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Our Services

Spectrum of Collaborative Solutions

We understand the challenges organizations face in navigating complex decisions, building capacity, and achieving their goals—often in the face of limited resources. That’s why we offer a spectrum of collaborative solutions tailored to your unique needs. From strategic planning and merger execution to back-office support, organizational development, and capacity building, our services are designed to help your mission thrive. By working closely with you, we ensure that every solution is highly customized, empowering you to achieve your goals effectively.

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Meeting Your Specific Needs

Our Discovery Process

Our discovery process is a dynamic, iterative journey focused on understanding the nuances of your organization's challenges and goals. Through initial consultations and in-depth insights, we work collaboratively to not only identify the best strategies for your success but also build alignment and a deeper understanding of the challenges before the engagement begins. By leveraging our extensive nonprofit experience, we ensure that the solutions we develop are finely tuned to your mission, goals, and specific needs.

Through our Spectrum of Collaborative Solutions, we come alongside you to help your organization achieve sustainable impact.

Strategic Advising

We’re more than consultants — we’re collaborators, allies, and thought partners, offering trusted support and guidance to help you chart and stay on the path towards your long term vision.

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Mergers & Partnerships

As the largest provider of nonprofit restructuring services in the Midwest, we combine our experience with careful listening and expert facilitation skills to guide you on the path to growing your impact by combining forces.

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Shared Back Office

Through deep, ongoing engagement and collaboration, we become a true extension of your team to create and support sustainable wellness in your finance, IT, and HR operations.

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Our Core Strengths

The Mission + Strategy Difference

  • As a nonprofit ourselves, we intimately understand the unique challenges, changes, and regulations you face on a daily basis. We’ve endured the eras of the midwest nonprofit landscape, and with decades of multi-faceted experience amongst our organization, have the lived and learned experience to help anticipate and navigate threats while identifying and seizing opportunities.

  • Asking not what we can do for you, but what we can do with you, we take your mission and community under our care as if they were our own. Without judgment or prescription, we meet you where you’re at, come alongside you, and adapt our approach to best fit your needs and culture. We go beyond consultation to acting as a true extension of your team, keeping your identity front and center always.

  • Truly seeing and honoring the people within your organization and in the community you serve, we are deeply committed to relationships and human connection. We understand how complex your work can be on a daily basis and in periods of transition, and we’re dedicated to providing heart-centered support every step of the way. One of our greatest strengths is being able to hold difficult conversations with great compassion.

  • We’re committed to ensuring every engagement is of the highest quality and tailored to meet your specific needs. We prioritize your goals over deliverables, taking the time upfront to truly understand your objectives and then pivoting the action plan if the project isn’t meeting them. With the belief that the process is just as important as the end result, we employ whatever methods are best suited for your needs.

  • Our team members as well as our organization itself have firsthand experience in multiple forms of collaboration. We blend this experience with tried-and-true business strategies to achieve impactful outcomes. By leveraging outside corporate strategies and unbiased principles that work across organizations, we ensure top quality process and most effective results. 

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Together, we are stronger.

Ready to strike a balance between your mission and business strategies?