Consultancy: Partnerships Lead; Bay Area)

Location: Must be based in the Bay Area, California

Working model: Remote, with regular in-person presence across the Bay Area ecosystem

Hours: 15–20 hours per week

Period: October 2026 – March 2027, with option to renew

Travel: Occasional domestic travel; one visit to Kenya anticipated

Fee: Flat monthly retainer

Start date: October 2026

Food4

Education is an award-winning, African-led nonprofit tackling classroom hunger with a locally rooted, scalable model. Building on more than a decade of learning by doing, we are powering a new school-feeding industry and sharing our blueprint to scale sustainable, nutritious and affordable school-feeding programs across Africa.
We serve over 650,000 students daily in Kenya, but what we deliver goes beyond the meal. Each plate improves nutrition, fuels learning and creates jobs that uplift entire communities. We have served more than 220 million cumulative meals since inception, growing from 25 children fed daily in 2012 to over 650,000 students every day in 2026, across 2,000+ public schools and early childhood centers.
Parents pay for meals through a mobile money system linked to NFC wristbands, which children wear and “Tap2

Eat” in under five seconds to access their meal. We are an experienced, trusted nonprofit partner that operates with the excellence of a global business, reinvesting the value we create into local economies.
Our goal is to sustainably reach 1 million students in Kenya by 2027, and at least another 2 million across Africa by 2030 through our new Center of Excellence and technical assistance arm.

The Bay Area is one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in the US, with a significant transfer of new wealth currently underway. A dense concentration of high-growth technology, venture capital and finance companies is moving through IPOs, acquisitions and other liquidity events at a scale and pace few other regions can match, creating an unusually large and fast-growing pool of newly liquid individual wealth.
Historical patterns suggest a meaningful share of that flows into charitable vehicles: in 2021, a $142 billion IPO year coincided with a 46.6% jump in contributions to donor-advised funds. Analysts project $12–32 billion in new DAF contributions from the current wave.

To establish Food4

Education as a known, credible, and well-positioned recipient of philanthropic capital within the Bay Area's wealthy donor ecosystem, by mapping the prospect landscape, generating qualified warm introductions, and building the partnership infrastructure required for F4E leadership to convert those relationships into funding.

• The money moves late
  . Charitable capital is not nonprofit revenue. DAFs pay out at roughly 25% annually, and the steepest increases in actual giving occur 12–18 months after a liquidity event, not at the IPO itself. The organizations that receive this money will be the ones already known and trusted before the window opens. Food4
  
  Education’s task in the next six months is therefore to become known, not to close gifts.
• The donors are not only founders. The larger and more accessible population is several thousand newly liquid engineers, researchers, and early employees making gifts in the $10,000–$500,000 range, often through employer matching and DAFs. This is a materially different prospecting motion from institutional foundations, and one in which F4E currently has no presence.
• F4E has an unusually strong narrative fit
  . Tap2
  
  Eat, NFC wristbands, mobile money rails and a data-instrumented supply chain feeding hundreds of thousands of children daily at a few cents per meal is an infrastructure and systems story, not a charity story. It is credible to…