How Can I Bolster Your Mission?
Program Expansion Services
Fractional Program Officer and Program Director support to hold or grow existing bodies of work.
Multi-Entity Capacity Building
Help building out new 501c4 programs from an infrastrcuture, fundraising, and program-alignment lens. Help building out capacity-building programs for c3 and c4 grantees.
Issue-Area Landscaping and Impact Studies
Issue-Area Landscaping and Impact Studies
Issue-Area Landscaping and Impact Studies
Lead landscaping of new issue areas for grantmaking or do look-backs of existing work to assess impact through research, interviews, and writing.
Donor Advising
Issue-Area Landscaping and Impact Studies
Issue-Area Landscaping and Impact Studies
Help translating values and curiosities into actionable new grantmaking plans for new donors.
Hi. I'm Chhandasi.
I'm Chhandasi Pandya Patel. I started Bolster to serve as a bridge between grassroots movements advancing social justice and philanthropy.
I draw from a deep philanthropic bench, which includes launching and running grantmaking programs across a variety of issue areas, working with institutional donors to run pool funds, and working with philanthropic leadership to imagine new impact areas.
My core values of justice, partnership, humility, curiosity, and integrity guide how I show up in all areas of my work, from working with grantee organizations as a fractional program officer or director, to interviewing organizational leaders during an impact analysis, or working with new donors to help them translate their own values into new grants.
