About Consulting Within Reach

Who We Are:

We are a team of professionals serving organizations that are doing good. We provide both insight and actual implementation — all towards the goal of strengthening the organizational capacity behind your compelling cause.

We employ best practices honed from our professional backgrounds in settings such as Apple, Hewlett Packard, Accenture Consulting, Harvard University, and other leading organizations.

We are led by Curtis Chang, the president of a national foundation and a veteran leader of several nonprofits over a 15 year career.

Our Geographical Scope:

We tend to focus on projects located within the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including many of the outlying counties. However, we have on occasion taken projects located across the country.

Our Personality:

Our clients experience us as smart, passionate and high performing, with a healthy dose of humor mixed in. Check out How We Think to get a better feel for what we're like.

Our Rates:

Our rates are designed to provide significant discounts compared to market standards. We are accessible to even resource constrained organizations because our team is motivated by compelling causes. The good you do is our bottom line, so please contact us to get a free estimate.

Our History:

Consulting Within Reach was founded by Curtis Chang in 2007. As the Executive Director of a grantmaking agency, Curtis recognized that many of his grantees needed to develop better organizational capacity to effectively pursue their causes. At a gathering with his friends, he suddenly had an epiphany: almost all the professional skills required to address that need were right there in the room with him. Curtis put on his recruiting hat and the rest is our ongoing history…

Check out our case studies to sample what we’ve already accomplished.