our services
Strategic Planning & Solutions Design
Focus determines reality | Translate big ideas into a visionary plan for your mission or design a structured solution to complex challenges to focus your work toward a single goal. Set measured goals while engaging your entire organization and board leadership in a collaborative process that unleashes your potential and grows your vision for the future.
Project Examples:
Multi-Year Strategic Plan;
Creating a strategy to manage rapid or sudden change (project management plan)
Research plans & landscape analyses to quickly diagnose an issue or disaggregate a complex challenge to create a plan of action.
Fundraising & Small Business Development
Aligning mission + resources for impact | Reimagine and improve fundraising activities and business operations to advance your mission further. Explore creative ways to maximize resource development strategies. Specializing in culturally-respectful & empowering approaches to fundraising and small business development strategy through digital assets.
Project Examples:
Nonprofit fundraising (grants, individual giving, research, strategy);
Digital asset and resource development;
Process improvement, and;
Business development & strategy to increase revenue opportunities.
Strategic Communications
Unleash the power of words | Elevate your message during times of change through reinvigorating your communications strategy with energizing content that represents your mission. Specializing in messaging, crisis communications, and storytelling.
Project Examples:
Crisis communication;
Marketing and communications strategy;
Drafting and copy editing.
Organizational Learning & Development
Successful adaptation begins with learning | Assess organizational culture and capacity to prepare for change or identify opportunities to improve how to advance your mission. Specializing in needs assessment, process improvement, data analysis, impact measurement, and evaluation process design.
Project Examples:
Survey design to measure customer/client experience or program impact, and;
Creating comprehensive evaluation plans.
Workshops, Facilitation, & Trainings
The possibilities are endless | Advance learning and collaboration through workshops and trainings led through the equity lens that are tailored to the unique needs of your organization. Learn with leading nonprofit disruptors to facilitate exciting new opportunities for your team and board. We also provide facilitation services for dialogue and exploratory sessions. Let us know if there is a specific training area you would like to explore with us.
Project Examples:
“Making an Ask 101” - Training on soliciting individual gifts for development staff and board members;
“We Will Surthrive” - 2-Part Training on managing major organizational crisis;
“Data-Informed Approaches to Program Design” - Workshop on how to apply data-informed approaches to design new programs and funding opportunities; Culturally-Responsive approaches to fundraising
Thought Partnership & Coaching
Bring vision to life | All leaders need trusted confidantes and thought partners. Whether it is preparing to make a big decision or approaching a new leadership challenge, we are here to help you navigate the situations that leaders so often encounter.
Project Examples:
Productivity and task management coaching;
Ideation and strategy sessions around emergent leadership or business challenges;
Executive and management coaching.
What People Are Saying
“As [we were] starting up, the partnership with dsrptq/Caroline was essential in developing an asset based framework in telling our story as an movement and honoring the community that helped build it.”
“Caroline was very supportive in navigating the world of philanthropy, especially for an organization that was not looking to fit the traditional non-profit mold.”