Experience-based consulting to guide you from idea to achievement
ABOUT
Laura Hale, Owner
(all pronouns welcome)
I find immense joy in helping people do amazing things that make the world a better place. For over two decades I have had the privilege of working within the community organizing, nonprofit, government, and small business sectors as a fundraiser and grant writer, program manager, business owner, and executive director.
My professional life has given me the chance to take on many roles. I’ve served as the executive director for a coalition of free and referral clinics throughout Vermont, directed the city of Burlington’s AmeriCorps VISTA program, fundraised for multiple nonprofits that support children and families, supported city councilors with research and constituent outreach, and managed grassroots campaigns for first time political candidates, among many other things. Using that experience, I’ve worked with dozens of nonprofits and community groups as a consultant and coach to help them set and realize their goals
My volunteer work has been equally as rewarding, serving as a member of several nonprofit boards of directors and city commissions, and as a member of neighborhood coalitions. In 2014 I founded and remain president of a nonprofit community fund, the ONE Good Deed Fund, that provides small grants for individual good deeds and neighborhood projects in my Old North End (ONE) neighborhood.
In my personal life I’m a gardener, composter, and macro nature photographer in Burlington, VT, where I live with my wife Jessica and a menagerie of rescue animals.