Alexis Trost

Consultant, RALT

Trost Strategies | Nonprofit Strategy & Development Consulting

Alexis Trost, Founder and Principal of Trost Strategies, blends her passion for effective and thoughtful nonprofit management with a deep understanding of start-up and scaling nonprofit organizations. She worked alongside the steering committee to help implement their vision and launch what is now the Raleigh Area Land Trust. Since 2018, she has provided strategic and fundraising support to build RALT’s organizational infrastructure and secure almost $11 million in combined philanthropic, government, and financing to seed Wake County’s first community land trust programs.

After serving as the first Executive Director of a community-based nonprofit focused on empowering emerging leaders in the social sector, she launched Trost Strategies to provide the services she wished she had—strategic advice paired with flexible, tailored, and hands-on support where nonprofits need it most. She brings her skills in organizational development, fundraising, strategic planning, and operations management to support each client's diverse needs. For the past 15 years, she has partnered with nonprofits, philanthropists, community leaders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to make an impact in their communities.

She is passionate about building pathways for emerging community leaders, impacting systemic inequalities and racial equity, and cultivating new approaches to philanthropy.