About
Inspiration
The inspiration behind our name is the children’s story The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. One of the central themes of this story is making one’s dreams a reality.
That’s what we hope to do for our clients – we want to help bring your mission and vision to life by plugging in where you need us most.
What does Big Orange Splot do?
Big Orange Splot provides change management, strategic planning, collaborative facilitation, and management expertise to organizations striving to create a better world for children and families.
We tailor our deliverables to your needs, your goals, your budget – offering efficient, high-quality, highest-impact solutions that enable you to take your organization to the next level.
Our Approach
Bridging visionary strategy with operational acumen to achieve transformative results
Bridging Strategy & Operations: All too often, organizations’ impact suffers because their strategic plans gather dust on the sidelines when the time comes to take action. Other times, the strategic plan was not developed in a way that nurtures successful implementation from the get-go. Our sweet spot is the intersection of strategy and operations – making sure you are set up with bold and implementable ideas, a clear path forward, and the right support to stay on track with your vision even when unexpected bumps may require operational pivots.
Responsive, Tailored Services: Having experience both leading and providing consultation for programs, we know the powerful impact that tailored consulting services can bring to organizations and the individuals they serve: opening pathways to better outcomes, unlocking doors to new resources, and establishing the right infrastructure for long-term success. At Big Orange Splot, we realize dramatic changes in how organizations support family strength by plugging in efficiently and powerfully in response to our clients’ needs.
Superlative Stakeholder Engagement: We understand that nobody works in a vacuum, and everyone’s time is valuable, so we come to the table humbly to plug in our complementary expertise to move winning projects. We understand that your time is valuable, and that nobody works in a vacuum, so we infuse each project with stakeholder engagement methods that are efficient and highest quality. This way, we are together able to achieve monumental impact for children and families.
Nonprofit & Social Enterprise Expertise
Big Orange Splot, LLC, offers a full portfolio of organizational support to nonprofit and philanthropic entities working to realize a better world for our children and families.
We have extensive and broad experience in all things child and family related — child welfare, early childhood development, parent engagement, and beyond.
Our technical expertise includes leading nonprofit program start-up, strategic and operational planning, building cross-sector collaboration, developing practical outcome measurement systems, capacity building and project management.
We also have expertise in earned-income social enterprise management. CEO Rochelle Alley has provided financial and strategic consulting to earned-income ventures in Arizona, Connecticut, and California; she also oversaw the growth of the Children’s Bureau’ s earned-income software venture from small project to revenue-generating business serving New York City, Los Angeles County, and nonprofits throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Current and past nonprofit and philanthropic clients include United Way of Greater Los Angeles, Providence St. John’s Hospital, Los Angeles Best Babies Network, Children’s Bureau, Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services, the LA County Perinatal and Early Childhood Home Visitation Consortium, the Partnership for Early Childhood Investment, and more.
Governmental Systems Change
Big Orange Splot, LLC, offers deep expertise in leading governmental change initiatives, building cross-sector collaboration, program development and start-up, strategic and operational planning, landscape research, and capacity building.
We have extensive and broad experience in all things child and family related — child welfare, early childhood development, parent engagement, and beyond. We also come with a deep background in stakeholder engagement and negotiation that enables us to focus team and systemic contributions towards ultimate collective impact.
Most recently we have been supporting Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services and Office of Child Protection in implementing Family First system changes, developing Invest LA strategic plans, and launching their Thriving Families partnership with Casey Family Programs and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
In addition, under our current contracts with the Center for Strategic Partnerships, we lead multiple initiatives that focus on building cross-sector bridges to infuse philanthropic support and community wisdom into County system change initiatives.
Our Impact
Sample High-Impact Projects
★ Leading, co-developing and advising on key Los Angeles County and California prevention initiatives (including Family First Prevention Services Act implementation, Community Response Network development, Mandated Supporter, and early childhood parent support pilots), as the primary child welfare consultant for both the LA County Office of Child Protection and LA Center for Strategic Partnerships since 2018.
★ Facilitated and oversaw the roll out of 10 prevention system change initiatives in 2023 totaling $6.5 MM , including investments in mentorship, early developmental support, legal assistance, and more; raised and coordinated an additional $1.2 MM in philanthropic and local governmental funds for six more family and community strengthening projects in 2023.
★ Coordinated emergency COVID child care response for health workers after schools and centers closed, including collaborating with City, County, and nonprofit leaders to reopen child care sites, raise over $500,000 in child care voucher funds for crucial low-income hospital workers, and launch a hotline and website to help emergency workers access care.
★ Developed Los Angeles County’s recent plan for home visitation expansion that yielded a 55% increase in funding for home visiting from $90MM in 2017 to $140MM in 2020: Facilitated cross-departmental, cross-sector leaders in developing plan for improving access for diverse populations, expanding quantity and type of services, and increasing funding sustainability; performed data analysis, wrote plan and launched implementation oversight body.
★ Provided multi-year strategic planning, technical assistance, and backbone support for Collective Impact initiatives such as the Foster Together Network (fostertogethernetwork.net; and as highlighted by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation) and Los Angeles County Perinatal and Early Childhood Home Visitation Consortium (homevisitingla.org).
★ Led Foster Together Network to grow from 25 partners in 2017 to hosting 500 in 2020, incubating and ushering in approximately $2.5 MM in funding for successful child welfare system improvement pilots and initiatives from 2017-2023.
★ Developed key system infrastructure such as the LA Home Visiting eDirectory (edirectory.homevisitingla.org) and DCFS Community Data Dashboard.
★ Oversaw multiple complex program start-ups, such as the Vista Del Mar Early Head Start – Child Care Partnerships.
Clients
Current and past clients of Big Orange Splot include:
- Center for Strategic Partnerships
- Los Angeles County Office of Child Protection
- Los Angeles County Commission for Children & Families
- United Way of Greater Los Angeles
- First 5 LA
- Partnership for Early Childhood Investment
- Children’s Bureau
- Providence Hospital/St. John’s Child and Family Development Center
- Vista Del Mar Home SAFE Early Head Start
- Los Angeles Best Babies Network
- LA County Perinatal and Early Childhood Home Visitation Consortium
In addition, our CEO Rochelle Alley has had the pleasure of serving as a consultant for the following nonprofit and governmental agencies:
- Annie E. Casey Foundation/State of Louisiana
- Child Advocacy Network of CT
- Women’s Transition Project/Belleza Gallery
- Northern Virginia Family Service
- Xanadu Family Center
- Guilford Women and Family Life Center
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. General Services Administration
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Six other Federal government agencies
Our Team
Meet our Founder
Rochelle Alley, MBA
CEO Rochelle’s commitment to child well-being work started as a tutor to incarcerated mothers. This formative experience touched her heart and sparked a lifelong journey that included overseeing wide portfolios of social services, and ultimately 20+ years leading and consulting for organizations nationwide as diverse as Annie E. Casey Foundation, Federal Department of Education, and numerous small nonprofit start-ups.
Rochelle Alley brings extensive professional experience to Big Orange Splot in the domains of strategic planning, program start-up, interagency collaboration, financial analysis, evaluation, research, public speaking, coaching and stakeholder engagement.
As CEO of Big Orange Splot, LLC, Rochelle has led strategic planning, collective impact, start-up and capacity building projects for numerous nonprofit and governmental agencies, including United Way, Los Angeles County, First 5 LA and many more. As Westside Children’s Center’s Director of Programs, Rochelle was responsible for ensuring WCC’s child welfare and early education programs not only complied with all funder goals, but also exhibit excellence in their outcomes and service delivery methods; she also expanded WCCs funding, accessing new resources from First 5 LA and California Department of Education. As the Associate Director of Programs at Children’s Bureau of Southern California, Rochelle facilitated growth within CB’s foster care recruitment, economic support, preschool and partnership-based programs; she also oversaw growth in CB’s social enterprise from financial loss to a positive earned income venture serving New York City and Los Angeles County. Prior to these roles, Rochelle also gained valuable governmental and business experience working for the City of Alexandria and Booz | Allen | Hamilton.
Rochelle holds an MBA with a focus on nonprofit management and marketing from Yale University and a BA degree in Government magna cum laude from Harvard University.
I believe in leading with passion and focus.
To me, the goal is always to bring our best together to realize real lasting impact for children and families.
As someone with experience both leading and providing consultation for programs, I know the powerful impact that responsive, tailored consulting services can bring to organizations and the individuals they serve: opening pathways to better outcomes, unlocking doors to new resources, and helping set up infrastructure for long-term success.
Meet our Executive Project Coordinator
Kila Burton
Over the past twenty years, Kila Burton has supported nonprofit and corporate entities over a broad range of industries with project management, video and event production, marketing and social media management, public relations, graphic design and other capacities. Her diverse background includes working for over 10 years for an award-winning multimedia company, and also as producer of numerous television and theatre productions, including the Bachelor and Bachelorette television shows, productions for Assemblymember Mike Gipson and the City of Inglewood, and two runs of the critically-acclaimed stage production, Black Women State of the Union. Kila also has experience curating workshops between local leaders and the communities they served. Kila is a core team member supporting Big Orange Splot’s child well-being, equity and governmental system change portfolio.
Project Expertise
We tailor each project team to the specific needs of our clients, bringing in the right expertise at the right time through our proven partners. Sample skill-sets for which we partner with other experts include: data mapping, event production, and advanced research.
