In partnership,

- Michele Bart, Founder

I understand the nonprofit sector from the inside out. As the founder of Purposeful Consulting Group, I bring decades of experience leading organizations, building teams, raising significant funds, and navigating real-world complexity. I have thoughtfully built a trusted network of experienced practitioners who bring deep expertise across complementary disciplines, allowing us to support organizations with both strategic insight and practical implementation.

Through Purposeful Consulting Group, I partner with executive leaders to navigate growth, change, and complexity. I provide strategic counsel, guide implementation, and design capacity-building approaches that strengthen fundraising, operations, governance, and leadership. Our team brings specialized expertise that enhances the work and ensures thoughtful, comprehensive support.

Whether addressing an immediate challenge or building long-term organizational resilience, I serve as a collaborative thought partner invested in your mission’s success.

Together, we offer tailored guidance that honors your mission, strengthens leadership, and creates sustainable solutions to support your organization for the long term.

Core Focus Areas:

  • Executive and Leadership Coaching

  • Fundraising and Development

  • Finance and Accounting

  • Board Recruitment and Engagement

  • Strategic Planning and Capacity Development

About

Why Leaders Choose to Partner With Us

Specialized Expertise that complements your internal team and fills critical gaps with seasoned insight.

Focused Capacity that helps you move priority work forward when time and bandwidth are stretched.

Fresh Perspective that brings clarity to complexity and thoughtful momentum to mission-critical initiatives.

Leadership Support that strengthens executive confidence, sharpens decision-making, and fosters team alignment during periods of growth or change.

Who We’ve Served & Supported

  • Alzheimer’s Association

  • Arizona Opera

  • CoLIBERATE USA

  • CWEN Uganda

  • Feeding America

  • Feeding San Diego

  • Firebird Community Arts

  • HeadNorth, Help and Hope for spinal cord injury survivors

  • Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

  • Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation

  • UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

We’ve supported—and worked within—organizations of all sizes, missions, and scopes. Our experience spans local nonprofits, national organizations and federated networks, and global institutions.

Organizations reflect a mix of consulting partnerships and prior leadership roles held by members of our team.