Where is your organization on it’s journey?
Organizations need different kinds of support at different stages of their development. Callive tailors its approach to your organization’s current capacity, priorities, and vision for the future.
Developing
Your organization is establishing its foundation, often within its first five years. You may not yet have a strategic plan or fully developed governance, funding, and leadership systems. You want to make thoughtful decisions now that will support sustainable growth later.
Growing
Your organization has established programs, demonstrated community impact, and experienced some funding success. With the foundation in place, you are ready to strengthen your infrastructure, expand strategically, and prepare for the next stage of growth.
course-correcting
Your organization has a strategic direction, but performance may not be meeting expectations, or changes in funding, leadership, policy, or community needs may require a different approach. You need to reassess assumptions, clarify priorities, and adjust your strategy.
transforming
Your organization has a stable foundation and is ready to pursue a significant new level of impact. You may be considering expansion, new partnerships, leadership changes, organizational restructuring, or a bold shift in how you advance your mission.
Nonprofit Wellness Quick Diagnostic
Meet the Team Behind Your Impact
Olive idehen, principal
The community in which we live, work, play and worship impacts who we are as individuals and our quality of life. Nonprofit and social change organizations can generally improve the quality of life for communities at a local, state, and global level to ensure a civil society. I have spent my professional career learning and honing my skills both in the nonprofit and financial sectors in preparation for my role as founder of Callive LLC.
I’ve served as the founding Executive Director, Coalition for Nonprofit Housing Development in Washington, DC, where I was involved in affordable housing issues. As Senior Director, Housing and Community Development at the former Fannie Mae Foundation, I was a funder. Then I wanted to understand the flow of both private and public sector capital in community development and served as Bank of America’s Vice President, Community Relations Manager where I implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative within the Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs line of business. In addition, I supported the Market President, charitable foundation and community outreach activities and initiatives that addressed critical needs in the low-and moderate-income communities in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. This knowledge was further enhanced during my tenure at E*TRADE, a $50 billion online bank and brokerage company where I revamped and managed community reinvestment (CRA) activities for the Washington, DC metropolitan area. This strategy resulted in a successful regulatory compliance exam and achieved an “outstanding” rating from a “needs to improve”.
I'm a 2018 graduate of Leadership Montgomery’s CORE class. My strength finders are an achiever, a connector, a learner, and a maximizer. I hold a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters in City Planning from Boston University.
In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of Manna Homes, Coalition for Nonprofit Housing & Economic Development, and Life Asset, Inc., listening to podcasts and audible books, traveling and walking/hiking are passions of mine.
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JOAN WOODS, senior ASSOCIATE
Joan Woods is Senior Associate with Callive LLC. She is a seasoned community development professional, relationship builder and resource development expert with competencies in fundraising, communications, and nonprofit organizational development. Joan sharpened her vision and approach to supporting growth and effective planning for nonprofit organizations across a broad range of local, regional, national and internationally-focused nonprofit organizations and significant issues such as international girl’s education, reproductive rights, crime victim rights, housing and community development, child development and homeless family services.
Joan is an expert trainer and technical assistance provider who has developed curriculum, training and other strategies to support the effective growth and strategic planning of nonprofit organizations in critical management areas. Her experience includes supporting a network of 1,400 community development organizations during her work at the Enterprise Foundation with advanced training and planning best practices, especially fundraising, communications and community engagement. She strengthened and demonstrated her expertise by supporting strategic planning processes for significant organizations such as the National Affordable Housing Trust, Manna Food Center, the Omidyar Network’s Rights and Dignity Working Group and Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF).
Her professional career has been focused on helping nonprofits and other social good organizations think about—and prepare—to raise the financial resources, investors and support they need to achieve their mission. She has led fundraising and communications strategy and execution for high-profile, high-performing, and high-potential nonprofits such as Martha’s Table, Bright Beginnings, and the Kakenya Center for Excellence at key growth points. Joan is a natural storyteller who worked as a newspaper reporter and/or bureau chief for daily newspapers. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from Howard University.
Omolola Omole-Odubekun, Senior Associate
Lola is a Senior Associate with Callive LLC and brings a diverse range of skills (including editing, research, writing and analysis) from a professional background in law, criminal justice, international development and higher education.
Lola’s over four decades of planning, managerial and leadership experience along with a global outlook from a combination of living and working in south Asia, east and west Africa as well as the U.K. and U.S., encourages high team cohesion, learning and productivity.
This has resulted in positive outcomes for public, private, higher education, and not-for-profit organizations in the United States and abroad.