organizational strategy and planning
Turn big ideas into a clear path forward. RISE Lab helps organizations define their direction, align their people and resources, and build strategies designed to move from plan to practice.
FUND Development strategy
Build a stronger, more sustainable approach to funding your mission. We develop values-aligned strategies that strengthen fundraising systems, diversify revenue, and deepen relationships with supporters.
BRAND, VOICE, and STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
Build a brand that looks, sounds, and feels like your organization. From visual identity and rebranding to organizational voice and messaging, we create communications that are distinctive, cohesive, and rooted in your values.
IMPACT Story Telling
Make your impact impossible to miss. We transform data, stories, and organizational accomplishments into compelling impact reports and materials that show your community, funders, and supporters what their investment makes possible.
Donor Communication and stewardship
Turn giving into lasting relationships. We develop thoughtful campaigns, messaging, and stewardship strategies that help donors understand their impact and stay meaningfully connected to your mission.
equity-centered organizational development
Build organizational systems that reflect the values you put into the world. We help organizations translate commitments to equity into practical approaches to policy, culture, leadership, programs, and everyday operations.
Grant Writing
Turn Opportunity into sustainability with support in grant writing: Prospecting, Drafting, Submission and Reporting Support.
Chase Overholt
Chase Overholt is a nonprofit strategist, fundraiser, designer, and community leader who believes strong organizations are built when strategy, storytelling, and values work together. As an Executive Director and longtime nonprofit professional, Chase brings hands-on experience in organizational strategy, fund development, communications, branding, and equitable organizational practice.
Through RISE Lab, Chase brings that experience to mission-driven organizations ready to think creatively, strengthen their systems, tell their stories more powerfully, and turn ambitious ideas into actionable strategies.