Our Value to Nonprofit Organizations and Sector
With a strong, multi-faceted background in social service, behavioral healthcare, housing, and educational realms of the nonprofit sector, Catalyst easily assimilates into your organization, swiftly and responsibly addresses your needs, involves your employees to the level you desire, and delivers results with high accountability.
We understand your unique and routine reality of “doing more with less.” Nonprofit organizations must continue to serve their constituents and communities amidst real and reoccurring disruptions or discontinuities, and resource shortfalls. Allow us to help you begin that complex project or rejuvenate lagging priorities.
Resource Cultivation
We understand the organizational need to innovate, grow, and change in response to sector demands and evolving best practices. Catalyst can help your organization to secure new (federal, state, local, private, or philanthropic) funding.
Strategic Assessment, Planning, and Execution
Strategic Assessment and Planning involves internal and external constituents and partners. The Assessment process requires a multi-dimensional review of your organization’s strengths, vulnerabilities, performance, and opportunities, among other critical domains. Assessment also necessitates a comprehensive, organized and well-communicated approach. Catalyst can work with your organization’s leaders to design an Assessment process uniquely tailored to governing, internal, external, and other ancillary preferences. As Assessment findings integrate into your organization’s budding Strategic Plan, we can help facilitate conversations, decisions, and consensus-building around articulating your organization’s clean vision for the future.
Organizational Marketing, Advancement, & Fundraising
Communicating your organization’s value to clients, customers, partners, community, supporters, and funders requires ongoing innovation and attention. We take on projects of all sizes, from crafting press releases to assuming lead position for your next big event. We work with your team to formulate donative appeals and can provide interim leadership on a multitude of marketing and organizational advancement projects.
Operational Quality & Accountability
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.
Employee Leadership & Team-Building
With decades of experience in C-Suite Strategic, Operating, and Executive roles, we appreciate the value of the people who deliver on your mission each day. Our Embedded Consulting Model (ECM) has the distinct and unique value of involving and cultivating your team as we together accomplish goals to strengthen your organization’s success. Among the most powerful employee retention strategies is to ignite drive, connection, and success within your organization. Creating experiences of growth and success stimulate learning and organizational citizenship. Catalyst involves your team in projects we take on, creates experiences of growth and success, and promotes a sense of strong organizational citizenship along the way.