About Us

Arabella’s History

Arabella Advisors helps philanthropists and investors find innovative ways to maximize the impact of their resources.

Eric Kessler founded Arabella in 2005 to provide strategic guidance for effective philanthropy. In the years since, we have evolved to help clients use all their resources – grants, investments, reputation, and time – to make the world a better place. We have grown to a team of more than 70 people across four cities, and provide research, strategies, and management to help clients make a difference in the issues that matter most to them.

Arabella’s commitment to diversity

At Arabella, embracing diversity means learning from one another and learning from our partners in inclusive and equitable ways in order to better achieve our goals as a firm.

As we strive to make philanthropy work better for our clients, we want to make our workplace one that welcomes both partners and employees, where everyone has the opportunity to learn, grow, and be challenged.

We invite our employees and clients to be themselves, reflecting the variety of experiences, backgrounds, characteristics, and influences that embody Arabellans, individually and collectively. We will create a firm that is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of races, ethnicities, national origins, ages, sexual orientation, gender identity, beliefs, religions, faiths and ideologies, cultures, socio-economic backgrounds and levels of physical ability.

By integrating diversity, equity and inclusion more fully into the way we work at Arabella, we will benefit from increased learning, creativity, flexibility, and organizational and individual growth. We will be better able to adapt to changing markets, respond to client and partner needs, and develop more effective business practices.