With a strong, multi-faceted background in social service, mental health, 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 re-occurring challenges.
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 clear 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 large and small, from crafting press releases to taking the lead on 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, especially during periods of organization growth, where your workforce tends to take on additional and complex work in addition to their routine workaday, or during episodes of staffing downturns, when projects can lose their momentum due to resource limitations. With extensive experience in quality management and improvement, licensing and accreditation, contracting relationships and reporting, and measuring mission impact, we can work with your organization to relieve burden, even if short-term, to help you 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 works with and involves your team in projects we take on, creating experiences of growth and success, and promoting strong a sense of strong organizational citizenship along the way.