HindSight Consulting, Inc.

 

ABOUT HINDSIGHT CONSULTING

Darryl LesterFounded in 2001 by Darryl Lester, HindSight Consulting is a research and development company that designs tools and services that enable people in institutions and communities to relate more strategically to their time, talent and treasure with greater freedom, power, and effectiveness to inspire greater personal, community, and institutional transformation.

In 2004, HindSight launched the Community Investment Network to provide strategic donor education for African Americans and other donors of color as well as to provide technical assistance for community philanthropists engaged in collective giving and civic engagement through giving circles. Presently there are eleven giving circles that have been organized and connected to the Community Investment Network. The work and philanthropy of Darryl Lester has been highlighted in Black Enterprise and Town and Country Magazines.

Prior to the founding of HindSight Consulting, Inc, Darryl, served as the Director of Programs at the Triangle Community Foundation; Fundraising Counsel at Capital Development Services; Program Director at North Carolina Public Allies; Assistant Dean of the Office of Student Counseling at UNC-Chapel Hill; Assistant Coordinator of African American Student Affairs at North Carolina State University; and Counselor at Shaw University.

Darryl’s civic and community involvement include, member, Next Generation Committee of the Council of Foundation; board member of the New Voices Foundation for children with severe mental and physical challenges; board member of the Center for Community Philanthropy at The Clinton School; Founder and member of the Next Generation of African American Philanthropists; African American Symposium Presenter at North Carolina State University; and former Trustee for the Warner Foundation.

The Mission

HindSight Consulting, Inc designs tools and educational programs that inspire individuals, organizations, and institutions to:

  • Develop more strategic uses of their time, talent, and treasure for community transformation.
  • Assist individual citizens and local institutions in contributing money and goods along with their time and skills, to promote the well being of others and the betterment of the community in which they live and work.
  • Invest in and celebrates human competencies and cultural traditions as assets and to foster risk-taking and creativity in tackling community problems.
  • Recognize that solutions to community problems often come from unexpected places and from people seldom included in community decision-making.
  • Utilize the following strategies and tools in working with individuals, organizations, and coalitions to transform communities.

The Meaning of the HindSight Logo

Sankofa" teaches us that we must go back to our roots in order to move forward. That is, we should reach back and gather the best of what our past has to teach us, so that we can achieve our full potential as we move forward. Whatever we have lost, forgotten, forgone or been stripped of, can be reclaimed, revived, preserved and perpetuated.