She consults high-performing foundation and nonprofit leaders on growth strategy, management and implementation planning. Kate currently partners with The Bridgespan Group, a consulting firm affiliated with Bain & Company, as a coach and facilitator for its Leading for Impact® program, helping ambitious nonprofits pursue strategic opportunities and build capacity to improve their performance over time, focusing on customized team-led projects and executive team development. She is a faculty coach at the University of Chicago’s Booth Business School and Adjunct Faculty at Loyola University, teaching Leadership Effectiveness in the Quinlan School of Business.

Kate served most recently as a managing director and head of Project Impact at A Better Chicago, a venture philanthropy fund. In this role, she was a leader in shaping the organization’s grant-making strategy, which involved determining funding priorities, how it supported portfolio organizations and when to exit grantee relationships. Additionally, she oversaw multi-year relationships with a portfolio of grantees, including conducting diligence and brokering management support. She also led community impact strategic planning as a director at the United Way of Metro Chicago.

After earning an MBA from Harvard Business School, Kate received a fellowship to write strategy and marketing cases for that institution. Shortly thereafter, she worked for The Bridgespan Group where she consulted nonprofit and foundation management teams to undertake growth while maintaining high quality outcomes for their beneficiaries. Early in her career, Kate was co-founder and executive director of Computers for Children, an organization that enhances children’s educational opportunities through technology.

Kate attended the College of Executive Coaching, is certified in administering Myers Briggs Type Indicator, and has spent years researching and learning about transition for women and leadership, which spurred an initiative and focus area on women’s leadership.

In her spare time, Kate hosts Iron Chef competitions and enjoys lip sync battles with her husband and their four children. She is actively involved in the Family Action Network (FAN) and in her children’s schools, most recently jamming on air guitar for the McKenzie Elementary annual fundraiser. She is also a Gold Investor Circle member and volunteer at Women Employed, and a strategic advisor for Reading in Motion.

Elizabeth supports government and nonprofit leaders to create lasting change at scale:
– Chicago Department of Public Health – development, launch, and expansion of universal newborn intervention, Family Connects Chicago – reaching over 30,000 newborns annually for maternal and child health screening in their homes (2018-present)
– Girl Coalition of Indiana – listening sessions with girls, caregivers, and youth providers to investigate the root causes of disparities between girls and boys in Indiana and build a call to action for all Indiana residents to address challenges faced by girls and improve the odds for their success (2024 – present)
– Lurie Children’s Hospital and the Illinois State Board of Education – creating a metrics system reflecting school capacity to support student mental health (Resilience-Supportive Schools Illinois) and program management for the Resilience Education to Advance Community Healing program (2022 – present)
– Chicago Public Schools – advancing a vision for culturally and linguistically sustaining, advanced literacy in one of the largest urban school districts in the country (2019 – present)  

From 2008-2012, Eli oversaw $40M in annual grants as VP of Community Investment at United Way of Metropolitan Chicago. Prior to that, she led organizational strategies in economic empowerment for women, racial justice, and sexual assault programming during her 8 year tenure with the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago.

Eli holds faculty positions with Northwestern University’s Harvey Kapnick Center for Business Institutions and at the University of Chicago Crown School of Social Work. She holds a BA with Honors from Wellesley College, MA from University of Chicago, and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has served on the boards of the Apollo Chorus of Chicago, Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation, and Center for New Community.

Alongside her work at Aim & Arrow, Devi has served as coach and facilitator for The Bridgespan Group’s Leading For Impact® program in Chicago, as well as its Strategic Clarity Accelerator. Devi joined Aim & Arrow from Bain & Company, where began as an Analyst and left as a Manager. She has held Strategy Director roles at organizations as diverse as Feeding America and a salesforce automation start-up. She holds a BA in Economics and Sociology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University (Marketing, Finance, Social Enterprise). She lives in Evanston with her husband and three kids.

Prior to joining Aim & Arrow, Alisa worked at GRAPH Strategy, a boutique consulting firm focused on commercial due diligence.

Alisa holds a BA in Economics with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School and a BSE in Bioengineering from The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, both from the University of Pennsylvania.

Annette Charles is an experienced nonprofit and public-sector leader with more than two decades of experience advancing equity through strategy, policy, and practice. Her career has focused on strengthening organizations and systems that improve outcomes for children, families, and communities.

Annette works with Aim and Arrow Group and consults independently on program design, evaluation, and strategic planning for foundations, nonprofits, and government agencies.  Her work emphasizes data-driven decision-making, capacity building, and cross-sector collaboration to expand access to education, health, and economic opportunity.

Previously, Annette held senior roles with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago and the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, where she led the development of regional impact strategies, managed multi-million-dollar investment portfolios, and built partnerships to align public and private resources for community outcomes. Earlier in her career, she worked for Washtenaw County, Michigan, managing federally funded community development and housing initiatives across 11 municipalities. Prior to these administrative roles, Annette worked as a direct service social worker in the areas of domestic violence, homelessness, and employment services.

Annette holds dual master’s degrees in public policy and social work from the University of Michigan, with concentrations in poverty, inequality, and mental health.

She currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband, Kerwin, and their two sons, Lucas and Cyrus, and serves on the board and as a tutor with New Haven Reads to share the joy and power of reading with local students.

Sarah’s current efforts with Aim & Arrow are focused on youth engagement and qualitative research in support of building a statewide measurement system reflecting school capacity to support student mental health. As CEO of Little Engine Consulting, Sarah leads venture philanthropy funding partnerships at breast and ovarian health nonprofit, Bright Pink.

Sarah has more than 15 years of experience in non-profit program design and strategy and a passion for helping organizations and projects in the start-up phase achieve early success while laying the groundwork for long-term impact and growth. As a founding staff member at Bright Pink, she was the national leader for design and execution of breast and ovarian health interventions for young women and helped establish systems and structures that enabled exponential organizational growth. She also served on the founding team of OneGoal – Massachusetts, a college access and success organization whose mission is to close the degree divide in America. While there, she led a range of efforts spanning school partnerships, teacher supports, and curriculum and coaching.

Sarah is proud of her origins as an organizer and a high school English Teacher within Chicago Public Schools. As a result, she understands how to work with people on the ground to lift up the perspectives of constituents in shaping real change – even within complex bureaucratic systems.

Sarah holds a BA from Columbia University and an MA in Urban Education Policy from Brown University.

With a Masters in Theatre from Northwestern University and a background spanning the arts and organizational support, Tiffany Scott brings creativity, clarity, and coordination to her role with Aim & Arrow. She provides operational support that helps keep mission-driven teams aligned and effective. Her unique blend of storytelling insight and behind-the-scenes expertise makes her a trusted partner in advancing purposeful, values-based work.