Non-Profits

Non-profits are facing mounting demand on their resources. At the same time, they are seeing increasing competition from other non-profits for the ever-shrinking pool of funding from traditional funding sources. Together, these factors are threatening non-profits' sustainability and effectiveness in serving the community.

Several years ago, the founder of Compass Diversity began implementing business and strategic plans for non-profit organizations that employed her. At the time, many people in the non-profit community and funders equated business plans with the "evils of capitalism" - that is only making money at the expense of serving the community (even though we were all hearing from funders that we had to find other sources of income and/or become self sufficient for years). The opposite was true. Having a business and strategic plan in fact focussed on the needs of the end users of the non-profit service and placed value, customer service, adhering to high ethical standards, and realizing the non-profit's mandate as critical outcomes in measuring the non-profit's effectiveness.

Examples of How We Can Help You

As Compass Diversity comes from a diversity and inclusiveness tact, our approach will be infused with these perspectives when working with you.

We support your organization in such ways as offering:

• board development and management

• writing constitutions and by-laws

• leadership

• marketing and communications

• management and planning

• sustainability

• human resources

• information technology management

• fund and donor management

• volunteer management

• knowledge management

• program, policy, and project development

• increasing, maintaining stakeholders' awareness, support, participation

• administration and operations management

• financial management

• partnering/collaborating with the community and business