Values-Driven Consulting

A woman with long brown hair, glasses, and earrings, smiling against an orange background.

Bringing expertise and compassion.

Natalie Bridgeman Fields is a senior consultant and philanthropic advisor dedicated to advancing justice-driven philanthropic missions. Natalie’s clients include individual donors, family offices, foundations, and institutions.

Natalie’s experience across sectors enriches the effectiveness of the values-driven services she offers her clients. Her collaborations draw on her three decades in the international human rights, climate, environment, development, and justice realms as a lawyer, consultant, award-winning social entrepreneur, executive director, public speaker, author, and educator.

She grounds her partnerships in respect, rigor, a focus on clarity and impact, and a commitment to the principles of trust-based philanthropy.

Learn More About Natalie

Colorful topographic map with detailed elevation features in shades of beige, orange, brown, and teal.

Your Partner in Justice-Centered Philanthropy

Natalie serves as a partner to individual philanthropists, family offices, and foundations seeking to sharpen and communicate their justice-focused impact, build coalitions of support, and ensure their portfolios do no harm.

With 30 years of feet-on-the-ground experience spanning every world region—from work with Indigenous Peoples and grassroots movements on human rights and environmental issues to shaping accountability at international institutions—she brings unparalleled rigor and a commitment to the principles of trust-based philanthropy.

Natalie operates at the intersection of respect, clarity, and impact, ensuring that your giving is as effective as it is ethical.

Strategy consulting: supporting clients to maximize impact by clarifying goals and articulating strategies to achieve them.
Coalition-building: supporting clients’ organizing to increase interest-aligned formal and informal donor collaboration.
‘Do No Harm’ Risk reviews: evaluation of philanthropic or mission investing portfolios to explore and address potential risk of harm, with a focus on risks in Global Majority nations.
Other bespoke consulting support, including research, due diligence, good governance, and assistance with high-stakes meetings and convenings.
Natalie’s writing on mission investing and risk: SSIR | Devex | Stanford Law School Blog
Key Message Communications: supporting clients to reach audiences with key messages, and communicate in clear, compelling, and inspiring ways.
Technical Communications: specializing in both internal and external communications through developing communications strategy and tracking tools, drafting, writing, and communications training.
External communications support may include communications with the public, peers, grantees, or the press.
Natalie’s writing and press | Natalie’s speaking and teaching