Brooks Pacific Consulting
management and communication services for nonprofits and mission-driven businesses.
Services
Management
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Carmille is an experienced executive and can serve in the following roles in an interim and/or fractional capacity.
• Executive Director and CEO to oversee your organization’s operations, activities, and staff
• Chief of Staff to supplement CEO and executive team’s capabilities
• Project Manager and Program Manager to oversee administration and evaluation of programming or product design and delivery
• Creative Director and Marketing Director to oversee the execution of marketing and communication endeavors -
We will work closely with your staff to plan, develop, implement and evaluate effective programs and organizational systems and processes; establish procedures for developing, implementing and evaluating goals and objectives for the client’s expenditures; oversee contracts, memoranda, and regulatory compliance of business operations.
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Brooks Pacific Group will develop the strategic direction and execution of the client’s public affairs, marketing/communications, public policy, and advocacy efforts. We may also oversee the formation and prioritization process of public policy efforts through a multi-stakeholder process.
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At this time, we have narrowed our Capacity Building portfolio to providing clients with high-touch grant support.
• Grant writing: includes research, writing, and assembling of grant proposals, materials, and reports to foundations and other grant-making organizations identified by the client.
• Grants management: includes the management and administration of grants, including preparing and submitting grant reports, coordinating with staff to ensure funder regulatory compliance, auditing grant compliance, and tracking report-related deadlines.
• Prospect research: identify potential private and public funding sources
Strategy
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Business strategy consulting involves the close collaboration of the consultant with the organization’s leaders to assess how your company’s leadership, staffing, and capacity supports your business objectives and program profitability.
Together, we will explore the broadest and most pressing issues that impact your organization’s profitability, functionality, and execution of business objectives. We will help you adapt to changing market conditions and maintain a competitive edge, envision new business opportunities, shape your strategic plan, and/or identify ways to renew your business plan to keep your organization viable.
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Half-day and full-day strategic planning services can help your team align toward achieving your organization’s goals and mission. We will work with you to plan this session and act as a facilitator during your strategic planning meeting.
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We’ll work with your leadership and staff on supplemental plans, including:
• communication plans (includes crisis communications, campaigns, and more)
• fundraising/development plans
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We will help you execute your big-picture program ideas by working with you to develop mission-based goals, support your company’s objectives, and identify & produce measurable results.
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We’ll research and identify political, cultural, and economic opportunities for market entry. This option helps clients identify potential areas of risk for market entry.
Visual Design & Communications
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for marketing materials, technical reports, and briefings
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for booklets, event programs and invitations, signage, and more
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for social media, e-newsletters, websites, and web-based invitations.
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on Squarespace and Wix.
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light and heavy editing and retouching available for event and headshot photographs.
Leadership
Carmille Lim
Owner,
Principal Consultant
Carmille Lim is principal consultant with specialties in strategy and communications. She is a seasoned nonprofit executive with 360° nonprofit management experience, inclusive of program design, government relations, public policy analysis, media relations, fundraising and capacity building, and organizational development.
She recently served as the Vice President and Managing Director of the Pacific Council on International Policy– the West Coast’s largest international affairs membership organization– where she oversaw the organization’s thought leadership departments and built up its Public Diplomacy programs. Before this, Carmille served as Executive Director of Common Cause Hawaii, overseeing the state chapter’s lobbying, fundraising, and community outreach activities and leading advocacy efforts to pass Election Day Registration and Vote-by-Mail in Hawaii. Carmille earned her Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan, where she focused on international trade and finance. A Los Angeles transplant, she calls Seattle and Honolulu home and launched Brooks Pacific Consulting in funky Venice, California.
She founded her first consulting venture over a decade ago– a communications initiative that offered public relations, social media, and design services, with politics, advocacy, wellness, and fashion as her niche markets. Carmille also owns Woof & BOOP, an online dog boutique that sells functional, high-quality dog accessories and apparel.
Carmille is passionate about building effective purpose-oriented institutions that last and amplifying mission-based stories.
Recognition
• CAUSE Leadership Institute Fellow, 2019
• Hawaii State Commissioner, 2011 - 2015
• Hawaii State Legislature: Certificate of Recognition for “contributions to the community” and “work ethic,” 2015
• Hawaii Business Magazine, 20 for the Next 20, 2014
• Women’s Media Center: Media & Leadership program participant, 2014
• Pacific Business News, Forty Under 40, 2012
Omair Khan
Senior Consultant,
Data Science
Jen Faust
Senior Consultant
Omair Khan is an insights-focused data scientist. He is an expert in causal inference, data visualization, and building machine learning models to solve business problems. He frequently uses Python, SQL, and Tableau in his work.
Omair has gained these skills over a ten-year-long career in the technology and national security research sectors. Previous appointments include serving as:
Product Analyst at the exercise tracker and social app Strava
Research Associate with the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
Assistant Policy Researcher at the RAND Corporation; and
Data Analyst with the marketing email marketing platform MailChimp.
Omair holds an M.P.P. from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in economics from Georgia State University. He served on the Alumni Board for the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy from 2020-2022.
Jen Faust is an experienced executive who possesses a deep understanding of how to grow a business as both a CEO and CFO. She specializes in helping social enterprises evolve into more effective generators for meaningful programmatic impact.
Jen's CFO insights make her an asset in any executive or programmatic role. She has more than 10+ years of financial management experience advising companies and has served at the helm of multiple companies as ED/CFO and CEO/CFO. With in-depth skills in strategic and business planning, accounting and financial analysis, and reporting, Jen is particularly adept at leading companies through strategic change efforts toward scale and sustainable growth.
Apart from her C-suite experience, Jen has a broad background in government, legal, public policy, and public affairs. She is a vocal equity advocate and frequent commentator on girls' and women's rights and equity issues. She serves on the board of the Women Connect4Good and has volunteered on missions for multilateral economic development agencies: the Organization of American States (OAS), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the United Nations (UN) to help with women’s political participation in elections worldwide.
Jen is a skilled executive presenter with extensive experience leading public discourse on present-day and over-the-horizon socio-economic challenges. She holds an M.Sc. in Political Economy, with a focus on Democracy Studies, from the London School of Politics and Economics, as well as a degree in business from George Washington University. She is additionally trained in crisis communications and executive coaching.
Jen is a polyglot who has lived and worked in the Global South and on all but two continents in the world.
Past clients
foreign policy membership organization
geopolitical intelligence firm
volunteer-run global membership organization
Los Angeles-based holistic health practicioner
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