We can help you improve operations, create alignment, and empower your nonprofit to fulfill its mission.

Loving Venti is a consulting firm, specifically equipped to strengthen small-to-medium sized nonprofits to meet the needs of their community.

Improve your Service

one step at a time

There’s a lot of nonprofits doing the good work of alleviating injustice and suffering in this world. Nonprofits create lasting impact by developing people, passions, and programs to bring purpose and hope from broken experiences.

We know that very few nonprofits have time, money, or energy to complete a full strategic plan at one time. In fact, our world changes so quickly that many five-year strategic plans are often irrelevant by year two. Our model breaks up a traditional plan into affordable and practical pieces called modules. By focusing on one or two modules annually, we can assist your organization to grow your impact one step at a time.

We believe small-to-medium sized nonprofits are uniquely positioned to create long-lasting impact with relatively few dollars. While there is a substantial market for nonprofit resources, very few are specifically designed for nonprofits under $500,000.

If that’s your organization, we’re here for you.

We break up the strategic planning process into affordable modules, to maximize your organization’s impact and money.

Who We Serve

A Little Bit of Loving Venti... A Lot of Community Impact

What Others are saying

The Oasis Project Inc. might not be here without the help of Catherine Pederson! As a retired middle school teacher, I knew little about the non-profit world. All I knew is that I wanted to gather my retired teacher friends together to serve under-resourced kids whose parents could not afford to hire the help they so desperately needed. All I had was an idea. Catherine put feet to that idea! She helped me with all of the legal work, the 501(c)(3) application, and advised me on specific strategies for launch. She reviewed my website and advised me on fundraising. She is a treasure trove of wisdom on just about any subject non-profit. That was six years ago! Since then, we’ve expanded free professional tutoring services to five public schools and helped more than 100 children.

Take heart! You don’t have to know everything to move forward! You just need a vision, a heart to learn, and as many smart people around you as you can. Catherine Pederson is one of those very smart people! She’s someone I’d highly recommend to help before, during and after you start your non-profit world journey. She cares about your success!

Jan FransFounder | CEO

I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Catherine. She partnered with me to develop critical skill sets around fundraising and management that were tailored to the needs of my small nonprofit, as well as my own personal goals. As a new Executive Director early in my career, it was important for me to have a safe space to problem-solve, strategize, and grow. I know I'm a better and more confident leader as a result of her coaching and patient mentoring. Catherine has a unique ability to connect with others and bring out their best qualities. Her strengths-based approach, along with her own diverse background as an Executive Director, provided the right kind of support for me at the right time in my career.

Sophia TorrijosExecutive Director, Friedens Community Ministries

In 2017, we started Welcomed, a ministry to vulnerable children and the families who care for them. At the time, we knew quite a lot about the plight of vulnerable children, we knew the Church could be the answer to bringing these children healing, and we knew were called to do this work. What we did not know was how to start a non-profit. Thank God (literally) we were connected to Catherine and Loving Venti. Without her, we might still be struggling to get our 501(c)(3) status. Catherine walked us step-by-step through the application process. In doing so, she also helped us streamline our ministry goals and budget.

One of the best things about the experience is that Catherine truly shared a passion for our ministry and empowering the Church to care for vulnerable children. It felt like she was truly invested in our ministry as a co-laborer in the work we are doing.

Scott Kingston and Bruce WilliamsCo-Directors, Welcomed

Catherine has a vast network and has been instrumental in making connections for our ministry. She helped us create a larger vision for the ministry than we ever expected! Her knowledge and expertise in helping us form our own 501(c)(3) was instrumental in getting our ministry to the next level! While our team had done multiple missions trips sponsored by local churches, our legal entity status helps "legitimize" our organization, which directly helped increase our financial support. Doing so has allowed us to grow our local partnerships and deepen our committed with Centro Evangelico El Prado school in Azua, Dominican Republic.

Bill and Sue HintzHands for Hope, Inc.

Catherine is a joy to work with in support of our community engagement and our missions that connect to poverty and homelessness. Her style is such that she listens intently, takes copious notes and asks clarifying questions to be sure she received the essence of what you might be telling her. In our work together, Catherine could point to small details that might have a large impact on the issue at hand. Or, she can look beyond the immediacy of the issue from the detail to the bigger picture. She does this in a way that draws you in – makes you want to “lean into” the issue that you are talking about and to see it from a different perspective.

I have worked with Catherine at both the board and operational levels. Though they are contextually different spaces, Catherine can link the two together. When this happens, we go deeper into the issue rather than look or act on something at a superficial level.

David Nelson, Ph. D.Friedens and StreetLife Communities

I have known Catherine for approximately 5 years in several capacities. Among the many ways that she has used her gifts and skills to bless our lives are the following:

Catherine is an excellent networker and alliance-builder. She works hard to develop and maintain relationships across the non-profit space, and has brought people and expertise to the table who could help us grow our organization. We would not have been able to locate those people without her warm handoff.

Catherine is extremely knowledgeable about foundation financial development. She knows how to find funders, how to communicate with them, and how to foster and maintain healthy relationships with them.

Catherine is very well-versed in developing multiple income streams, and sustainability within each. She works as easily with large numbers of small donors, and she does with large foundations, and vice versa.

Catherine is extremely knowledgeable about organizational systems and culture, and she utilized that knowledge to solidify our organization through the development of policy and procedure manuals that helped us to be a more sustainable organization, and aided with developing a uniformity of communication among different sites, while taking into account the uniqueness of each of those sites.

Catherine’s calm demeanor and steady leadership helped us to navigate a broad season of growth!

Max RamseyPastor | StreetLife Communities

Strategic Modules

People

Help for a Struggling Nonprofit

Volunteer Engagement

Board Engagement

Transformational Relationships

Coaching

Purpose

Mission, Vision, and Values Alignment

Programs

Building Person-Centered Programs

Screening Tool

Position

Market Position Strategy

Roots

Foundations

Tools for Small-to-Medium Sized Nonprofits

Policies

Starting a Nonprofit in Wisconsin

Funding

Donor Analysis

Funding Strategy

Events

Next Step

Look through Loving Venti’s Strategic Modules
and see how we can walk alongside you!