Elevating Impact
Molly founded the Harper Consulting Group in 2009 to support nonprofits and socially driven businesses in building sustainable, impactful programs, products and services. Excelling at dispelling fears around fundraising, sales, and helping groups develop the skills for quality relationship-based engagement practices, Molly’s passion for this work is contagious. Her career spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. In the public sector, Molly started in political fundraising for both rural campaigns and U.S. Senate races, eventually working for the head of the Senate Finance Committee. She has seen public funding from all angles, from securing federal dollars to managing their impact on direct services, giving her a comprehensive view of the journey from funding inception to impact. In the private sector, Molly has launched new enterprises and brought innovation to established companies, collaborating with private investors and startups to create sustainable financial models. She understands the importance of agile, resilient business models for long-term success and maintaining relevance with target audiences. For nearly 20 years, Molly has worked in the nonprofit sector to advance fundraising practices, strengthen organizational capacity, and build balanced, collaborative relationships with funders. Early in her nonprofit career, she recognized that the sector’s reliance on philanthropy alone is often unsustainable. She and her team help nonprofits evolve their financial models to be more resilient and their service models more adaptable in the face of ever-changing demands. By blending the best strategies from each sector, Molly develops hybrid business models that drive stability and growth, including guiding nonprofits in building earned income revenue streams. Harper Consulting Group embodies her extensive experience, offering tailored services to maximize nonprofits’ resources. Molly currently lives with her sweet dog in beautiful Seattle, Washington.
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Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
This week on Elevating Impact, a podcast sharing insights on how to tackle the challenging terrain nonprofits face today, Alison Bakewell joins us to talk about her work as Executive Director of Cake4Kids. Cake4Kids is a nonprofit committed to making sure at-risk and underserved kids have a custom birthday cake made exactly as they request. These aren’t just cakes, but a message to these youth that they matter and have not been forgotten.
Read more about the work of the Cake4Kids and how you can support them at their website, https://www.cake4kids.org/.
To hear from more inspiring nonprofit leaders in our weekly podcast episodes, you can find us at the following places:Website: https://mollyee.podbean.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/elevating-impact/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatingimpact/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569834672923
Friday Feb 28, 2025
Friday Feb 28, 2025
This week on Elevating Impact, a podcast sharing insights on how to tackle the challenging terrain nonprofits face today, Katie Dalton joins us to talk about her work as Executive Director of the Crime Victim Center of St. Louis. The CVC is a nonprofit that works to change the lives of crime victims by offering advocacy, counseling, legal assistance programs, and community engagement.
Read more about the work of the CVC and how you can support them at their website, https://www.supportvictims.org/.
To hear from more inspiring nonprofit leaders in our weekly podcast episodes, you can find us at the following places:Website: https://mollyee.podbean.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/elevating-impact/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatingimpact/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569834672923
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
This week on Elevating Impact, a podcast sharing insights on how to tackle the challenging terrain nonprofits face today, Greater Omaha Chamber Director of Business Development Becky Phipps joins us to talk about plans and hopes for business in Omaha in 2025.
Learn more about the Greater Omaha Chamber at their website, https://www.omahachamber.org/.
To hear from more inspiring nonprofit leaders in our weekly podcast episodes, you can find us at the following places:Website: https://mollyee.podbean.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/elevating-impact/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatingimpact/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569834672923
Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
This week on Elevating Impact, a podcast sharing insights on how to tackle the challenging terrain nonprofits face today, West Place Animal Sanctuary Founder and Executive Director Wendy Taylor joins us to discuss the path that led her from practicing law to running an animal sanctuary.
Listen to Taylor discuss the challenges and the joys that come with her organization’s work with rescued animals in Rhode Island.
Learn more about West Place Animal Sanctuary at https://www.westplace.org/,
To hear from more inspiring nonprofit leaders in our weekly podcast episodes, you can find us at the following places:Website: https://mollyee.podbean.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/elevating-impact/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatingimpact/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569834672923
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
Saturday Feb 08, 2025
This week on Elevating Impact, a podcast sharing insights on how to tackle the challenging terrain nonprofits face today, Executive Director of Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.) Curt Yagi joins us. He discusses his work with R.O.C.K, which supports at-risk kids in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley through academic and social programs.
You can learn more about R.O.C.K at https://rocksf.org/!
To hear from more inspiring nonprofit leaders in our weekly podcast episodes, you can find us at the following places:
Website: https://mollyee.podbean.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/elevating-impact/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatingimpact/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569834672923
Friday Jan 31, 2025
Friday Jan 31, 2025
In the first episode of Elevating Impact, a podcast sharing insights on how to tackle the challenging terrain nonprofits face today, Girlstart Executive Director Shane Woods joins us to talk about the great work that Girlstart does by using STEM to empower 4th-8th grade girls. You can learn more about Girlstart at their website, https://girlstart.org/.
To hear from more inspiring nonprofit leaders in our weekly podcast episodes, you can find us at the following places:Website: https://mollyee.podbean.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/elevating-impact/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elevatingimpact/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569834672923
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Tuesday Jan 28, 2025
Take a peek at some thoughts from Molly Harper, Founder & CEO of the Harper Consulting Group, around implications on nonprofits and the nonprofit sector based on promises from the Trump administration.