Scoping & Planning
Get a clear picture of how you hear from communities today and a practical roadmap that fits your capacity and grant cycle.
Community-centered strategy & learning
Bring community insight into the decisions that shape your funding.
Amaya Consulting & Advisory LLC helps foundations turn what they hear from communities into strategy, grantmaking, and learning.
Find your starting point15+ years across the social impact fieldImmigrant & refugee community expertiseExperience as a funder, direct service provider & intermediary
Ways to work together
Consulting services
For foundations that want to do this well but don’t have the staff time or an in-house learning team. Each offering stands on its own or combines with others, and we’ll start at a level that fits your goals, capacity, and timeline.
Insights & Learning
Hear candidly from grantees and community partners, then turn their experiences into recommendations you can use.
Grantmaking Strategy & Design
Bring community priorities into your funding goals, criteria, and learning agenda.
Participatory Grantmaking
Build a clear, supported process for community members to shape funding decisions, with clear roles and realistic time commitments.
You don’t need a perfect plan to start. We’ll find a level of community input that’s realistic for your team and build from there.
Areas of expertise
The expertise behind the work.
These strengths shape how I approach every engagement.
Immigrant & refugee communities
Insights and outreach focused on immigrant and refugee communities and the organizations that serve them.
Trust-based & equity-centered grantmaking
Design processes that reduce grantee burden and make shared decision-making practical.
Inclusive facilitation & consensus building
Facilitation for convenings, retreats, advisory committees, and board sessions, with different ways to take part.
Research, analysis & learning
Stakeholder interviews, focus groups, surveys, and clear findings briefs your team can use.
Project management
Hands-on support for grantmaking cycles, initiative launches, and projects involving multiple partners.
These areas can also be scoped as standalone support, on a limited basis as my schedule allows.
Karla Gregorio · Founder & Principal
Meet Karla
A perspective from every side of the work.
I’ve been a funder, a direct service provider, and an intermediary. Over 15+ years, I’ve seen how decisions move inside a foundation—and how they’re experienced by the people and organizations receiving funding.
I bring a cross-cultural perspective and a deep appreciation for the knowledge people bring from their own experiences. This shapes how I build relationships and design every process.
Through Amaya, I work alongside your team to build the structures that turn listening into decisions you can act on.
Karla Gregorio
FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
Experience inside foundations
I’ve led participatory grantmaking in practice, with the governance and follow-through needed to make it work.
Space for candid conversations
As an independent facilitator, I help surface perspectives partners may hesitate to share directly with a funder.
Clear findings. Practical next steps.
Careful research, inclusive facilitation, and disciplined project management connect insight to action.
Selected experience
Commitments made practical.
My experience connects community perspectives to grantmaking, strategy, and learning.
Community-shaped grantmaking
Led a participatory grantmaking initiative centered on immigrant leadership, with community participants shaping the process.
Advisory bodies with influence
Designed and facilitated community advisory bodies that embedded community expertise in funding strategy.
Learning that informs decisions
Co-developed learning and accountability systems with community partners, connecting feedback to strategy and program refinement.
Start a conversation
Let’s start a conversation.
Share what you’re working on, exchange ideas, or simply say hello.
I’d love to meet you, reconnect, and hear what’s on your mind.