Strategy is Personal Here.

We are a small, but mighty team. Full of executive-level professionals who are experts in our own field of work.

Senior Expertise. Every Engagement.

We are there every step of the way. We work across sectors including youth development, gender equity, racial justice, and entrepreneurship, with clients across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

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Rashida Petersen

CEO & Founder
Rashida Petersen is a senior development professional and thought leader who is committed to fostering a culture of philanthropy within nonprofit organizations. Ms. Petersen’s 20-year career has been built on expertise gained from leading major fundraising and development initiatives in the Global South as well as expanding U.S. trade and investment.

Working within the development departments of nonprofits, she has been responsible for annual funding goals of over $16 million in institutional funding and over $1.3 million annually in unrestricted sponsorship dollars. Ms. Petersen is the CEO and Founder of 1847 Philanthropic, a small full-service fundraising consulting firm. In 2024, Ms. Petersen raised over $25 million for clients in the United States. Notable client engagements include: Global Fund for Women, Obama Foundation, and Mastercard Foundation.

Meet Our Team

Meghann Shutt

Senior Consultant

Core Competencies

Fundraising · Organizational development · Grant writing · Public sector consulting · Storytelling · Training & facilitation

Meghann Shutt is a fundraising and organizational development consultant with twenty years of experience working with and for nonprofit and public organizations to achieve their missions. She started her own consultancy in 2019, and has raised over $15m in grants and contracts for small nonprofits and local public agencies. Meghann's approach to fundraising involves teaming with organizations to understand their strengths and challenges, leveraging the unique assets of the group, and adding concrete strategies, structures, and processes to big ideas that help improve our world. She approaches grant writing as storytelling and seeks to use the language and perspectives of the people doing the work to tell those stories. She is passionate about building communities up and tearing systems down in her narratives, and enjoys championing the work of our community's big-hearted doers. Additionally, she loves developing new talent, and teaches a graduate-level grant proposal writing course in the Community Leadership Development program at UMBC.

Meghann holds a B.A. in Sociology from New College of Florida and a Master’s of Public Policy from UMBC. She holds several professional certificates in both group facilitation and Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the workplace. She has a decade of experience in the training/learning space. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan (2006–08) and is conversational in Kyrgyz and Spanish. Meghann is based in her beloved hometown of Baltimore.

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Omolola Adele-Oso

Senior Consultant · US / Nigeria

Skill Focus Areas

Program strategy · Organizational development · Stakeholder engagement · Compliance · Nonprofit capacity-building

Omolola Adele-Oso is a strategic program and organizational development expert with over 23 years of experience driving impact across the architecture, nonprofit, philanthropic, and information technology sectors. She specializes in designing and executing mission-driven programs and initiatives, integrating strategy, and stakeholder engagement to create sustainable solutions. With a background spanning architecture, program management, regulatory compliance, and digital innovation, she has successfully led multimillion-dollar projects and developed systems that enhance transparency and organizational efficiency.

Omolola works with organizations to identify their strengths, refine operational structures, and implement concrete strategies that bring bold ideas to life. She sees program development as a form of storytelling, using data and real-world narratives to champion changemakers and amplify their work. Passionate about the intersection of culture, equity, and development, she integrates technology and human-centered design to create inclusive and impactful solutions.

Omolola holds a Master of Science in Organization Development from American University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard University. She splits her time between the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and Nigeria.

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Emmet Murphy

Fundraising Strategist and Advisor

Emmet Murphy is a fundraising strategist and advisor with 25+ years

Emmet Murphy is a fundraising strategist and advisor with 25+ years of experience helping nonprofits and development organizations secure major funding and deliver high-impact programs. He has mobilized over $350 million in funding through successful proposals, donor engagement strategies, and program design.

He has led large, donor-funded initiatives across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, managing teams of over 200 staff and overseeing complex, multi-million-dollar programs in partnership with organizations such as Land O’Lakes Venture37, Creative Associates, and ACDI/VOCA.

As founder of Nile Point, Emmet advised NGOs on proposal development, implementation strategy and created web and mobile applications to track metrics to measure impact. He currently supports agtech startups in California and prepares fundraising assessments and proposals for 1847 Philanthropic clients.