At the center of all nonprofit operations is the capacity to deliver your mission with sustained excellence. We fully understand the challenge of serving with consistent quality and accountability. Growth periods can challenge your talented and committed workforce. Your A-1 employees take on additional and complex work in addition to routine work accountabilities. Let us work with your team to achieve licensing and/or accreditation, strengthen contracting relationships and reporting, evaluate programs and services, or activate a cycle of improvement to bring lasting change. We can work with your organization to relieve burden, even if short-term, to sustain quality and keep operations on track. More.
Organizational Performance Benchmarks
Intagrate strategic priorities within your organization’s daily routines by setting performances benchmarks, measuring progress, analyzing performance, and communicating results to Board, customers, funders, employees, and other stakeholders. Now more than ever, nonprofit organizations must directly link organizational benchmarks to funding, legal, and regulatory expectations and requirements. Grant fuunding interval drawdowns require timely goal achievement, accurate measurement, and transparent reporting. Catalyst can help your organization to design benchmarks that tie directly to strategic goals and funding mandates. We work directly with your team to systematically plan, measure, analyze, and report out on organizational benchmarks. Let us help you build relevant, organized, transparent, well-communicated measurement systems in key operational areas: finance, strategy, human resources, technology, operations, fundraising, and more.
Program/Service Evaluation & Outcomes
Federal, state, local, and private funders require efficacious use of resources. Organizations, programs and services must demonstrate effectiveness and impact through evaluation and outcome data. We can help your team to organize this work, take on the project in a lead role, or assist routinized processes.
Data Analysis, Visualization, & Reporting
Skilled in data visualization, Catalyst joins with your organization to convey the real-time story of your mission in action. We help your team to “see the story” in your quality and operational data, use data visualization to build common understanding of your organization’s effectiveness, success or challenges, retain current clients and appeal to new ones, and demonstrate to internal and external stakeholders how their investment in your mission is worth their time, talent, and/or treasure. Use our data visualitions service for routine or important workforce, board, community, funder, regulator, and other stakeholder communications.
Performance Improvement
Investing in your organization’s enhances its competitiveness and long-term sustainability. Routine evaluation and data-driven action promote high-quality service and high-performing employees. Catalyst can help the novice team or advanced organization by assisting your performance improvement needs. We are passionate about:
Helping your organization achieve licensure and/or accreditation
Solving nagging problems that frustrate your team
Bringing programs, services, and initiatives to a positive operating margin
Engaging your workforce in mission and strategy through inovative performance improvement projects
Creating quality management and performance improvement plans to ignite energy among your employees and inspire top performance
Innovating creative marketing and fundraising plans that inspire stakeholder connection to your organization’s cause