Center for Nonprofit Strategies
The Center for Nonprofit Strategies offers clear and practical strategies to dramatically increase the impact of your organization. If you are ready to make a bold leap to new levels of accomplishment and effectiveness, we are the right team for you.
We have a proven process that yields powerful results. Here’s what some of our clients say:
“Working with CNPS is a joy and a privilege. The organizational strategy that we developed with their help has fundamentally reshaped our work and created a strong future.”
– Rebecca Wodder, Executive Director, American Rivers“Our strategic planning process was very consuming, enriching and transformative beyond our expectations.”
– Julie Howard, Executive Director, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
“They are creative, enthusiastic, energetic, responsive, and produce excellent results. Whatever your field, they’ll amaze you with how quickly they come up to speed to understand your business and how to help you move ahead.”
– Mary Tyrrell, Sustaining Family Forests Initiative“Working with the Center for Nonprofit Strategies ranks as one of the most valuable professional experiences I’ve had yet in 20 years as a public policy communicator.”
– Andy Ware, Assistant Chief, Ohio Department of Natural Resources“Our experience with the Center for Nonprofit Strategies was a tremendous success. They quickly internalized our mission and organizational culture and led us through a vigorous, thoughtful, and inclusive planning process. The end result is a sharply focused six-year road map to success.”
– Matt Sicchio, USA Football
And here are the keys to our success:
- An inclusive and organic approach. We engage your staff and stakeholders to build on the best thinking within your organization. Our strategies feel right because they fit with your organization’s character and inspire your staff, Board and volunteers.
- Equal parts of idealism and hard-nosed analysis. We tap, nurture and focus your passion for making the world a better place. We complement that with realistic analyses of your balance sheet, business model and competitive environment. The result is a strategy that shoots for the stars, but is firmly grounded in reality and charts a clear path.
- Complete commitment. We take on very few projects a year and are completely invested in our clients’ success. That means doing whatever it takes to get the job done right. It includes backing up to collect more data or explore overlooked solutions, addressing unforeseen challenges, and taking extra time to generate support from key stakeholders. We are not on the clock and there is no extra charge to you.
We invite you to explore this website and learn more about our services and our work.