Long Holland Strategies helps organizations and leaders unlock opportunities, power creativity, and catalyze social change.

Sarah Long Holland is a fundraiser, communicator, and strategic thinker.

As principal of Long Holland Strategies, Sarah helps her clients distill clarity from complexity, tell compelling stories, and generate transformative funding. Based in Chicago, Sarah serves clients nationwide.

Drawing on Sarah’s cross-sector experience in the arts, public health, higher education, corporate finance, and foundation philanthropy, Long Holland Strategies offers scalable services tailored to each client’s needs.

Sarah is equally dedicated to practical planning and thinking outside the box. She delights in turning problems on their heads and finding the opportunities amidst the challenges. With insight, vision, and pragmatism, Sarah supports powerful transformation that generates new capacity for growth.

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I am endlessly curious to find the connections between great ideas and the resources to bring them to life. I believe that listening is a fundraiser’s—and indeed any leader’s—most powerful tool. Listening awakens curiosity. Curiosity awakens possibilities.

Photo credit: Sean T. McGill Photography

HOW WE WORK

Long Holland Strategies came into being in 2021, to help arts organizations tap into emergency funding and stabilize their resources amidst major pandemic disruptions. As the practice has grown to encompass fundraising strategy, organizational change management, writing projects, and advisory services, these questions drive the work:

  • How do we articulate vision when the landscape is rapidly evolving?

  • What skills are needed to cultivate agility that unlocks opportunity?

  • What drives our success?

Long Holland Strategies helps you hone your vision, crystallize your plans, and tell stories that sing.

  • "Insightful. Precise. Holistic. Sarah has enabled us to uncover opportunities for synergy in transformative ways, sharply elevating our organization’s points of strength and differentiation, while engaging strategically with our challenges.”

    Andrés Holder
    Executive Director, Boston Children’s Chorus

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