Red Olive Creative Consulting

Red Olive Creative Consulting (Red Olive) is a boutique fundraising and organizational development consulting firm, specializing in small shop, start-up, and Black arts organizations. Red Olive’s signature offerings include OLIVE'S CLASSROOM—a collaborative workshop space geared towards building the right fundraisers for your organization, BLACK ART FUTURES FUND, (BAFF) a collaborative project aimed at developing a stronger private sector of funds specifically for small Black-led, Black-serving arts institutions across the country, and DEEP IN THE WORK a podcast celebrating Black women in the arts & culture administration fields. With BAFF’s Executive and Advisory board volunteers, Red Olive organizes fundraisers to leverage individual dollars in service of small Black arts organizations. Together, we help organizations build stronger infrastructures for pivotal moments, growth postures, and leadership change. 

We are growing and excited to explore the possibilities of our work as we mark 8 years this summer. Our ecosystem of knowledgeable arts administrators of color, established professionals in the arts & culture field, institutional and individual funders as partners in this work, a network of clients and grantee organizations spanning the continental US make us an ideal partner for established arts worker candidates wanting to make change and deep impact across sectors in service to arts & culture field and the future sustainability of small Black arts organizations. As we are invested in the future of the organizations we work with, Red Olive invests in our team.