For nonprofits and development organizations

Strategy, funding and delivery for nonprofits and development organizations

Strategy, operations, funding, partnerships, recruitment, AI adoption, and monitoring and evaluation. For organizations setting up how they deliver, or outgrowing it.

Book a Strategy SessionEvery engagement begins with a Strategy Session.

What we do

Organizations whose programs have outgrown their systems.

  • Organizational and Program Strategy

    Where the organization is going and what each program contributes.

  • Operating Model and Process Design

    Structure, cadence and processes that hold when the team changes.

  • Program Expansion and New-Market Entry

    Taking a program to a new region or country: what to keep, what to adapt, what it takes.

Organizations with programs to deliver end to end.

  • Program Design and Planning

    Logic, work plan, budget and milestones a funder can follow.

  • Program Delivery and Management

    Day-to-day delivery, with the reporting funders expect.

  • Delivery Structure and Work Planning

    Roles, cadence and tools so delivery holds when people change.

Organizations that deliver with and through others.

  • Partnership Strategy

    Which partnerships advance the mission and which cost more than they return.

  • Partner Pipeline and Agreements

    From first conversation to a signed, workable agreement.

Organizations that need a funding strategy beyond the next grant.

  • Grant Search

    The funders and calls that fit your mandate, sized and sequenced.

  • Funding Strategy

    A diversified plan with the relationships and materials behind it.

  • Funding Requests

    Proposals and concept notes written to the funder, not to the template.

Organizations that must show outcomes, not activity.

  • Metrics Frameworks

    Indicators that measure the change you intend, and nothing you cannot collect.

  • Program Monitoring

    Routines and tools that keep the data current without a second job.

  • Evaluation Reporting

    Reports that funders read and boards act on.

Organizations hiring the people a program depends on.

  • Hiring Process Design

    Role definition, assessment design and a process that produces a decision.

  • Structured Assessment and Candidate Evaluation

    Evidence-based selection for program and leadership roles.

  • Role and Team Structure

    Who does what, and what the next hire should be.

Organizations adopting AI without putting beneficiary data or funder trust at risk.

  • AI Policy and Guardrails

    What the organization will and will not do with AI, written for funders and staff.

  • AI Readiness Session

    The Strategy Session with an AI lens: where AI helps, where it is a risk, what to do first.

  • AI Adoption Sprint

    Use-case triage, tool selection, workflow redesign and staff enablement.

  • Implementation Support

    Delivery of the adoption plan with human review built in.

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Pricing

The Nonprofit Strategy Session is $320 CAD until December 31, 2026, and $400 from January 1, 2027.

Nonprofits pay 20% less than business pricing on every engagement with a business equivalent. Scoped work is quoted in writing after your Strategy Session.

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Pro bono track

One place each quarter, by application.

A Strategy Session and a written roadmap at no cost, for an organization ready to use it and not yet able to pay for it: registered, at least one active program, an annual budget under $50,000 CAD or equivalent, a specific decision in front of you, and a named person who will act on the roadmap this quarter.

Apply for the pro bono track

Every engagement begins with a Strategy Session.