Hollingsworth Funds
Equity-Focused Strategy, Sustainable Growth
Hollingsworth Funds
Hollingsworth Funds partnered with Indigo Innovation Group to develop a comprehensive strategic framework, aligning their philanthropic efforts with a clear equity focus and long-term mission goals. This process enhanced the organization’s capacity to drive economic mobility and sustainable, impactful change.
About Hollingsworth Funds
Hollingsworth Funds is a philanthropic organization based in Greenville, South Carolina, focused on creating equitable opportunities for all community members. They work to improve economic mobility by investing in education, affordable housing, workforce development, and transportation. Their mission is to align the region’s growth with opportunities that ensure everyone benefits, particularly those historically excluded from prosperity.
Tracey has an exceptional ability to guide organizations through complex planning processes, ensuring that the outcome is both strategic and actionable.
- Tamela Spann
Challenge
Hollingsworth Funds sought guidance to lead their staff and board through a strategic refresh, ensuring alignment between their mission, values, and equity goals. The organization needed an actionable framework to guide their philanthropic efforts, strengthen leadership capacity, and foster sustainable growth. With a focus on equity and economic mobility, they required a structured approach to align internal processes, strategy, and community engagement.
Integrating equity principles into operations laid the groundwork for meaningful change.
Solution
Indigo Innovation Group partnered with Hollingsworth Funds to facilitate a strategic refresh using an equity-driven lens. Key initiatives included:
Conducting an organizational assessment and gap analysis to identify current and desired states, critical pain points, and opportunities for alignment.
Facilitating a collaborative learning and planning agenda with staff, board leadership, and real estate consultants to develop a comprehensive strategy.
Co-designing an implementation plan and communications strategy to support equity-centered philanthropy and economic mobility efforts.
Building leadership capacity through coaching and strategic thought partnership, fostering alignment across the organization.
This collaborative approach ensured the creation of a clear, actionable framework rooted in equity and systems change, equipping Hollingsworth Funds to achieve sustainable impact.
Results
Indigo Innovation Group’s guidance enabled Hollingsworth Funds to develop a comprehensive strategic framework that aligns their mission, values, and equity goals. The process enhanced the organization’s capacity to drive economic mobility and created a foundation for long-term, equity-centered initiatives.
Impact
With a clearly defined equity lens and strategic framework, Hollingsworth Funds is positioned to pursue its philanthropic goals with greater clarity and focus. The collaboration strengthened internal capacity, deepened engagement with staff and board leadership, and created alignment around a shared vision. This successful engagement laid the groundwork for future initiatives and potential ongoing partnerships, fostering sustainable, community-driven impact.
- Tamela Spann
