Let's run this place well.
Finance, people, and compliance, handled so your leadership can spend its time on mission.
What it looks like from the inside
The budget was built in a spreadsheet three years ago and updated by hand ever since. Cash gets tight every spring and nobody can say exactly why. The finance report the board sees is the one the accountant produces, in the accountant's format, which means nobody on the board understands it. There's no HR handbook, or there is one and it's from a template. Your best people are tired, and you know it, and you don't have the bandwidth to do anything about it.
What it's costing you
Operations problems don't announce themselves. They show up as a failed audit finding, a grant you can't report on, a hire who leaves in four months because onboarding was a login and a desk. They show up as the executive director doing the bookkeeping at 11pm. And they show up in retention: nonprofits lose people faster than any other sector, and the reason is almost never the mission.
What fixed looks like
A budget that's a management tool, not a compliance document. A cash flow projection you look at monthly. Financial reports the board can read in five minutes and act on. HR policies that were written for your organization. A volunteer program that runs without you. And a culture where people stay, because the place is run well and they can feel it.
How we work on it
Get a plan: an operations review that tells you what's broken, what's fine, and what to fix first. Get it built: we design the reporting, write the policies, and set up the systems. Get a team: a fractional COO, CMO, or head of technology, embedded with your staff, for as long as you need one and not a day longer.
- Fractional COO, CMO, or head of technology
- Budgeting, cash flow, and reserve planning
- Financial reporting for boards and funders
- Audit and grant compliance readiness
- HR policies, hiring, and onboarding design
- Volunteer program design
- Culture, staff retention, and burnout mitigation