Jordan Thierry is a fundraising strategist, storyteller, and capacity builder with nearly two decades of experience helping nonprofit leaders raise more money, sharpen their message, and deepen their impact. As the Executive Director of Dream Chase Media, he has partnered with foundations, social justice organizations, and community-based nonprofits across the country — guiding them through the full arc of organizational growth, from crafting compelling fundraising narratives to designing the systems that sustain them.
Jordan's path to this work was shaped early. Growing up biracial between Portland, Oregon and Galesburg, Illinois, he learned from a young age what it means to navigate different worlds, hold multiple identities, and find belonging across lines of race, culture, and community. That experience gave him a rare capacity for empathy and cross-cultural understanding — qualities that now define his approach to working with diverse organizations and the leaders who run them.
Jordan's work sits at the intersection of communications, philanthropy, and movement-building. He has helped organizations like the Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, Feeding America, the Public Welfare Foundation, and the Schott Foundation develop and execute strategies that connect their mission to the money. Whether co-designing a $20 million grantmaking initiative, facilitating a strategic planning retreat, or coaching an emerging executive director through their first funder presentation, Jordan brings both the big-picture thinking and the practical tools that leaders need move their organization to the next level.
He understands the unique pressures nonprofit leaders face because he has lived them. As co-founder and Interim Executive Director of the Beaverton Black Parent Union, Jordan helped build a grassroots organization from the ground up, raising over $300,000 in its first two years through grants and community investment. That experience — writing the proposals, managing the funder relationships, and reporting on outcomes — informs everything he brings to his consulting work. He doesn't just advise; he knows what it takes to do the work.
