NC Strategies is a consulting firm founded by Nahtahna Cabanes, a macro-social worker with more than a decade of nonprofit experience. She created NC Strategies after seeing a gap in consulting services that often ignores the human element to much project-based work. NC Strategies seeks to apply social work principles to project-level consulting in strategic planning, research and evaluation, and program design.

This means that in working with NC Strategies your team will get a:

People-Centered Approach focusing on the strengths, values, and goals of your organization and the communities it seeks to serve.

Holistic Lens that seeks to understand the social, emotional, economic, and cultural factors that can affect the success of program design.

Principles of Social Justice that will work to ensure program design promotes social well-being.

A Social Work Lens

Nahtahna Cabanes has dedicated her personal and professional life to advancing equity through education, advocacy, and nonprofit programming. Her passion and experience have brought her to explore how to utilize funding and program design to optimize social impact. She has designed and secured funding for environmental and homeless advocacy workshops, social connections call programs, COVID emergency response community check-ins, job skills development programs, and youth agency collaboratives.

Throughout, Ms. Cabanes has had a proven track record of success, restructuring failing programs and aligning broad agency vision with real-life outcomes. While at CASA of Los Angeles, she increased foster youth advocacy applications by 75%. As the Director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, she grew membership by 500%. In her role as the V.P. of Strategic Partnerships at L.A. Works, she helped to double the annual budget through government engagement, program development, and corporate fundraising.

She served as City Commissioner on the Los Angeles Police Permit Review Panel, to review granting, denying, or revoking of permits for businesses seeking to operate within the city's boundaries. She successfully advocated for 120 units of permanent housing in her neighborhood. Ms. Cabanes currently sits on the Board of the Ridley Foundation, which prioritizes funding for education centers in Santa Barbara, and is former Chair of Los Angeles City Council District 4 Discretionary Fund Committee, which made recommendations for the use of city funding for the areas of Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, Silver Lake and Los Feliz.

Ms. Cabanes currently is spending time in Brisbane, Australia, investigating the nonprofit environment in spaces with strong social safety nets. She maintains work in Los Angeles. Wearing multiple professional hats has enabled Ms. Cabanes to acquire a distinct skillset that marries the empathy of the human experience with an analytic understanding of the complex systems that impact that experience.