Since the early 1990s, when working in the arts and nonprofits, Hilary was inspired by the emerging social entrepreneurism movement and work she did with a Bay Area theater company to reconsider the ways nonprofits and socially responsible businesses develop funding strategies to advance their mission and vision. 

Our WORK

In partnership with our clients, we work to address the financial stressors on an organization and to look at their assets as a way to define a new path to success, sustainability and growth. Focusing on business planning, identity and perception, audience development and messaging to optimize and connect with donors and supporters.

The areas of work include:

Revenue and Strategic Planning

We work with nonprofit leadership to strengthen revenue streams and to design funding models for fiscal success and sustainability. Together, we develop strategies to advance organizational mission and impact, by optimally aligning funding needs and resources with mission and vision. Including:

  • Conduct revenue and resource analysis

  • Model and analyze revenue and program income/expenses

  • Develop business plans

  • Develop strategic plans

  • Develop multi-year budget projections in advance of campaigns

  • Develop multi-year budget projections to support leadership decision making for organizations

  • Develop varied revenue strategies as decision making tools for executive staff and boards

Messaging and Visioning Work

We work with organizations to align thinking around vision, and organizational assets, their distinct impact within the community they serve, and who is out there to invest in advancing their mission. 

  • Facilitate group visioning work with staff and boards to articulate a shared future vision and associated benchmarks for success.

  • Expand fundraising strategies and initiatives by thinking creatively about who is out there to support their work.

  • Cultivate partnerships with foundations and corporations.

Fundraising Initiatives

We work with organizations to create new ways of engaging with their support audiences, through campaigns, new donor initiatives and messaging.

THE WORK WE DO

  • Strategic planning.

  • Business planning.

  • Visioning.

  • Creative thinking around new funding sources.

  • Organizational alignment.

  • Financial analysis.

  • Economic development.