Many nonprofits are experts in mission related subject matter, but need help with operations and back-office issues like finance, human resources, or facilities management. Operating with inadequate operations takes you away from mission work and fundraising.
Do you need to transform your nonprofit? Would you like to repair and expand your organization’s business capacity? Maybe you have financial challenges, significant changes in leadership or staffing, stagnation, or even extreme growth. Our team of experienced transformation consultants will help you make the necessary adjustments for long-term success resulting in a more powerful, functional nonprofit. We can even step in and lead while we help you put capable business systems in place.
Transform Your Nonprofit
Our Business Capacity Services include three customizable options.
Business Systems Design:Â Our experts will be by your side to develop internal systems to serve as a capable base for your new or expanding nonprofit. We act as an extension of your team to create policies and systems for finance, human resources, and facilities. We help you get it right the first time!
Business Systems Renovation: Sometimes business systems are neglected or underdeveloped as our nonprofits grow. Or maybe they were created ineffectively because of limited funds and staff. Through Business Systems Renovation, we help you redesign and implement new financial, human resource, and facility systems to give you peace of mind that your operations are being appropriately managed and that your systems are strong and capable of supporting your advancing mission.
Momentum: In this intensive partnership, Let’s Build Hope consultants work consistently and closely with senior leadership and Board members for up to three years through single-year contracts. This longer-term arrangement allows us to employ our hands-on approach to provide guidance through complex issues like Board and staff leadership turnover, need for significant program adjustments, a thorough mission/vision/values review, or a change in fundraising structure…or maybe even all of the above! Consultants begin immediately working on any pressing challenges including but not limited to a review of programs, fundraising, operations, and finance. This approach allows us to bring all our resources to your organization.
LBH manages all these options with a three-part approach.
Discovery: We take the time to really understand your organization’s history, people, mission, strengths, and challenges. This process can take a week or several depending on the complexity of an organization. We want to really know you before helping you implement changes.
Decisions: Next we present you with options for overcoming the challenges facing your nonprofit. We work with you, your staff, and the board to decide the best path forward for your various efforts.
Implementation: Then we implement. We are your project manager. We lead the implementation of the changes identified in the decision-making phase. We coordinate our efforts with those of your vendors and staff to complete the project on time and on budget.
Through all of our Business Capacity Services, we work to strengthen and transform nonprofits, ensuring that they remain solid and continue to perform at a high level long after LBH consultants have gone.
Developing Healthy, High Performing Teams
The most challenging problems inside nonprofits are rarely only technical. Often, they stem from dysfunctional teams and the issues that naturally arise when the nonprofit culture has not been designed for health and functionality.
Your team will emerge from the transformation process stronger — with a clear mission, systems, and leadership skills embedded in your nonprofit that help leaders continue the transformation over time with independence, sustainability, and growth.
