About Us

You want to do good. We’re here to help.

We’re a social impact consulting firm making it easier to create and scale impact – while working with a team you love and (dare we say it!) having fun.

After years working across organizations to drive impact, our leadership saw a gap: nonprofits missing innovative fundraising opportunities, companies with good intentions missing the mark, and at the same time – incredible talent frustrated and leaving the impact sector because of a lack of flexibility and growth.

That’s why we exist.

We build customized teams and offer on-demand experts to help nonprofits, companies, and philanthropists achieve their impact goals. Our flexible structure, diverse teams, and innovative approach sets us apart, both in our approach with partners, and creating a space for seasoned impact professionals to connect with a community while supporting partners they’re passionate about.

Our Leadership

Chief Executive Officer

Affiliations

AFP

Emerging Leaders Committee Member

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) represents nearly 31,000 members in more than 200 chapters throughout the world, working to advance philanthropy through advocacy, research, education, and certification programs. Founded in 1960 as the National Society of Fund Raisers, AFP fosters development and growth of fundraising professionals and promotes high ethical standards in the fundraising profession.

The New York City Chapter, the founding chapter of The Association of Fundraising Professionals, is a vital and unparalleled source of information and resources for the New York area — from workshops and informal networking opportunities to Fundraising Day in New York, the largest one-day conference in the world on philanthropic topics. We’re dedicated to supporting the uniquely American tradition of giving — and helping to make New York a better place.

NAACP

Next Gen Leader

The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.

The NAACP Next Generation Program (NEXTGEN) is a 12-month leadership development training program to be trained to assume leadership in the NAACP and in organizations around the world.

Nexus Global

Alumni/Delegate

NEXUS is a global community founded to bridge communities of wealth and social entrepreneurship. With over 6000 Members from 70 countries, we work to unite young investors, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and allies to catalyze new leadership and accelerate needed political, societal, indigenous, financial, environmental, and equal justice solutions.

Out Leadership

Alumni

Out Leadership convenes the most influential network of Out Leaders anywhere.

To accelerate LGBT+ talent, OutLeadership invite senior executives and emerging leaders to engage in leadership programs and curated events around the world. OutNEXT, OutWOMEN and Quorum are the only talent accelerators of their kind, elevating LGBT+ executives through our best-in-class network.Customize and support leadership trainings, professional development, team building activities, and other professional events

StartingBloc

Social Innovation Fellow

StartingBloc is an organization that educates, inspires, and connects emerging leaders, social entrepreneurs, activists, and innovators to drive social innovation across sectors. Since 2003, StartingBloc has helped social innovators address the most pressing global challenges of our time by giving fellows the education, inspiration and connections needed to create lasting change. The StartingBloc Fellowship exposes young leaders to new models for achieving social impact.

The Resolution Project

Resolution Leadership Council Member

Social Venture Mentor

Resolution was founded in 2007 to develop and empower young leaders so they can pursue socially responsible solutions to issues affecting communities around the world. We designed our Social Venture Challenge (“SVC”) to be an inspiring call to action for university students with an idea for a social venture and we created the Resolution Fellowship to be an ecosystem of support to help them implement their idea and develop as socially responsible leaders.

YBGB

Alumni

The mission of the Young, Black and Giving Back Institute (YBGB) is to educate, inspire, and empower young black professionals, influencers, social entrepreneurs, and activists to effectively invest in changing their communities through philanthropy.

We convene the nation’s most impactful young, black professionals and equip them with tools and resources for effective leadership. Our signature Changing The Face of Philanthropy Summit, digital engagement, and other programs prepare young, black professionals to act as leading voices for change through service, philanthropy and advocacy.

Chief Executive Officer

Brandon Parkes is an experienced CEO, Founder, and subject matter expert including strategic corporate philanthropy, diversity, equity and inclusion, board governance and multi-sector partnerships. He is a strategic advisor who brings broad leadership experience to mission-driven organizations and leaders. Leveraging over 9+ years of multi-industry operational experience within scaling organizations, he is recognized as a versatile social impact expert with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Brandon has a proven track record of innovating and implementing multi-disciplinary programs and partnerships that drive impact, while improving profits and creating shareholder value.

Brandon has demonstrated a strong prowess and affinity for communicating and building strong relationships due to his exceptional interpersonal skills, and intersectional identity which influences his ability to communicate and coordinate across a diverse portfolio of clients, departments and/or teams of an organization.

Brandon is concurrently the Head of Corporate Board Diversity Program at Gaingels, the largest venture capital syndicate in the world. He serves as a trusted Advisor to over 120+ private company CEO’s to help them better achieve their diversity and inclusion objectives. Previously, reporting directly to the CEO, he was an Executive Consultant at the nation’s largest black-owned fundraising firm, Bridge Philanthropic Consulting, in which he served as the principal liaison with key clients while leading client teams focused primarily on creating and implementing goal-oriented, efficient, capacity-building and fundraising strategies. Prior, he worked in a corporate philanthropic capacity as a Consultant at Morgan Stanley supporting executive corporate engagement for the firm’s global community affairs initiatives.

Through these professional titles, he gained experience supporting effective philanthropic strategy that increases social impact, external/internal engagement and nonprofit capacity building. He was humbled to be named one of CauseArtists’s “20 Inspiring African Americans Impacting the World Through Social Impact & Social Innovation,” named one of Startup Boost’s NYC 33 under 33, and has been featured in several publications such as Black Enterprise, Nasdaq and Blavity. It’s Brandon’s passion to empower any constituent looking to make a positive social impact.

Brandon has a proven track record of innovating and implementing multi-disciplinary programs and partnerships that drive impact, while improving profits and creating shareholder value.

Chief of Operations

Caitlin Kawaguchi has worked over the last seven years to catalyze impact across sectors with nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and companies.

Most recently, she was the Founding Director of Marketing & Partnerships at Bird + Stone, an impact e-commerce startup raising funds and inspiring action for causes and organizations, including the UN Foundation, She Should Run, and Amazon Watch.

In her previous role with Peacework, she managed cross-sector, shared-value initiatives for academic and corporate clients, including co-leading Project Belize, PwC’s flagship Corporate Social Responsibility program in partnership with Belize’s Ministry of Education. At Overture Global, she also coordinated impact activations with Fortune 500 companies and leading nonprofits.

In addition to her work in corporate impact, Caitlin also has extensive nonprofit experience, most recently advising on digital strategy for nonprofits and coalitions working on youth justice reform and opportunity youth policy issues with the Forum for Youth Investment.

Caitlin has lived and worked in Costa Rica, Belize, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Turkey, the UK, South Africa, and Myanmar. She is passionate about working with change agents across cultures and sectors to create sustainable impact.

Caitlin Kawaguchi has worked over the last seven years to catalyze impact across sectors with nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and companies.

Chief of Operations

Affiliations

Dreamers & Doers

First Tech Fund

Issroff Family Foundation

WeAreWISE Member, Board Training Alumni

WeAreWISE supports a community of dynamic professional women working in the social sector including women from historically marginalized groups and communities who are contributing to social impact to amplify their personal and professional development and networks.
IFF’s Board Training Program is a professional development opportunity intentionally designed to help participants understand the untapped value they can bring to a social sector board and provide them with the context, frameworks and hard skills essential to being an effective and engaged board member. It supports curious people eager to learn about serving on a board of a philanthropic organization or about how to better engage with the board on which they currently serve, either as a board member or as a CEO or Executive Director.

StartingBloc

Social Innovation Fellow

StartingBloc is an organization that educates, inspires, and connects emerging leaders, social entrepreneurs, activists, and innovators to drive social innovation across sectors. Since 2003, StartingBloc has helped social innovators address the most pressing global challenges of our time by giving fellows the education, inspiration and connections needed to create lasting change.

Meet Our Consultant team

Our Story

Brandon Parkes, Anna Fuselier, and Caitlin Kawaguchi launched Parkes Philanthropy to offer a new approach to impact consulting. Throughout our respective careers in corporate philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, we saw many organizations facing similar challenges around driving impact – and the power of collaboration when developing solutions.

Whether helping a philanthropist bring a new initiative to life or guiding a successful nonprofit through a period of growth, the ability to integrate multiple perspectives creates a powerful advantage. At the same time, we saw many nonprofits lacking financial capacity to hire large full-time teams, or emerging philanthropists lacking the network to source specialized experts for their interest areas.

That’s why we created Parkes Philanthropy. We wanted to create an easy way for anyone trying to make a difference – organizations, companies, and individuals – to access impact experts on demand.

Working with us gives you that powerful advantage of collaboration, without the headaches.

We design custom teams tailored to your needs, with the backing of our full consultant network. From designing and executing Global Employee Volunteerism initiatives at Morgan Stanley to leading events to raise over $1M at a NYC arts nonprofit, our consultants bring a wealth of expertise to engagements.

Since inception, Parkes Philanthropy has worked with celebrities like Hill Harper to launch innovative impact initiatives, supported nonprofits like Jackie Kennedy’s organization, Multiplying Good, and helped companies like Jump450 Media develop innovative Corporate Social Responsibility programs. You can learn more about our work through our Case Studies.

So if you’re looking to make an impact and think we might be a fit – reach out! We’d love to chat.

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