Grace’s 40th Birthday fundraiser

“Coaching with [C4CL Coach] helped me create alignment between my values and work and revitalized how I show up for everyone who depends on me.”

Francesca, Public Education Leader

“As a facilitator for my non-profit organization, [C4CL Coach] helped our team turn abstract ideas into concrete action while teaching us how to make small changes that had lasting improvements on our team’s communication and collaboration.”

C.L., Community Leader

a goal as ambitious as grace

Grace Manley is the Founder and Executive Director of Coaching for Community Leaders (C4CL), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that exists to increase equity in access to the transformative impact of executive coaching. C4CL serves leaders in nonprofit organizations that advance the rights and opportunities for historically marginalized communities. For her 40th birthday, she has a fundraising goal as ambitious as she is: $40,000 to take what we've learned in 2025 through developing relationships with nonprofit leaders and piloting our business model, and launch it at scale in 2026.

What we ACCOMPLISHED in 2025:

  • Successfully piloted our services model to 3 nonprofit organizations and served 14 nonprofit leaders

  • Developed internal processes and infrastructure needed to deliver services professionally and at scale

  • Deepened our coaching bench with certified, highly-experienced, and culturally attuned and responsive coaches

  • Built Executive Director capacity through intensive learning about nonprofit finances, governance fundamentals, and board leadership - developing the confidence and skills required to lead C4CL effectively

What we aim to achieve in 2026:

  • Develop partnerships with foundations and nonprofit coalitions to become their leadership development provider of choice for their grantees

  • Launch the Lighthouse Leadership Fund to provide pro bono services to serve nonprofit leaders of smaller, developing nonprofit organizations

  • Invest in our compliance and governance processes and infrastructure to achieve nonprofit standards accreditation to increase our credibility and competitiveness for grants

  • Develop our coaching bench to deepen their skills and impact in serving leaders from and/or serving marginalized communities

help us reach our most ambitious goal yet

so we can make our greatest impact yet

C4CL is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your donation is tax-deductible.

Questions? Email giving@c4cl.org