Why Sarafina
We meet our clients where they are, working with you to create a pathway forward. We will invest our resources early in ensuring that we provide you with exactly what you need. Our method of work is participatory and with plenty of communication.
Trust
We promise to maintain confidentiality, provide objective counsel and help you achieve your philanthropic goals. We are your trusted advisors.
Integrity
With a goal to provide advisement that moves the world forward. Our team operates with the highest level of integrity and professionalism.
Results
We deliver products that are of the highest caliber, ensuring that you meet and exceed your goals for making an impact.
Innovation
We aren’t afraid to think outside the box. We will work towards solutions to meet your needs, that may be unique and novel.
The Sarafina Group, Inc.
After working in the nonprofit sector for twenty-five years, Audrey knew that she wanted to show up differently. To have the ability to reach more people, providing guidance and leadership that resulted in positive change. And, so, it was with a huge leap of faith, a big stretch, that The Sarafina Group, Inc was created. I'm passionate about many issues. And I'm passionate about service. We help to make a difference in the lives of others guided by values and skills that we hold close and live by. Love. Community. Integrity. Humility. Justice. Equity. After working with many people over the years, in many different situations — we’ve found the best approach is through being authentic, seeking first to understand, listening, and developing deep relationships. It is in this spirit that The Sarafina Group, a bright shining star -- offers its services to you, to make the world a better place, one person, one family, one organization at a time. Thank you for trusting us to take this journey with you.
Meet Our Founder
Audrey Jacobs, Principal
Audrey is the founder and principal of The Sarafina Group, Inc., an organization providing consultation services to philanthropic and non-profit organizations.
Audrey was most recently the Director of the Center for Family Philanthropy at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. For the past eleven years, Audrey worked with a team to engage individual philanthropists and families in philanthropy. As a philanthropic advisor, Audrey worked with philanthropists and families in developing and implementing strategic philanthropic plans, including succession planning, fund development, next generation involvement, legacy planning, gift planning, along with program development and evaluation.
With more than twenty years of experience in the non-profit sector, Audrey helps non-profits fulfill their mission by helping with fund development, strategic planning and Board development. Audrey worked with several organizations in New York City, including Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, and the New York Women's Foundation.
Audrey is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta, is a former member and immediate past president of the Emory University Board of Visitors.
Audrey received her undergraduate degree from Barnard College, Columbia University; and a juris doctorate degree from New York University School of Law. Audrey resides in Sandy Springs, Georgia, with her husband, Roland Matthews, MD and two young adult sons (1 son graduated college now. 1 is about to graduate-- who knows if they'll return home!!!).
What is Sarafina?
Sarafina means "bright star" in Swahili.
We are operating in times now unlike any before in our lifetime. Racial Reckoning. Global Pandemic. A recognition that systemic racism and structural racism exist in the United States.
The Sarafina group is that guiding light whose mission is to help people who want to make positive change, particularly in philanthropy. We are here to help you solve the challenges before you using a racial equity lens.
Who We Serve
We work with a variety of individuals and organizations at all points during their philanthropic journey.
• Foundations
• Philanthropists of all ages and spaces
• Non-profit Organizations
• Collaboratives, including Donor Networks and Giving Circles
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Audrey masterfully enabled us as a family to articulate our deepest values and to apply these principles to our giving in a meaningful way.
- DeDe Engsberg
Let’s Work Together
We’d love to learn more about you. Reach out to start a conversation so we can learn more about how we may be able to provide assistance with your philanthropic needs.
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