Core Consulting Services
Bridging clarity to your operational systems so you can focus on the meaningful work of impacting your community as agents of change!
Part of effective management is proper delegation and financial stewardship. Many nonprofit founders, public service leaders, and business leaders have enormous skill, but little time.
While it may be the ultimate goal to hire full-time staff, it is widely known that hiring contract work often cuts salary costs by nearly half of your current budget.
Let The Strategy Huddle take some burden off of you and your team so you can focus on more pressing day-to-day issues and achieve operational excellence.
We provide consulting and implementation services dedicated to helping your organization grow in
operational excellence.
- Organizational Development and Operational StrategyThe purpose of program evaluation is to first clarify assumptions through specific evaluation procedures, identify specific issues, and implement proven and innovative solutions. The outcome is the enhancement of current processes to produce more effective results.
Evaluation and process improvement involves a review and analyzation of your organization's systems to identify roadblocks and core operational issues in effort to help identify proven solutions and establish more effective systems and practices.
After assessing your organization's processes and current program operations, recommendations are made to develop greater efficiency in your organization's processes and current program operations, the project is managed to update your SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures), implement recommended solutions, and measure and track performance. Our process involves research and planning.- Organizational and program assessment and evaluation
- Process and operational improvement
- Workforce planning and talent strategy, including:
- ->Organizational culture and employee engagement assessment
- ->Workforce capacity and employee retention strategies
- ->Role alignment, job design, and position description review
- ->Workload analysis and staff capacity planning
- Change management
- Strategic planning
- Program design and development
- Data Strategy and Technology ImplementationMany organizations are paying for technology and databases that their staff struggles to understand and use efficiently. This impacts productivity and effectiveness.
We're experienced with more than 30 technology and SaaS programs!
The Strategy Huddle focuses on your organization's data infrastructure and its stategic systems. Data Strategy and Technology Implementation involves an assessment of your organization’s data processes: data collection, client onboarding, data entry, and data management, including CRM and program administration databases. Upon identifying specific issues and solutions, recommendations are provided to improve the current systems and strategies and to develop a more efficient process. You don't have to worry about the complications around technology - we take the total lead of implementation and training.
Following the assessment, we'll:- Provide recommendations are provided regarding systems, processes, and strategies
- Create management tools
- Train staff and leaders to use new systems or new ways to use established systems to drive productivity and gain more satisfying results, and
- Manage the implementation of new processes while measuring performance.
This process prepares the organization for successful program reporting to better analyze outcomes, guide strategy sessions, and generate funding support.- Data systems assessment
- Strategic data management, including:
- ->Data collection and management process design
- ->Data governance and reporting frameworks (for funding and grant compliance)
- CRM & database systems implementation (including data migration)
- SaaS workflow development and systems integration
- Funding Strategy and Compliance ManagementGrant writing is a specialty service of The Strategy Huddle, and involves the full-range of your entire grant management process. In most packages, besides research and writing, services includes keeping track of grant application statuses, tracking report due dates, and writing and submitting reports.
*Various complementary resources are included in most packages.
Specific components of the Grant Writing service include:- Funding strategy development
- Grant research
- Grant proposal development
- Grant reporting (included in the All-Inclusive package) and compliance advisory services
- Public finance and budget strategy
A Structured Workflow That Takes You from Chaos to Clarity.
Integrated Program Strategy (IPS)
Ensuring an inter-connected strategy across organizational functions.
The Integrated Program Strategy (IPS) is the firm's signature service that ensures the alignment of organizational and program operations, strategic data management, and grant writing and compliance for organizational effectiveness and long-term sustainability.
IPS combines core consulting services with a focus on alignment across each area.
We use assessment-driven organizational development and process improvement to identify gaps across operations and systems, and translate those insights into targeted strategies to align operational systems, data infrastructure, and fundraising into a cohesive, execution-ready framework.
Organizational Development and Operational Strategy
Bottlenecks are identified. Systems are clarified and aligned with organizational goals. Operations are now effecient and lend to effective outcomes.
Data Strategy and Technology Implementation
Data collection and management is streamlined for success. Your database is used effectively for program management, decision-making, and seamless reporting.
Funding Strategy and Compliance Management
A strategic fundraising plan has been developed. Program outlines and clear, easily accessible data is used to craft compelling messages for public and private support. The data is strategically managed to support funding compliance.
New Program Development
In New Program Development, we guide the outline of the planning and implementation for the piloting of new programs within your organization. This is a minimum 1 year program.
Developing new programs with The Strategy Huddle involve project planning and management of the following components and 8 phases:
Developing new programs with The Strategy Huddle involve project planning and management of the following components and 8 phases:
- Needs Assessment and Initial Research
- Strategic Operational Planning
- Resource Planning
- Fundraising Planning
- Marketing & Community Engagement
- Program Launch
- Program Monitoring and Evaluation
- Sustainability Planning
- Examples of Relevant Project Management
- Create and manage spreadsheets for program registration, event registration, project planning, project management, and payment transaction management
- Announcements and program books for events such as conferences, graduations, inductions, promotions, and more
- Manuals and standard operating procedures
- Software migration, training, and implementation
Additional Supportive Services can be viewed on this page.
Featured Clients & Reviews
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Grant Writing and Web Design for new multi-million dollar construction project, Chicago, Illinios.
"She is adept at crafting new ideas and enhancing program efficiency across a wide range of nonprofit and mission-driven organizational structures....Cheriamor’s ability to communicate effectively, manage cross-functional teams, and her knowledge of nonprofit operations drive strategic goals making her an asset to community-focused initiatives". -
New Program Development for new women's health program, Chicago, Illinois.
"Cheriamor's recommendations improved our operational efficiency and enabled us to meet critical milestones, including the successful completion of 300 wellness surveys required for pilot program funding. She also introduced effective project management tools and strategies that enhanced our workflow and outcomes." -
Print Design & Data Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
"Thank you so much. You have been so helpful & very prompt and you communicate very effectively! It was a pleasure working with you!"
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