Strong Missions Need Stable Funding
Embedded fundraising leadership and strategic advising for nonprofits and public sector organizations.
A Dedicated Fundraising Leader
Without the Full-Time Burden
For many nonprofit leaders, fundraising competes with every other responsibility. Harvey & Smith Impact embeds an experienced fundraising leader directly into your organization to manage donor engagement, campaign planning, and grant strategy.
This embedded model provides consistent leadership and execution without the cost or complexity of a full-time hire. Fundraising becomes structured, intentional, and sustainable, allowing you to stay focused on programs, people, and long-term impact.
The Bookshelf by Harvey & Smith Impact
Books that move power, shift culture, and spark change.
This is not just a bookstore. It’s a curated collection for changemakers, nonprofit leaders, educators, and cultural organizers who use knowledge as a tool for justice. Each title is handpicked to sharpen your strategy, deepen your values, and spark bold action. Every purchase funds our Microgrant Program, directly supporting grassroots groups and local changemakers across New York and New England.
Why This Book Matters
The Four Pivots invites readers to rethink justice work by focusing on healing, joy, and shared humanity. Shawn A. Ginwright offers a compelling argument that social change must begin with inner transformation and community care. His approach disrupts dominant leadership models and offers a path rooted in love and sustainability.
For nonprofit executives, movement leaders, and teams facing burnout or transition, this book offers both clarity and compassion.
Use it to guide reflection, embed wellness into leadership practices, or shift organizational culture toward resilience and relational power. It is especially valuable for those doing deep justice work in complex environments.
Why This Book Matters
Minor Feelings is a bold and necessary exploration of race, emotion, and identity in America. Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural critique, and political commentary to examine the psychological effects of being rendered invisible or incomprehensible in a country shaped by whiteness. She names the dissonant emotions that arise from being told you belong while being treated as an outsider.
Through deeply personal essays, Hong reflects on friendship, art, language, and the limitations of representation. She critiques the myth of the model minority and makes visible the internal landscape of racialized experience that is too often dismissed or generalized.
For cultural workers, educators, and storytellers, Minor Feelings offers a rich emotional and intellectual framework. Use it to build narrative strategies that center honesty, complexity, and care. It is especially useful for guiding conversations around racial trauma, visibility, and the politics of belonging.
Why This Book Matters
The Immigrant Rights Movement is a practical and timely guide to how undocumented youth and immigrant-led coalitions built real political power in the face of exclusion. Walter J. Nicholls offers a grounded, movement-centered analysis of how these organizers shifted public discourse, forced policy debates, and created lasting infrastructure for advocacy. Drawing from real campaigns and community strategies, this book centers the people most impacted by immigration policy as the authors of change.
Nicholls breaks down the tactics that helped move immigrant justice from the margins to the national stage. These include moral reframing, decentralized organizing, youth-led direct action, and local-to-national coalition building. This is not a passive history. It is a blueprint for how to respond to today’s attacks on immigrant communities with clarity, courage, and organizing skill.
Use it to strengthen campaigns, design leadership development programs, or support base-building efforts rooted in lived experience. This book is especially useful for educators, youth workers, policy advocates, and anyone building community power in a hostile political environment.
Why This Book Matters
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here is a vital and deeply reported account of how decades of U.S. foreign policy, civil war, and political instability in Central America shaped today’s immigration crisis. Jonathan Blitzer weaves together personal stories and historical context to show how decisions made in Washington and abroad led to the migration patterns we see now at the U.S. border.
Blitzer profiles migrants fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, and the advocates, lawyers, and officials working within a broken system. This book gives movement leaders, educators, and policy advocates a clearer picture of how migration is not spontaneous or chaotic. It is the predictable outcome of deliberate policy choices and structural neglect.
Use this book to root your organizing in global context, strengthen messaging around root causes, and connect immigration justice work to broader conversations about U.S. responsibility, displacement, and international solidarity.
Your Vision, Elevated
Your work shapes communities, strengthens systems, and responds to real needs. At the same time, the demands of programming, governance, fundraising, and planning can pull leaders away from the work they are best positioned to do.
Harvey & Smith Impact was built to support that reality. We provide embedded fundraising leadership and strategic advising that integrates directly with your organization. From donor strategy and campaign planning to grants and board engagement, we take on the work that often slows progress so you can lead with focus, clarity, and confidence.
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We embed an experienced fundraising leader directly into your organization to manage donor strategy, campaign planning, and grant work as part of your team. This approach provides consistent leadership and execution without the cost or complexity of a full-time hire.
Fundraising becomes structured, intentional, and steady, allowing your leadership team to focus on programs, people, and long-term direction with confidence.
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Our consulting work supports organizations navigating growth, transition, or complexity. From organizational assessments and capacity-building plans to board engagement and strategic planning, we help leaders make informed decisions that support sustainable progress.
Whether you are structuring a new initiative, strengthening cross-sector partnerships, or clarifying how success is measured, we provide guidance grounded in your mission, community context, and long-term goals.
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Grants remain an important part of many funding models, but they are most effective when integrated into a broader strategy. We approach grant work as one component of a holistic funding plan that also considers individual giving, partnerships, and organizational capacity.
Our team conducts targeted funder research and manages proposal development with close attention to alignment and feasibility. Each application is positioned to reflect your goals clearly, meet funder requirements, and support long-term impact rather than one-time wins.
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Securing funding is only one part of the process. We support organizations through implementation, compliance, budget tracking, and reporting to ensure commitments are met and systems stay organized.
We help maintain clear communication with funders, prepare required reports, and document outcomes in ways that support accountability and future funding conversations. The goal is consistency, credibility, and long-term funder relationships built on follow-through.
Keeping Rural Grocery Stores Alive with SNAP & Senior Meal Solutions
In small rural towns, a local grocery store is more than just a place to buy food - it’s a lifeline for the community. When the last independently owned grocery store in one such town faced closure, the local government and community leaders realized the devastating impact it would have on seniors, low-income families, and those without reliable transportation. Without intervention, residents would be left with few affordable options for fresh, healthy food.
Revitalizing a Community Arts & Culture Hub Through Sustainable Funding
A historic arts and culture hub was on the brink of closure, struggling with dwindling funding, rising costs, and limited community engagement. Without a sustainable financial model, the venue faced an uncertain future, putting local artists and vital programming at risk. Recognizing the urgency, Harvey & Smith Impact partnered with the organization to reimagine its approach to funding - one that would not only keep the doors open but ensure long-term stability.
Expanding Transportation Access for Young Adults with Disabilities
Transportation access remains a significant barrier for young adults with disabilities, limiting their ability to engage fully in social and economic activities. Many existing transportation solutions prioritize medical needs, leaving gaps in everyday mobility. This case study highlights how a community-driven nonprofit successfully implemented a scalable transportation initiative, bridging these gaps and fostering greater inclusivity.
Your organization is already doing important work. We help ensure it has the funding structure and strategic support to sustain and grow that work over time.
Connect with Harvey & Smith Impact to explore whether embedded fundraising leadership or strategic advising is the right fit for your organization. Together, we can build a funding approach that supports your mission today and strengthens it for the future.