our purpose

Americans are reeling from financial crises, income inequality, debt, foreign wars, intergenerational change, environmental degradation, and a spectrum of afflictions that often seem intractable: addiction, chronic disease, racial conflict, violence, homelessness, loneliness. 

Now more than ever, Americans depend on the services, institutions, and voluntary associations that comprise civil society. 

Yet, faith in America’s institutions — including charitable organizations — is in decline. 

Many people feel let down at the very moment when they need a hand up. Others, including myself, wonder if our current system of tax-incentivized charitable giving serves all Americans. 

What's more, the ways in which Americans communicate, gather, and give, are undergoing generational change. 

I began Lemolo Bay Advisors to help America’s charities navigate these changes and to help restore faith in America's voluntary sector. 

Our time calls upon organizational leaders to open themselves and their institutions up to our emerging new reality. Business-as-usual leadership and legacy thinking will not rise to meet the solemnity of our moment. 

With decades of consulting and executive leadership in the for-profit, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors, I know that leaders, executives, and managers depend on independent, non-conflicted counsel to achieve their institution’s goals.

I also know that good advice is hard to find! 

This is especially true as charitable organizations of every kind confront the unique challenges of our time. 

Lemolo Bay Advisors is a boutique advisory and services group. We have decades of experience helping nonprofits, philanthropies, and for-profit businesses adapt, change, and build stronger institutions. 

We pride ourselves on candor born of experience. 

We help nonprofit leaders achieve their fundraising, management, and organizational goals through three primary areas of practice: 

· Advice, Counsel, & Teaching 

· Audits & Assessment 

· Planning & Execution 

We work with public charities of every size — from start-ups to legacy institutions — whose charitable purposes are unambiguously good and respectful of all human persons. 

If charitable organizations can meet the challenges of our time by better fulfilling their charitable purposes, we'll restore public confidence in America’s voluntary institutions and build a stronger, more inclusive civil society. 

Jeffrey J. Cain, Ph.D., Principal