We help nonprofits, foundations and the public sector learn, grow and change to build stronger, healthier, more vibrant communities. We do this by delivering innovative, knowledge-based services and solutions for our clients through:

• Community research, assessment & evaluation
• Management consulting
• Training & workshops
• Retreat & meeting facilitation

We are fueled by our investment in human capital, learning about and leveraging community assets, and engaging networks of changemakers across sectors to develop high-impact strategies that foster real community change.

Kerry Lupher is founder and principal consultant of River Road Alliance and has worked to bring positive and transformative change to nonprofit and public-sector communities across the nation for more than 18 years. As a capacity building consultant, grantmaker, impact evaluator, facilitator and trainer, Kerry has worked with hundreds of urban and rural, faith- and community-based, public and private individuals affiliated with foundations, nonprofits, governments, educational institutions and socially responsible businesses to move their change-making strategies forward. Kerry has a long, successful history of developing strategic partnerships in the public and private sector and in managing and directing multiyear capacity building initiatives funded by grantmaking foundations and the federal government. She has presented nationally on her work for the American Evaluation Association, the American Society on Aging, Community Food Security Coalition, Grantmakers for Education, and the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, among others.



Kerry has served on countless community boards, committees and task forces that have inspired her passion to help grassroots changemakers transform their world. Kerry has a B.A. in communications from Millikin University and a Masters of Social Work from the University of Denver. She has completed doctoral coursework in quantitative and qualitative research, statistics and theory, and she has specialized training in strategic planning, focus group moderation, facilitation methods and evaluation.



Kerry brings passion, integrity, innovation and grit to all her work. She is known by her friends for being “freakishly strong” and by her colleagues as a sincere and inspired leader. Kerry loves to get her hands dirty, putting in “sweat equity” with grassroots changemakers to build social capital, improve impact and ultimately change the world.

Born on a farm in the Mississippi Delta, Kerry now resides in Southern California and volunteers with Operation Homefront. Want to get to know Kerry?  kerry@riverroadalliance.com