About Us
Liberation Lighthouse is a BIPOC-led consulting collective, comprised of consultants from a wide range of social impact backgrounds. Grounded in Community-Centric Fundraising principles, Liberation Lighthouse aims to help organizations build towards collective visions of equity, justice, and liberation for marginalized communities. We do this by providing a range of supports to small- to mid-sized organizations. We are a worker-owned coop.
Rakhi Agrawal (she/her/ella)
Marcus Cunningham (he/him/his)
Services
Capacity-Building
Establishing a 501c3
Strategic planning
Fractional ED-ship/interim EDship
Process improvement
Operational support
Project management
Development & Fundraising
Development strategy
CRM selection + management
Landscape analysis
Grant writing & prospecting
Development operations
Online giving campaigns
Equity Work
Facilitation
Equity Analysis
Workshops and Training
Operationalizing equity
Fundraising equity audit
Our Values
Equity • Collectivism • Liberation
As a BIPOC-led consulting collective, we strive to co-create work that furthers equity for both our clients and our marginalized communities. This includes having tough conversations, declining projects that we may feel are harmful to communities of color, and valuing pay equity and resource-sharing above all.
We approach our work from a collectivist mindset, meaning we collaborate, learn together, deliver feedback, and approach conflict through a generative lens. We operate under consensus-based decision-making that centers the voices of the most affected on our team. We value relationships over everything and believe weaving strong ties is essential to harnessing our power.
We are interested in supporting projects and organizations that are deeply invested in the liberation of communities of color from oppressive structures such as a capitalism and systemic racism.
Rakhi is a network weaver, educator, mathematician, community organizer, fundraiser, data scientist, facilitator, strategist, and consultant working at the intersections of equity, justice, and liberation for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Currently, Rakhi organizes within the Community-Centric Fundraising movement, a global push to dismantle white supremacist structures within fundraising and philanthropy in order to fundamentally disrupt the nonprofit industrial complex. She is guided by Kimberlé Crenshaw’s framework of intersectionality, bell hook’s ideas of revolutionary love, Audre Lorde’s poetry and notions of resilience, and adrienne marie brown’s strategic dreaming. This work has taken her from being a grassroots community organizer, advocate, and movement builder to a classroom teacher, coach, tutor, and curriculum writer to a nonprofit development director, interim ED, grant writer, program manager, and operations manager to a machine learning engineer and data scientist and beyond, always seeking mergers within these roles in order to create a world she has never seen. She is committed to building community with people who share vision, values, frameworks, and joy, on work that radically redistributes power to intersectional BIPOC communities.