Services
Provide competitive analysis and landscape scans to assess potential pathways to greater revenue.
- Analyze funder dynamics, competitors, and collaboration opportunities.
- Conduct internal and external positioning analysis to inform diversification and efficiency strategies.
- Benchmark nonprofit peers to determine differentiation and opportunities.
- Clarify when to compete or partner in order to maximize funding and impact in a constrained environment.
- Develop earned income streams aligned with the mission for financial stability.
- Design hiring strategies and organizational structures to elevate fundraising and outreach.
Facilitate strategy development sessions, executive roundtables, and leadership summits.
- Design and prepare for sessions which include co-creation of agendas with clear objectives, distribute pre-work or background materials, and conduct stakeholder interviews to understand perspectives in advance.
- Facilitate dynamic breakout discussions using creative tools, keep the group on track, and deliver documented action plans with clear ownership.
- Foster high value peer exchange among senior leaders on strategic challenges or specific issues.
- Convene leaders in immersive, high-touch settings to exchange ideas, build vision, and catalyze collective leadership.
Help form innovative partnerships between companies and nonprofits.
- Identify shared values, goals, and missions between nonprofits and companies to ensure meaningful, mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Develop creative and customized partnership models (e.g., cause marketing, employee engagement, social innovation programs, co-branded campaigns).
- Research and connect with potential corporate partners whose interests and CSR goals align with the nonprofit’s mission.
- Help nonprofits articulate their impact and what they can offer to a company (e.g., brand equity, access to new audiences, employee engagement opportunities).
- Assist in crafting compelling partnership proposals and presentations tailored to the business objectives of potential corporate partners.
- Train nonprofit staff on how to approach, negotiate, and manage corporate partnerships effectively.
- Support long-term relationship building through communication planning, stakeholder engagement, and renewal strategies.
Create campaigns to help generate revenue from cause-marketing promotions, commercial co-ventures sponsorships, point-of-sale programs, and more.
- Evaluate strategic and cultural alignment of partnership opportunities, including risk assessment.
- Identify and initiate high-potential collaborations.
- Generate creative, mutually beneficial partnership models, including business case and value proposition design.
- Co-development of pilot concepts.
- Storytelling and communication support.
Support companies and foundations by providing technical help to their grantees to ensure operating capacity and sustainable impact.
- Understand grantee needs, strengths, and gaps by conducting organizational assessments via surveys and interviews; analyze readiness across key areas and provide tailored capacity development plans for each grantee.
- Build internal capabilities through hands-on support with specific emphasis on fundraising and donor engagement, including 1:1 coaching sessions.
- Support grantees in turning plans into action through change management guidance and support in hiring and onboarding key development staff.
- Create ecosystems of learning and shared growth through peer learning cohorts, communities of practice, knowledge sharing events, and feedback sessions.
- Help funders align strategies with grantee realities, including advising on capacity-building grants and support.
Deliver strategies and approaches for structuring coalitions and partnerships between nonprofit organizations to capitalize on shared missions and scale resources.
- Lead a structured discovery process that includes conducting stakeholder interviews to understand missions, visions, organizational culture, and goals.
- Assess mission alignment by identifying overlapping areas of mission and complementary capabilities.
- Facilitate strategy sessions to help define coalition value propositions and establish short- and long-term goals that are measurable and impact-driven.
- Clarify expectations for each partner – who leads what, who contributes what.
- Coordinate outreach to funders who prioritize partnerships or collective impact models.
- Help structure preventive conflict management systems such as facilitated mediation and regular feedback sessions.
- Provide leadership coaching for key personnel involved in the coalition.
