Strategy: Shaping Your Nonprofit’s Future
Shifting strategy can be a game-changer for your organization. Whether focused on mission evolution or innovation, Fairmount’s planning services engage clients in a collaborative process that generates and transforms ideas into actionable plans. Our holistic perspective drives your organizational growth and financial resources while advancing culture, values, effective governance, and team retention.
- Strategic Plans: We design and facilitate inclusive planning processes that help chart a viable and flexible course for the future.
- Theory of Change: We ground organizations in articulating the change they want to make in the world and their unique approach and pathways to achieving it.
- Governance Design and Modeling: We develop defined and coordinated leadership structures, processes, and culture to sustain healthy organizations and effective cross-sector initiatives.
- Collaborations, Mergers, and Collective Impact: We convene, align, and scale partnerships for greater impact and organizational resiliency.
- Program Design and Assessment: Our focused approach to landscape research and impact evaluation helps clients design and strengthen promising, evidence-informed service lines.
- Change Management: Our operations and structure expertise helps clients transition smoothly to new models and teams and build the culture and capacity they need to thrive.
Through comprehensive fact-finding, inquiry, and stakeholder engagement and participation, Fairmount creates achievable plans based on evidence-based practices and models tailored to your unique mission, values, talent, and service needs. We structure our point-in-time recommendations so that you can implement them strategically, monitor progress, and make future adaptations in response to environmental change, emergent strategies, unexpected barriers, or new, mission-based opportunities.
Our strategy development process is grounded in our team’s deep understanding of how to generate, synthesize, and translate ideas into realistic plans that have organizational consensus and a sharp focus on revenue. This ensures your plans are not only visionary, but also practical and sustainable.
Contact us today to learn more about how Fairmount’s strategy and planning support can help your organization thrive and achieve its mission.