Excelevate PB LLC
meet your trusted
Thought Partner, Problem Solver, and Strategist
Meet Erica McWhorter, the driving force behind Excelevate Public Benefit LLC. As the Principal Consultant, Erica brings a wealth of experience and a passionate commitment to generating clarity, empowering communities, and driving values based decision making that truly impacts society.
Fifteen years ago, after practicing as an attorney, I began consulting, offering my expertise on a pro bono basis to help budding nonprofits craft their business development documents and secure nonprofit corporate status. What began as a spark of curiosity about different legal avenues quickly transformed into a passion for guiding nonprofit operations, business development, and organizational planning. In the intervening years I also gained specialized expertise in homelessness, criminal justice, fund development, and nonprofit law - expertly understanding and weaving community need and innovation and institutional systems and processes.
My experience made me a big picture thinker. I believe in strategizing around opportunity not lack, creating holistic solutions, and operating from your values.
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Whether you're gearing up to launch a new project, crafting a plan to achieve a bold action, aiming to build new partnerships, or rallying stakeholders to support a fresh cause, consider me your go-to resource.
What I Value is Simple
I stand for peace, courage, and integrity for myself and others.
10x The Value Add
I provide tremendous value, ensuring a return on your investment as your strategy becomes goals, your objectives are prioritized, and your plans are adapted for action and success.
​Check out my promise to you:
We always begin with a clear scope of work that sets simple logical steps.
At the outset we identify internal ability to plan, act, and participate aligned to your existing capacity and workflows.
We explicitly state what success looks like and focus our goals to define the priorities that get us there.
We collaboratively determine where my expert assistance and hands on support is needed to start and complete the work.
We identify your desired results and map the work to it, using great planning to generate optimal outcomes.
We align the work to your existing plans and values to achieve objectives and goals you’ve already committed to.
We are willing and able to pause, think, and try something new, so your project is done right and well.
We collaborate to ensure usability, feasibility, and accountability.
We always include key decision points and recommendations for timing and implementation to avoid unnecessary costs, complications, overwhelm, and distractions.
We collaborate to maximize stakeholder expertise and ensure clarity, consistency, buy in and accountability for outcomes.