Services for Non-Profits

Services and Resources for Non-Profits

If I had to summarize the Top 3 areas of growth and challenge I've seen across all of my non-profit clients, it's alignment, communication, and coordination. Not talent. Not having a compelling mission. Not the environment.

Alignment, communication, and coordination.

All too often, though, organizations start with addressing coordination issues: who's doing what, how, by when, etc. The real question should be "of all the things we're doing, what are the 3-5 projects or activities that are driving real results?"

That "real results" question inevitably pushes them toward alignment and communication challenges, though, because Boards, Executive Committees, EDs, staff, and the community all have different takes on what real results are and what's making the difference. This divergence is exactly why most non-profits are overwhelmed by and trapped in the work: everybody wants something different and they don't have a way of saying Yes to the right things and No to good ideas that just aren't a fit for the organization.

"When I talk with Charlie, I can bring him the entirety of my experience, and he can take the disparate parts and fit them together in ways I didn’t imagine. One two-hour conversation with Charlie changed how I view my work, how I present it to the world, and who I impact, all for the better. I’m deeply appreciative of our time together, and excited by the fundamental changes in my business."

Bridget Pilloud

Non-Profit Clients Value My Ability To:

We have dozens of free resources and tools to help you get control of your calendar, to-do list, and projects.

Illuminate, anchor, and build alignment around essential root questions and principles so that we can avoid the murky tension and endless rehashing of conversations

Improve their ability to tell the story of numbers and data, both internally and externally

Co-create inspiring, simple, clear, and actionable visions, goals, and strategies that make the organization's members excited to show up to do their best work

Co-create scoreboards, metrics, and roadmaps that quickly build winning teams with the budgets and constraints they have rather

Clarify their positioning and messaging so that they're not the communities best-kept secret or continually having to fight an uphill battle in justifying their value to the community

Rework their team's workways so that we increase performance and belonging simultaneously

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Services for Non-Profit Clients:

Meeting and retreat facilitation
Leading team workshops
Executive coaching for leaders & managers
Strategy execution advising

"Many people can learn from the world around them and take in massive amounts of information. Very few can understand it all and distill it to a usable, accessible set of frameworks that can be applied to help others, no matter what the situation. Charlie does this with exceptional elegance for the entrepreneurial world. He helped me identify where to spend time and what to focus on to implement a new business strategy and model. Having Charlie as an objective, savvy business advisor is invaluable for not making the same mistakes twice."

Carol Ross

Experience Sectors:

Education, specifically nontraditional higher-ed and early childhood development
Community health (CHCs, PCAs, etc.)
Food distribution networks

Domestic violence
Experiential learning
Progressive religious or spiritual organizations

All of my work has equity and justice foundations. The great promise of the non-profit sector is to build the world we want to live in and nonprofits are, at their core, opinionated about the way the world should be. If you or your organization is not interested in conversations about equity, justice, and diversity – and potentially centering your organization around them – we're not a fit. (And if you think "equity and justice" just means "race conversations," that's something you need to work on.)