For Non-Profit funders, in addition to Due Diligence, we offer a complete line of assessment and intervention services.

Performance Evaluation

Lofty mission statements and the best intentions don't matter if an organization is sloppy, personality-driven, or focused on the past rather than the future.  Meaningful results come from well-managed and disciplined organizations.  High performance is a matter of management skill, not luck or history.

This pragmatic assessment covers: strategies, programs, management, costs, capabilities, and personnel in an objectives, caring, and rigorous fashion.

Alignment Assessment

It's critical that all stakeholders are in explicit alignment around key issues.  Mission, strategy, collaboration opportunities, and programs must all be clearly linked and focused.  Too often, words have multiple meanings and ponderous cliches substitute for sharp-edged statements.  Too often, disagreements are sub-merged and important conflicts avoided. 

This diagnostic tests the real level of shared understanding across the strategic spectrum and up and down the organization.

Strategy Development

Strategy is not a document, a series of numbers, or a set of platitudes.  To be effective, a strategy must articulate and answer important questions, identify and target real levels of performance,  quantify resource requirements, and define the practical actions that will be needed.  Strategy should be the bridge between aspiration and reality, between today and tomorrow, between survival and growth.

This service focuses on crisp, practical, and pragmatic action to produce real results.