Hawkins Holdings is a strategic advisory and impact firm rooted in legacy and built for the future.
We help mission-driven leaders take ownership of their future by designing culturally grounded strategies that optimize capital, mobilize communities, and build generational systems.

From launching investment vehicles to guiding philanthropic families or scaling nonprofits, we equip our clients to act with clarity, build with courage, and lead with vision.

This work was born from the lives of those who came before me.
My grandfather, Zeb Bennett, built a concrete company in 1976 that laid more than just roads and foundations for infrastructure, it laid a path for future generations. Though he passed a decade before I was born, his reputation as a builder, entrepreneur, and community man set the standard for what legacy building should look like.

My mother carried that energy forward, navigating both motherhood and a successful career with grace, resilience, and vision. Her story is one of persistence in the face of structural challenge. It’s her strength, and my grandfather’s blueprint that fuel the mission of this firm.

We exist to make strategy, wealth, and systems design accessible to the very communities that have been denied them.

Nicholas Hawkins
Founder. Advisor. Philanthropist & Bridge-builder.

Hawkins Holdings was shaped by the lived tension between access and aspiration, the grind of grassroots service and the strategy rooms that too often lacked our voice.

Nicholas, our founder, carries a rare intersection of experience spanning over a decade:

• As a licensed financial advisor, he worked with millions in assets under management, offering investment strategies, estate planning, and retirement planning for everyday families and rising entrepreneurs.

• As a nonprofit leader and cooperative strategist, he designed programs focused on economic mobility, legislative advocacy, and youth development; connecting policy to people in real time.

• As a parliamentarian and civic organizer, he guided communities not just to respond to power, but to navigate and wield it. Leading organizations through leadership transitions, conflict mediation, and strategic planning.

• As a technologist and founder, he’s built DAO-powered ecosystems, automated digital infrastructure for collectives, and advised on blockchain-integrated funding models for equity-centered ventures.

Each season, each role, and each room taught him the same truth:

We don’t need more saviors, we need systems that serve.

Hawkins Holdings is that response:
A fusion of credibility and community.
A bridge between Wall Street precision and front porch practicality.