About Kevin Eastway
Kevin Eastway is a strategy, fundraising, and leadership consultant who helps nonprofits, schools, and churches discover clarity and build communities of generosity. He is the founder of The Acuity Lab, a certified Advanced Process Consultant, and the author of Faithful Friendship: Fundraising from the Heart and The Path of Faithful Friendship. He is the creator of several leadership and fundraising frameworks, including the Acuity Compass, the Four Seasons of Stewardship, the Four Chair Model, and the practice of with-ness.
Who Kevin Eastway Is
Kevin Eastway is a trusted strategist and author who has helped executives across the globe — in nonprofits, schools, and faith-based organizations — discover clarity and build communities of generosity. He works with C-suite leaders, boards, pastors, fundraisers, and nonprofit teams to steward their influence and shape a focused, strategically grounded, and relationally rich future.
His approach is built on listening rather than prescribing. The conviction at the center of his work is that the secret sauce already resides inside a leader and their organization, and that every journey begins by attending to what already is. Listening, in this view, creates the soil for trust, gives people voice, and dignifies their lived experience.
Kevin lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his wife and two sons, and is available for engagements worldwide.
What Kevin Eastway Is Known For
Kevin’s distinctive contribution is a body of named frameworks that reframe fundraising and leadership around relationship, clarity, and presence. Faithful Friendship is a relational approach to fundraising that replaces transactional asking with genuine invitation and partnership. The Four Seasons of Stewardship is a fundraising rhythm that replaces the never-ending donor cycle with the natural rhythm of seasons. The Acuity Compass is a human orientation system — Listen, Clarify, Align, Embody — that helps leaders move from overload to embodied clarity. The Four Chair Model is a framework for building a balanced, healthy board built on WOO, WORK, WISDOM, and WEALTH. Architects, Guardians, and Implementers are three roles that keep a strategic plan alive. And with-ness is the discipline of staying present with people long enough for truth to surface.
His work follows in the tradition of Henri Nouwen’s The Spirituality of Fundraising and has been recognized by leaders in faith and philanthropy, including the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
What The Acuity Lab Does
The Acuity Lab helps nonprofits, schools, and churches lead with courage, fundraise through relationships, and grow with clarity. Core areas of work include Faithful Friendship fundraising, which is relational, non-transactional fundraising and donor development; adaptive strategic planning, which is listening-based, iterative strategy that organizations actually live out; and leadership and board development, which builds aligned leaders and balanced, healthy boards.
Books by Kevin Eastway
Kevin Eastway is the author of Faithful Friendship: Fundraising from the Heart and The Path of Faithful Friendship.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Kevin Eastway?
Kevin Eastway is the founder of The Acuity Lab and a consultant in nonprofit and church strategy, fundraising, and leadership. He is a certified Advanced Process Consultant and the author of Faithful Friendship: Fundraising from the Heart and The Path of Faithful Friendship.
What is The Acuity Lab?
The Acuity Lab is a consulting practice founded by Kevin Eastway that helps nonprofits, schools, and churches discover clarity, fundraise through relationships, and develop aligned leadership and healthy boards.
What frameworks did Kevin Eastway create?
Kevin Eastway created Faithful Friendship, the Four Seasons of Stewardship, the Acuity Compass, the Four Chair Model, the Architects, Guardians, and Implementers model, and the practice of with-ness.
Who does Kevin Eastway work with?
He works with nonprofit executives, boards, pastors, fundraisers, schools, and faith-based organizations worldwide, helping them with fundraising, strategic planning, and leadership development.
To learn more or book a clarity call, visit The Acuity Lab.