What We Do

A different kind of advisory firm

Access, credibility, and the ability to open doors others can't.

NOBLE GRACE CREATES ACCESS WHERE OTHERS CANNOT. Noble Grace Partners was built for a world where the most consequential relationships — the ones that drive revenue, shape policy, and build lasting institutions — are not transactional. They are earned over time, through access, credibility, and a track record of delivering at the highest level. Noble Grace leverages relationships, convenings, and introductions built over decades at the highest levels of business, government, sports, and civic life to open doors that others simply cannot.

Noble Grace operates with intention. We take on a select number of engagements at any given time, and we approach every potential partner with the same discipline — bringing only the opportunities we genuinely believe will create meaningful value for them. Our reputation is built on the quality of what we bring to the table, not the volume. We do not inundate. We curate.

Unlike firms that rely on transactional relationships and broad-based outreach, Ioanna and Rafi operate as highly selective, high-touch advisors. Their model is built on trusted relationships, discretion, and the ability to bring together influential decision-makers across industries to create partnerships and opportunities that are uniquely strategic, long-term, and transformational.

Sports, Partnerships & Strategic Revenue

The most valuable partnerships in sports aren't sold. They're built.

Access at the highest level has no shortcut and no sales process. It must be earned — and we've spent decades earning it.

The business of sports has never been more competitive — or more relationship-driven. For sports properties, the challenge is no longer visibility. It is access — to the right corporate partners, investors, and institutional stakeholders who deliver not just revenue, but long-term strategic value. For corporate partners, the challenge is twofold: finding partnerships that deliver genuine financial returns, and identifying properties whose values and audience create authentic brand alignment that no media buy can replicate. NOBLE GRACE PURSUES PARTNERSHIPS WITH INTENTION — WE ONLY BRING WHAT WE BELIEVE IN, AND THAT ADDS VALUE FOR BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE.

What We Do

• Relationship developmentLeveraging direct access to C-suite executives, family offices, and senior decision-makers to open doors that traditional sales outreach cannot reach.
• Partnership identification & strategyIdentifying the corporate partners, investors, and institutional stakeholders whose business objectives align with a property's platform, audience, and values.
• Sponsorship structuring & negotiationAdvising on deal structure, valuation, and terms to ensure partnerships deliver long-term strategic and financial value for both sides.
• Social impact & philanthropic partnership developmentSports properties today sit at the intersection of culture, community, and commerce in a way no other platform can match. Noble Grace helps properties and their corporate partners build meaningful, strategically aligned programs that connect corporate philanthropic and nonprofit partners around shared values — creating real community impact, deepening brand loyalty, and unlocking philanthropic revenue streams that traditional sponsorship models leave on the table.
• Activation & stakeholder engagementDesigning the convenings, hospitality experiences, and executive touchpoints that deepen partnerships and drive renewal.
• Host committee & fundraising leadershipBuilding and leading the donor and partner circles that surround marquee sporting events, championships, and major civic sports initiatives.
• Government & institutional engagementConnecting sports properties to elected officials, economic development agencies, and civic leaders who can unlock public-private partnership opportunities.

Who We Work With

Political & Government Affairs Advisory

Curating the rooms where government and business meet

Where the right relationships — with the leaders, decision-makers, and individuals who shape outcomes — can be game changing.

Our founders have spent their careers at the intersection of government, business, and civic life — advising cabinet secretaries, governors, and senior elected and public officials, while simultaneously building the corporate and institutional relationships that make consequential partnerships possible.

Today, the most effective government affairs strategy is not built on lobbying alone. It is built on relationships, convenings, and introductions that operate at a different level entirely — where business leaders, policymakers, and civic stakeholders engage as partners rather than adversaries. NOBLE GRACE WAS BUILT FOR THIS ENVIRONMENT.

What We Do

• Executive engagement strategyAdvising companies, investors, and institutional leaders on how to build and deepen relationships with senior government officials at the federal, state, and local level.
• Strategic introductionsFacilitating the specific introductions — executive to official, company to agency, institution to policymaker — that open doors no traditional government affairs approach can reach.
• Curated invitation-only conveningsDesigning and hosting private forums where senior business and government leaders engage on shared priorities — access that shapes decisions before they reach the public arena.
• Speaker & program developmentIdentifying and securing the senior government voices whose participation elevates a program to a different level of credibility and access.
• Corporate partnerships & sponsorshipsConnecting organizations to the corporate partners and institutional sponsors whose strategic objectives align with civic and policy priorities.
• Guest curation & stakeholder managementManaging audience and guest curation for high-stakes convenings — ensuring the right people are in the room and that their participation is meaningful, not ceremonial.

Where This Matters

Marquee Events, Host Committees & Strategic Convenings

The room doesn't build itself

What separates a memorable event from a historic one is the architecture behind it.

The host committee, the donor circle, the sponsorship coalition, the advisory structure — these are not supporting elements. They are the event's foundation. Noble Grace Partners excels at exactly this work. We don't simply operate within existing structures — we help design and assemble the high-level coalitions themselves, recruiting the civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders whose involvement defines the character and ambition of an event, and then advising and steering those coalitions to ensure they deliver at the highest level. WHETHER THE STAKES ARE HISTORIC OR INTIMATE — NOBLE GRACE ENSURES THE OUTCOME IS EXTRAORDINARY.

What We Do

Host Committees & Major Events

• Committee assembly & recruitmentIdentifying, recruiting, and securing the civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders whose involvement gives a host committee its authority, credibility, and reach.
• Fundraising strategy & executionDesigning and executing the fundraising strategy for major events — from initial goal-setting through solicitation, cultivation, and close.
• Corporate partnership developmentBuilding the corporate partnership and sponsorship infrastructure that turns an event's brand into a platform for meaningful business relationships.
• Government & civic engagementManaging the government and civic relationships essential to the success of major events — from elected officials and economic development authorities to cultural and community stakeholders.
• Philanthropic developmentConnecting major events to the philanthropic and nonprofit communities whose participation elevates the event's civic and social impact.

Strategic Convenings & Conferences

Noble Grace also advises on and builds high-impact conferences, summits, and private convenings — from concept through execution, both advising existing events and building new ones from the ground up.

• Conference strategy & designDefining the positioning, audience, and program architecture that gives a conference a clear and defensible identity in a crowded market.
• Audience curationIdentifying and recruiting the specific attendees — executives, policymakers, investors, innovators — whose presence defines the value of the room.
• Speaker & program developmentBuilding the speaker and program lineup that makes a conference worth attending — and worth coming back to.
• Sponsorship & partnership developmentDeveloping the sponsorship and partnership model that funds the conference and aligns corporate partners with the event's audience and mission.
• Social impact conveningsDesigning invitation-only gatherings that convene corporate, philanthropic, and nonprofit leaders around shared social priorities — creating the relationships that make meaningful collective action possible.

Contact

Work with Noble Grace Partners

Noble Grace Partners works with a selective group of clients. If you are interested in exploring whether we are the right fit for your organization, we welcome the conversation.

Noble Grace Partners  ·  New York, NY