners closely with a select group of clients, embedding within their teams to support fundraising, funding, communications, and strategy work. We believe in working directly alongside clients to lighten their load and build connections between legacy and new funders across generations. Offering expertise in program development, fundraising, philanthropy, capital campaigns (including new facilities), communications, and more, we focus on improving organizational growth, philanthropic strategies, and impact.
With over 15 years in business, Curate.org has helped clients raise over $50 million while assisting foundations in directing additional millions to those to deserve it most. Our past clients include powerful organizations such as the Intel Foundation, Nike Foundation, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Prince William Sound Science Center, Children’s Cancer Association, Ecotrust, Wild Salmon Center, and many more. Above all, we aim to create meaningful, long-lasting relationships, not just results.
What We Do
Scalable Solutions for Growing Impact
Change Management
Leadership + Board Consulting
Org Strategy + Design
Fundraising + Campaigns
Facilitation + Research
Strategic outreach + Branding
Impact Assessment + Writing
Foundation + Philanthropy Services
Strategic Communications + Film
OUR APPROACH
LESS MONEY, MORE AUTHENTICITY
By embedding within your existing leadership or project team, we bring a collaborative and flexible point-of-view to your creative output; this allow us to focus on results, affordable pricing, and flexibly scaling our work (up or down) in ways appropriate to your budget, process, and goals.
Who We Work With
Working Together for Collective Change
Foundations
Nonprofits
Universities
Public Agencies
Backbone Organizations
State + Federal Gov.
Independent Businesses
Mission-Driven For-Profits
Coalitions
OUR CHANGEMAKER CLIENTS
OUR TEAM
Partners for Progress
Nonprofit directors. Foundation officers. Corporate executives. Creative directors. Writers. Public relations professionals. Fundraisers. Evaluation specialists. Economists. Filmmakers. Programmers. Crazy-talented designers who'll stay up all night to get the job right. Our team is experienced in a variety of sectors, diverse, full of hustle and heart, disciplined, and committed to making sure your results are better after partnering with us. We do this work because we're committed to change, and we price it all affordably because we care.
Seth Walker
Founder + Principal
Seth has a long history of partnering with changemakers to turn their great social innovations into big impact. He has 20+ years of successful in-house social-change leadership experience across several sectors, including Fortune 50 (Intel), higher ed (University of Oregon), nonprofit (Ecotrust), and private/family foundation (Russell Family Foundation) work, as well as consulting experience with more than 50 nonprofits, for-profits, foundations & universities. His duties include strategic coaching, board/staff strategy, capacity + budget planning, fundraising, writing, project management, and internal cultural assessment / staff planning, to name a few.
Active Culture
Design + Brand + Film + Web + Social + Programming + Business Strategy
For more than 8 years, Curate and Active Culture have partnered on creative, brand, film and outreach strategy on behalf of mission-driven clients all over the country. When you bring stories to Active Culture, they bring the related business ideas and breakthrough creative. Active Culture is based in Portland, Oregon and that tells creative stories via creative solutions in brand identity, website design, and video production.
Victory
Design + Brand + Film + Web + Social + Programming + Strategy + Events
Victory, based in Vancouver, B.C. (with offices in LA, NYC and more), is a driven creative agency fueled by heart, hustle and relentless storytelling. Curate and Victory have worked together for years on projects ranging from TEDxPortland to Sprint’s 1Million Project. Victory builds long-term, strategic partnerships. They serve. They run a tight ship and absolutely love what they do. They produce stunning websites and design that move the needle. Their staff aligns with projects in a very deep and real way, and they own and operate nonprofits as well. They care about the greater good and are excited to partner on each and every project.
Sarah Kruse, PhD
Economist
Sarah is an environmental and natural resource economist with over 12 years of experience in research, analysis, and project implementation. Her recent work spans water market assessments in the Deschutes and Klamath Basins, forest treatment valuation in the Rio Grande, watershed valuation in California's Sierra Nevada, and dam analysis in the Mekong River Basin. She has worked with consulting and nonprofit organizations, focusing on analytical methods and research exploring the links between environmental and socioeconomic systems.
Sona Pai
Writer
Sona has more than a decade helping clients at organizations big and small find their authentic stories, articulate them clearly, and tell them in ways that resonate. Her specialties include: editorial strategy, thought leadership, developmental editing, writer coaching, and writing. Her focus areas include: brand storytelling, custom publications, reports + white papers, case studies + profiles, feature articles + essays.
ORS Impact
Strategy + Evaluation
Why do you do what you do? And how will it make a difference? These deceptively simple questions get to the heart of the ORS Impact Theory of Change—the discipline of mapping how activities link to strategies, to outcomes, and to your vision of a world made better by your work. ORS Impact works with a wide range of philanthropic, nonprofit, and government clients, helping each to clarify, measure, and align around their social impact outcomes, as well as stay accountable to success and learn along the way.