Nonprofit Management Consulting
You don’t have to sacrifice your staff’s well-being and passion for the strategic plan you wrote months or years ago.
You can have tough conversations about the future when you’re less worried about making it to the next fiscal year.
Your nonprofit doesn’t have to run on a shoestring, your staff on fumes, and your board on padded reports just because you are doing good things for the world.
Victoria serves nonprofits of any size and sector with practical consulting services, including:
Fractional / Interim COO and Chief-of-Staff services — get the whole team back on track then plan for, hire, and on-board your top, long-term replacement.
Fractional / Interim Development Director services — bridge leadership gaps, escape the triage carousel, and plan for the future all while growing and stewarding your core funders
Board Governance, Training, and Recruitment — keep your organization’s most ardent supporters effective, engaged, and happy without sacrificing staff autonomy.
Capacity Assessments — take the next step to understand what you can achieve with what you already have. From leadership to organizational culture to fundraising, these research-based tools deliver the essential data you need to make decisions your whole team can stand behind.
Business Planning for Formation and Change — whether you’re preparing for a major shift of mission or organizational culture, or just starting your nonprofit, you’ll need a roadmap that helps others find ways to meet you. Business plans can include traditional case statements, pitch decks, and high-impact infographics.
Additional Services
Budget preparation and forecasting.
Change management.
Compliance.
System and process improvement.
When do you need a nonprofit management consultant?
A co-founder and lifelong staff member leaves their leadership role at a community-based organization.
A does-it-all executive director can’t find enough hours in a day to serve the staff, board, and mission…and partners, and donors, and funders, and volunteers.
Funding gaps keep holding back essential new-hires and staff are concerned that a sustainable plan has become a stagnant one.
A nonprofit’s staff and board are ready to reframe their relationship now that the early years of “everyone does everything” are behind them.
Highlights
Social Enterprise and Program Revenue: Crafted a long-term work plan for a revenue-generating department that accounted for tight staff capacity, donor influence, and mission-critical projects while rebalancing the revenue stream without eliminating products meaningful to mission scope. Plan generated enough success in its first fiscal year that the department hired an additional full-time employee to expand in-house capacity.
From Idea to Implementation: Created a detailed implementation plan that identified staff, volunteer, and partner inputs necessary for the success of a 24-month, grant-funded social services program that would extend the client’s services and mission within its core community.
Capacity Building through Partnerships: Facilitated practical and strategic working partnerships with new MOUs that extended organizational capacity and lowered cost-of-entry to launch new products and programs.