Meet Josh Allred

Meet
JOSH ALLRED

Nonprofit Consultant
Writer
Impresario
Ruckus Maker
What I Do
Josh founded Linchpin Advisory to help mission-driven organizations solve the gap between intention and execution. Most nonprofits know what they need to do. The challenge is building the capacity to actually do it. Josh works with organizations across three areas:

Development & Fundraising
Design campaigns across the donor lifecycle—annual giving, major gifts ($5K-$50K+), capital campaigns ($50K-$100K+), and end-of-year strategies. Build donor pipelines through cultivation, stewardship, and recognition programs that leverage meaningful touchpoints with individual donors, foundations, corporations, and state/government funders.

Strategic Planning
Conduct Needs Assessments, develop multi-year fundraising strategies, and create board development frameworks. Guide organizations through revenue diversification, including foundation grants, corporate partnerships (Community Reinvestment Act), and constituent engagement.

Operations & Management
Provide interim executive leadership, recruit board members as fundraisers and friendraisers, and build organizational infrastructure—grant lifecycles (Letter of Intent through reporting), CRM systems, and deliverables (impact reports, newsletters) that demonstrate results.

The approach is straightforward: meet organizations where they are, not where they wish they were. Build infrastructure that functions independently. Create sustainable growth, not consultant dependency. Whether launching pilot programs, cultivating donor pipelines, or recruiting boards that actually contribute—Josh focuses on solutions that outlast the engagement. He's raised over $1M for programs, navigated complex stakeholder partnerships, and built systems from concept to impact. He knows what it takes to translate mission into measurable results.
Sustainable impact requires sustainable infrastructure. Josh builds capacity, not dependency.
Josh is the creator and chief architect of the nonprofit Pivot Adventure, which provides resiliency training courses for teens (and their families) struggling with depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation.
Josh started this nonprofit to make a dent in the teen mental health industry, where access and costs have gotten out of hand. Josh raised over a million dollars without a marketing budget to help over a thousand teens who struggle with depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation participate in a Resiliency Training Course, which he designed. Graduates from this 8-week course reported improvements in connectedness, happiness, perseverance, optimism, and engagement. In addition, Josh has run many workshops for thousands of teens in residential treatment programs, adults in rehab, and multiple school district leadership teams to help change their narrative about themselves and how they see the world.
Media
A selection of talks, videos, podcasts, interviews, and editorials I've been involved with:

TedxSalt Lake City
Community Ambassador's
Award
Emotional Intellegence
Nuria's Mastermind Podcast
Fly higher
Summit Speaker Series
Fear will never go away
Hope on the Hill Speach
Inner Resiliency
Dreamer's Foundation Fundraiser
Ignore the loon noises
Introducing Pivot Adventure
Innovation
1 Million Cups Presentation
Cultivating resiliency
Eccovia Solutions Publication
Teen mental health
Eccovia Solutions Publication
Publications
A selection of blogs and e-books I've written:

JoshAllred.blog
10 years of daily blog posts of breaking false limits and leveling up.
How Far Will You Go?
This free eBook, written in collaboration with the talented artist Caleb Ceran, was written during the pandemic to inspire families we were helping with Pivot Adventure.
Where Are You Going To Put The Tired?
Josh's workbook for Pivot Adventure is now available for free online to download.
Breaking Dogma
Josh is currently 250 pages into his first book about breaking the false limits humans put on themselves.
SLUG Magazine
Josh is a contributing writer for SLUG Magazone.
Goodreads
Josh is also an avid reader; you can follow along with what he reads on Goodreads.
Past Projects

Utah Valley University
Risk Management Evaluation & Speaker
Evaluating classes and their effectiveness for Outdoor Recreation Management students. Josh has also been invited to speak to the senior graduating class several times to discuss the recreation and nonprofit sector.
Canyons School District
Speaking Engagement & Workshop
Hired to speak to the Student Wellness Leadership Team and help the department generate new innovative policies that would positively affect 35,000 students in their district.
Midvale City
Development
In conjunction with the Mayor's office, Josh created the city's first recreation department.
American Foundation of Suicide Prevention
Speaking Engagement
Invited to speak to teens and their parents in an online mental health education course.
Hi there. If you have questions or want to chat, email me at:
jallred22@gmail.com

MeetJOSH ALLRED

Nonprofit ConsultantWriterImpresarioRuckus Maker

What I DoJosh founded Linchpin Advisory to help mission-driven organizations solve the gap between intention and execution. Most nonprofits know what they need to do. The challenge is building the capacity to actually do it. Josh works with organizations across three areas:

Development & Fundraising

Strategic Planning

Operations & Management

Josh is the creator and chief architect of the nonprofit Pivot Adventure, which provides resiliency training courses for teens (and their families) struggling with depression, anxiety, and suicide ideation.

Media

A selection of talks, videos, podcasts, interviews, and editorials I've been involved with:

TedxSalt Lake City

Community Ambassador'sAward

Emotional Intellegence

Nuria's Mastermind Podcast

Fly higher

Summit Speaker Series

Fear will never go away

Hope on the Hill Speach

Inner Resiliency

Dreamer's Foundation Fundraiser

Ignore the loon noises

Introducing Pivot Adventure

Innovation

1 Million Cups Presentation

Cultivating resiliency

Eccovia Solutions Publication

Teen mental health

Eccovia Solutions Publication

Publications

A selection of blogs and e-books I've written:

JoshAllred.blog

10 years of daily blog posts of breaking false limits and leveling up.

How Far Will You Go?

This free eBook, written in collaboration with the talented artist Caleb Ceran, was written during the pandemic to inspire families we were helping with Pivot Adventure.

Where Are You Going To Put The Tired?

Josh's workbook for Pivot Adventure is now available for free online to download.

Breaking Dogma

Josh is currently 250 pages into his first book about breaking the false limits humans put on themselves.

SLUG Magazine

Josh is a contributing writer for SLUG Magazone.

Goodreads

Josh is also an avid reader; you can follow along with what he reads on Goodreads.

Past Projects

Utah Valley University

Risk Management Evaluation & Speaker

Canyons School District

Speaking Engagement & Workshop

Midvale City

Development

American Foundation of Suicide Prevention

Speaking Engagement

Hi there. If you have questions or want to chat, email me at:

jallred22@gmail.com

Meet
JOSH ALLRED

Nonprofit Consultant
Writer
Impresario
Ruckus Maker

What I Do
Josh founded Linchpin Advisory to help mission-driven organizations solve the gap between intention and execution. Most nonprofits know what they need to do. The challenge is building the capacity to actually do it. Josh works with organizations across three areas:

Community Ambassador's
Award