Cut Through the Noise. Build Change that Endures.
Purpose-Driven Sharpness
At Obsidian Edge, we provide global consulting services to purpose-driven, mission-aligned organizations and changemakers committed to advancing equity, resilience, and social impact.
For over two decades, we have partnered with non-profit, philanthropic, and international organizations—helping them achieve strategic clarity, organizational alignment, and values-based transformation across borders and sectors.
We operate at the cutting edge of purpose—where vision becomes action, and integrity fuels innovation. Our approach is holistic and courageous, grounded in supporting institutions to articulate and embody their impact values with clarity, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
Impact by the Numbers
Since inception, we have partnered with:
100+ foundations advancing racial, climate, housing, environmental, and economic justice
75+ nonprofit organizations committed to frontline-led solutions
Our clients work at the critical intersections of: Climate Change, Housing Justice, Food Sovereignty, Cooperative Development, Environmental Justice, Philanthropy, Political Education, Training & Facilitation
Global Reach, Local Roots
We provided strategic coaching, facilitation, and consulting for purpose-driven organizations in the U.S. and internationally on Ghana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Barbados, and Brazil.
Our clients have included mission-aligned movements, nonprofits, foundations, and cooperatives across the globe, all committed to social transformation and regenerative systems.
We take a holistic and systems-informed approach grounded in our core values:
Justice & Equity
Collective Care
Political Clarity
Spiritual Grounding
Long-Term Sustainability
We don’t just work for change—we co-create it. Whether facilitating a retreat, designing strategy, raising resources, or aligning teams, we meet clients where they are and move together toward bold, actionable visions.
Our Services
We move with joy, precision and purpose—grounded in our wellness, strategy, and systemic change.
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JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion)
Equity isn’t a checkbox—it’s a living practice. We offer assessments, trainings, and deep architecture to shift how power moves within your organization. We don’t just analyze bias—we dismantle it, co-designing cultures where justice is embodied at every level
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Coaching & Leadership Development
We coach with care and clarity. Whether you’re an emerging leader, seasoned executive, or team navigating transition, our coaching holds space for complexity. With a foundation in somatics, spirit, and strategic grounding, we support you in leading from your purpose, not your performance.
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Conflict, Wellness & Healing Trainings
Conflict is sacred when handled with care. We facilitate spaces for healing, restoration, and transformation—not avoidance. Drawing from somatics, spiritual traditions, and movement wisdom, we support organizations in navigating rupture and returning to right relationship.
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Facilitation & Retreat Design
We design gatherings that feed the soul and sharpen the vision. Whether strategic retreats, trainings, or internal convenings, we create containers rooted in justice, spiritual grounding, and collective clarity. When we gather with intention, we shift what's possible.
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Assessment & Evaluation
We treat evaluation as ritual. Our assessments are not just metrics—they’re mirrors. We help you measure what matters: alignment, impact, and healing. Through a culturally rooted and data-informed process, we surface equity gaps, movement tensions, and opportunities for transformation. The goal: strategic clarity with soul.
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Organizational Development
Your structure reflects your spirit. Whether building out nonprofit governance (C3/C4), shifting internal culture, or evolving leadership flow, we help you root your systems in justice. Designed for mighty teams with lean capacity, we offer tools to elevate collective rhythm, trust, and long-term sustainability.
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Strategic Planning & Road mapping
We don’t do cookie-cutter plans—we co-create maps for liberation. Our process bridges long-term vision with short-term alignment, translating community wisdom into action steps that adapt as the beat changes. Strategy is movement work—and we make it soulful, structured, and grounded.
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Fundraising Strategy & Network Cultivation
Resource work is spiritual work. We build fundraising strategies rooted in trust, reciprocity, and relationship—not scarcity or survival. We support grant writing, donor communications, and access to aligned networks—especially for BIPOC-led orgs that deserve to thrive, not hustle.
Our Process
Case Study
Organized and facilitated two-day “Health, Housing, Race, Equity and Power Funders Convening” in Oakland, California at the California Endowment.
130 funders and community partners engage in intersectional conversations of health, housing, race, equity, and power.
Core goals:
Funders will strategize and share practices and successes of funding the ecosystem of health and housing protections, preservation, and production solutions.
Funders will hear from leaders about local, regional, and state organizing approaches to build power and opportunity in this political moment.
Funders will build collective knowledge around institutional shifts, shared strategies, and grantmaking approaches that move forward a racial equity agenda.
Funders will understand the role of funder organizing and moving resources together for a more significant impact.
Funders will have a greater understanding that community power building and housing are social determinants to health
Over 125 participants grappled with how anti-Blackness and xenophobia fuel the complex housing & health crisis and community trauma, and heard examples of concrete organizing wins led by groups like Moms 4 Housing, Urban Habitat, Rights to the City, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and others. Organizers from across the country called on grantmakers to make substantial, long-term investments in general operating support, community ownership models, POC-led initiatives, and 501(c)(4) funding for Black, Indigenous, and communities of color. They also urged a shift in philanthropic practices toward greater alignment and collaboration to effectively move resources in response to community-defined needs.
The event was supported by The California Endowment, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Grantmakers In Health, Colorado Health Foundation, Richmond Memorial Health Foundation, Shelterforce, Ford Foundation, Northwest Health Foundation, New York Health Foundation, Missouri Foundation for Health, Kresge Foundation, and the Neighborhood Funders Group.
About Me
Nile Malloy brings nearly three decades of experience as an interdisciplinary strategist at the intersections of race, class, gender, education and the environment. His work spans nonprofit, public, philanthropic, and private sectors, advancing social, climate, and economic development initiatives locally and globally.
He has held leadership roles with the Artisan Hub, Communities for a Better Environment, California Environmental Justice Alliance, Climate Justice Alliance, Rainforest Action Network, and Neighborhood Funders Group contributing to climate policy, environmental sustainability, community development and social equity projects across the U.S., Caribbean, and Africa. Nile also partnered with philanthropic initiatives at the Neighborhood Funders Group with funders seeding multi-million-dollar collaborations to support public policy, affordable housing, climate change, and community development.
From program design and fundraising strategy to transformative coaching, we help elevate your work through tangible action steps and visionary initiatives rooted in wisdom and long-term strategy. We move with individual and collective expertise, cultural fluency, and a deep commitment to healing, transformation, care, and purposeful activation.
