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We're Here for Your Impact

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We are consultants and experienced nonprofit leaders who have lived your challenges first-hand.

Nonprofits and their missions are our sole focus. We work exclusively with organizations committed to making the world better—in cultural significance, education, racial and social justice, and the health and wellbeing of all life on the planet. We deeply understand how nonprofits operate and make decisions.
Our Story

Why We Exist


Nonprofit organizations deserve technology partners who truly understand their world. Not consultants who treat nonprofits as a side business or who have never been in your shoes. Not vendors pushing products. But experienced nonprofit leaders who've navigated your challenges.

The members of our team have spent 25+ years in nonprofit management. We've wrestled with limited budgets, competing priorities, and pressure to do more with less. We've led technology initiatives, managed change, and learned what works.

That lived experience is our foundation. It informs how we listen, advise, and partner with you
Our Team

Senior-Level Expertise, Every Engagement


We assign only highly experienced team members to client work.

Alan Levine

Founder & Partner


Alan builds on over 30 years of senior IT and business leadership experience to guide organizations in creative uses of information technology to achieve their desired business outcomes. Alan served as a managing partner with Barker & Scott Consulting before transitioning its consulting services to Enabling Digital. He has advised national and international organizations of all sizes, served as an Executive Coach to individual CIO and senior IT leaders, and is a regular presenter on expert panels at non-profit and IT industry conferences. Alan has served as a virtual CIO for organizations including the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Covenant House International, The League of Women Voters, and the Children’s Science Center. He is a founding member of the worldwide CIO Executive Council and a co-founder of the Board of the Tessitura Network, Inc. that provides state-of-the-art software for customer relationship management, ticketing, and fundraising to museums, zoos, aquariums and performing arts organizations in six countries

Barry Smith

Fractional CIO and Senior Consultant


Barry brings over 30 years of experience in all aspects of technology and operations management. His career includes Big Six consulting (Coopers & Lybrand), Fortune 500 IT management (Marriott International), a Silicon Valley startup (NetDynamics, now a division of Sun), and building nationally recognized, award-winning IT departments at the City of Gaithersburg, Maryland as well as the privately held Merkle Inc. He is dedicated to interpersonal collaboration and alignment, deeply understanding business models, and the practical implementation of stable, secure, scalable and useful technologies.

Certifications: ITIL, PMP, CSM, CSPO and CISM.

Casey Empey

Senior Consultant


Casey is a business leader with a unique mix of in-depth analytical knowledge and client service success, focused on nonprofit technologies and consulting. For more than ten years, she has worked with nonprofits to help clients optimize results. A former Professional Services Director at Blackbaud, Casey oversaw multiple service groups, whose responsibilities included the implementation of nonprofit CRM software, retainer services, and analytical offerings. Earlier in her career at Integral, Casey provided strategic analytical services utilizing complex and custom datasets. Before working with nonprofits, Casey was a consultant for Arthur Andersen, where she was instrumental in key litigation support, intellectual property, and strategic projects for Fortune100 companies.

Vicki Ann Frawley

Senior Consultant


Vicki is a proven leader who leverages more than 20 years of experience working with non-profits in order to help organizations drive bottom line results. She brings her clients a holistic approach to successfully drive projects through to closure—always mindful of both change management and people development. Vicki is also a dedicated personal development coach focused on fostering an environment for transformative change in her clients. One of Vicki’s strengths is her ability to work through short term activities and tactics while maintaining a view toward achieving strategic objectives.

Certifications: ADKAR® Change Management Methodology (by Prosci), Professional Proactive Coach (from the Coaches Training Institute), The Leadership Circle Profile Administrator.

Lachelle McMillan, PMP

Senior Consultant


Lachelle has over 20 years experience collaborating with organizations to drive success for information technology related initiatives. Her experience spans all aspects of enterprise technology management and project leadership, with a strong focus on project management of large, complex implementations, and business analysis. Previously, as Director of Information Technology for PRA International, she oversaw all aspects of the back-office systems, managed the enterprise systems portfolio, and ensured projects aligned with strategic initiatives. Lachelle also led global system implementations at Baker Tilly (previously Beers + Cutler) and was a Manager at Deloitte & Touché and at Arthur Andersen.

Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), ADKAR® Change Management Methodology.

Brian Greenwald

Senior Consultant


Brand visionary, ecosystem builder, and purpose-driven executive with 30+ years leveraging technology and human-centered design as an organizational growth catalyst.
Extensive experience in leadership, technology, brand, and business strategy roles in and in service of nonprofits. Passionate about co-creation methodologies that help organizations design and actualize their ideal future state.
Our Values

Values That Guide Everything We Do

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Mission-Driven, Outcomes-Focused

Our approach is tied to achieving real outcomes, not just submitting billable deliverables. We focus on every aspect that leads to real success with technology and data, focused on your people first and foremost. 
Vendor-Independent

Zero financial ties to any vendor ensures conflict-free recommendations.
Participatory by Design

We design projects so everyone feels welcomed, heard, respected, and valued.
Evidence-Based

We ground recommendations in research, data, experience, and best practices, not assumptions.
People-First

Technology success depends on empowering people. That's our center.

Funding What We Believe In

We donate 1% of revenue annually to nonprofits serving our society and working on critical issues.

 

We're a founding signatory. Simple: We won't work with organizations engaged in hate or extremist activities.

 
Who We Work With

Selective Partnerships with Values-Aligned Organizations

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We're selective about who we work with. We partner with nonprofits committed to making this a better world.

We've built long-term relationships across sectors including:

 
Arts & Culture
Social & Racial Justice
Environmental Conservation
Education
Health & Wellbeing
International Development
Religious & Spiritual Organizations
What if you had

a partner who...
...has been in your shoes?

 
...has lived nonprofit culture from the inside?

 
...can unite your team around smart choices?

Enjoy the Enabling Digital Advantage


We merge strategic vision with tactical execution, bringing lived nonprofit experience to every engagement.
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Impactful, Values-Based Choices

Make bold decisions by embracing diverse viewpoints and overcoming risk for a dynamic, stable future.
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Deep, Collaborative Excellence

Connect teams across your organization with an inclusive, evidence-based approach that sparks shared commitment.
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Strategy Meets Operations

No matter our focus, we understand the full end-to-end process and how everything fits together. Make more than just progress. Make contextually powerful progress.

How We Help You Succeed


Comprehensive expertise across the technology strategy, management, adoption, and value delivery lifecycle
Impactful, Values-Based Choices

Make bold decisions by embracing diverse viewpoints and overcoming risk for a dynamic, stable future.
Deep, Collaborative Excellence

Connect teams across your organization with an inclusive, evidence-based approach that sparks shared commitment.
Impactful, Values-Based Choices

Make bold decisions by embracing diverse viewpoints and overcoming risk for a dynamic, stable future.
Deep, Collaborative Excellence

Connect teams across your organization with an inclusive, evidence-based approach that sparks shared commitment.
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What if you had a partner who's been in your shoes?, Who’s lived nonprofit culture from the inside?, Who can unite your team around smart choices?

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