NONPROFIT CONSULTING
Through our consulting services, we add bandwidth and resources to nonprofits when and where they need it. From Board Development to Executive Transition Management, we provide individuals with knowledge, skills and connections, help teams develop organizational sustainability, and collaborate with key players to create cultural shifts in our sector – all so that you can build on your mission-driven potential and sustain it into the future.
The offerings below represent our most popular services, but we know that no two nonprofits are exactly alike. Our team customizes each offering we deliver to fit the organization we’re serving – if you’re interested in Mission Capital’s consulting support and have questions about what’s right for you, reach out to our consulting team to learn more.
STRATEGIC PLANNING & STRATEGIC ADVISORY
Determine your organization’s goals and how to accomplish them.
With us as your guide, we’ll help your organization understand where you’ve been, where you’re at and where you want to go. Through a community-centered process, we’ll engage key stakeholders along the way to assess your mission statement, core programs and external identity to map out your organization’s future.
You’ll end up with a living strategic plan with goals, strategies and KPIs to serve as a North star for making tough organizational decisions, and effectively share your story and impact with potential funders and partners.
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS & HIRING
Using a Nationally recognized Prepare-Pivot-Thrive Leadership transition model, Mission Capital will walk your organization through a comprehensive assessment, gathering key stakeholder input to understand who your organization is, and the leadership needed to sustain your work. Based on this feedback, we’ll develop a custom leadership profile, identify where and how to post the position, and manage applications to ensure a streamlined process for your hiring team.
We use our Equity Hiring Framework to guide your hiring team. We rely on interview best-practices to support your process by managing scheduling, drafting interview questions, rubrics, and decision matrices to mitigate biases and ensure a seamless flow through the interview process. Once you have the candidate that’s right for you, we’ll coach your team through the hiring and onboarding process, ensuring your newest leader is set up for success!
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SESSION
Leverage your team, organization or cohorts leadership strengths by building a collective understanding of your individual strengths, communication styles and development needs.
With Mission Capital as your guide, we’ll partner with you to understand your immediate needs around leadership development and design a customized session to meet them.
Past clients have leveraged some of our current Personal Transformation trainings to create custom experiences for employees, cohorts of new hires or students, or community collaboratives.
SUCCESSION MANAGEMENT
Succession management is a holistic approach to prepare for leadership transitions. It includes preparing short and long-term plans alongside investing in the talent development of your people. We will work with your leadership and team to develop workshops and practices that help you address immediate succession planning needs through development of emergency succession plans (or continuity plans) for everyone in your organization.
Our team can help you plan for the transition of tenured leaders and staff, collaborating to develop departure defined succession plans and practices. We support you in determining how to invest in the development of your current team, and build a bench for future leaders through intentional talent development and culture policies and practices. We partner with you to create a well-designed process to ensure the organization is prepared and mitigate the risk of not having well-prepared leaders to assume critical leadership roles.
BOARD DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING
A lot has changed in the nonprofit sector over the past several years, including what is expected of board leaders who play such a crucial role in guiding an organization’s mission. Ground your board in a deeper understanding of their core roles and responsibilities in 2023 and beyond.
Our proven, but flexible, methodology for board advancement and training is based on best practices in the industry and our experience leading dozens of nonprofit board consulting engagements in the last years. We can guide you to foster a supportive and engaged board, truly invested in the success of your organization!
ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY & DEVELOPMENT
Address, build and manage the resources you need to ensure organizational stability.
We’ll lead your team through assessments to identify and address internal issues. We’ll facilitate visioning sessions to identify and focus on your nonprofit’s real-time needs. Together, we’ll determine how you can maximize and adapt your existing resources to better power your mission.
Continuing your organization’s important work is all about addressing, building, and managing the resources you need to ensure organizational sustainability. We’ll lead your team through qualitative and quantitative assessments to identify and address internal challenges and opportunities. Facilitating visioning sessions and proactive planning with your team, we’ll help you understand both real-time and long-term needs. Together, we’ll determine how you can maximize and adapt your existing resources to better power your mission!
TEAM DEVELOPMENT SESSION
Engage your team to accomplish your organizational goals.
Deepen your understanding of one another, build on your strengths, navigate conflict and support the collective team. We will partner with you to design a custom approach to strengthen your team and organizational leaders to support leadership development, communication, and change management.
We ensure your team holds the time and space needed to move forward as a collective, cohesive team.
USER & CUSTOMER-CENTERED INSIGHTS
Your nonprofit organization exists for one reason; to serve your community. However, far too many nonprofits operate in a silo and unknowingly neglect the needs of the very community they are serving. The answer is to incorporate an iterative, user-centered approach to how you serve by inviting your community as co-creators of your organization’s impact
Do you have a product, program, or service that you are interested in testing or scaling, but aren’t sure where to start? Combining approaches from user experience research, human centered design, and developmental program evaluation, we can help you gather the insights you need to improve the experience of your end-users, increase adoption and use rates, and align how your service is designed with your users’ and customers’ needs.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
As a Community Navigator organization through the City of Austin’s Community Navigator program, we have the opportunity to subsidize access to some of our customized offerings.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Community Navigator program, which provides free and discounted access to trainings, coaching and support with applying for funding, visit the City of Austin’s Community Navigator program website or fill out our contact form and a member of our consulting team will reach out to you.