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Striving for Sustainability

You have a long-term goal and a community that will benefit from your mission. It may take years to reach that goal which means you must focus on sustainability if you plan to achieve it. There are many factors that influence your organization’s capacity to become and remain sustainable: leadership and board governance, team engagement, partnerships, funding, marketing, organizational culture and structure, effective programming with monitoring and evaluation practices, and strategic planning. Your ability to establish credibility, demonstrate true impact, and evolve as needed over the lifetime of your mission also plays a critical role in your success.

Many organizations fail within a few short years because they have not given equal attention to their sustainability domains. If you’re feeling stuck or unsure about your progress in any of these areas, hiring a consultant is the perfect solution to get on track with confidence. We can help you assess where you are and plot the most effective course to get you where you want to be in any of the following sustainability areas.

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Sustainable Organizations

  • Strong Leadership

    Directors, managers and supervisors demonstrate integrity, authenticity, and vulnerability in order to create psychological and emotional safety in the workplace. They have a high EQ, stay focused, and know how to coach for success.

  • Sound Governance

    Your board not only holds your organization accountable and ethical, it also advocates for your mission, raises funds, provides support and coaching to the team, builds resiliency, focuses on scalability, and pushes you to grow.

  • Strategic Partnerships

    Your partnerships include individuals, businesses or organizations that expand your reach, improve your credibility, or advance your mission through strategic funds, influence, or capacity, providing an extended network of resources and advocacy.

  • Healthy Culture

    Your culture and core values are defined, nurtured, modeled, and evaluated regularly by leaders at all levels. They attract, engage and retain clients, funders, partners, and high-performing talent to your team.

  • Solutions Focus

    Executive leaders champion operational changes and preserve efficiency through systematic planning and preparation, gaining buy-in, promoting peer leadership, prioritzing flexibility and communication while minimizing disruption.

Sustainable Teams

  • Agile Leadership

    Your organization and team leaders are focused on equipping and empowering their peers to be more effective and productive by recruiting ideas, valuing feedback, sharing power, and prioritizing safety, innovation, and creativity.

  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

    Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values, celebrated because they drive innovation, build resilience, and ensure a stronger capacity to respond to complex challenges. Diverse people and perspectives are authentically engaged.

  • Psychological Safety

    Team members are confident sharing ideas, asking questions, making requests, stating concerns, and admitting mistakes. They operate with freedom in voicing thoughts, feelings, or contradictions without fear, shame, or misgiving.

  • Collaboration Norms

    Team members are committed to behaviors and practices that support established core values. They interact, communicate, share, collaborate, and coordinate with one another in ways that honor and respect each other’s strengths.

  • Growth Mindset

    Team members are self-reflective, self-aware, and seeking opportunities to learn from one another. They desire and value feedback, practice coaching at all levels, incentivize innovation, and prioritze professional development.

Sustainable Impact

  • Clarity

    You succeed because you are crystal clear on your vision, mission, projected outcomes, and the activities you engage in. Collaborators, staff, and supporters know what you do, why you do it, and how you do it, and can explain it to others.

  • Strategy

    Your strategic plan aligns your team, board, and funders to your timeline and framework for success - defining where you’re going, how you’ll get there, and the resources or partners you require along the way. It supports your theory of change.

  • Engagement

    You recognize there is no impact without engagement - from your mission beneficiaries to your team, funders, partners, volunteers, board, and community network. Your quality of engagement hinges on your culture, strategies, and credibility.

  • Commitment to Evolution

    Your biggest differentiator in today’s global landscape is your willingness to adapt and evolve in response to feedback, data, and evaluations - all of which ensure you remain relevant, competitive, and resource-conscious.

  • Credibility

    Your ethics and practices build trust and respect with supporters, partners, volunteers, and mission beneficiaries, attracting new followers and stronger engagement. Your staff and stakeholders are proud ambassadors, drawing new leads and beneficiaries.

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