Expert Business Help for Your Nonprofit
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Upcoming Information Sessions for Nonprofits
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Why Work With Us
Bespoke Results
Customized recommendations for your organization
Personalized data analytics
Tailored market research
Thought partner support
Actionable Recommendations
Detailed presentations to your leadership & board
Financial models & analytic tools adapted for your situation
Facilitated focus groups and strategy sessions
Lasting Impact
New connections to the local business community
Authentic, equitable relationships with local business leaders
New champions and supporters
Challenges We Can Help Solve
Select a service area below to explore how we can help.
“We need to decide between expanding services or deepening current programs.
We’re at a crossroads: should we expand into new service areas or focus on strengthening what we already do? We need analysis to make an informed decision.”
How We Can Help
Our team will help you evaluate both options through a comprehensive analysis of your organizational capacity, market demand, financial implications, and mission alignment. We’ll provide a decision framework with clear recommendations based on data, stakeholder input, and sector best practices.
Example Outcomes
– Comparative analysis of expansion vs. deepening scenarios
– Financial models showing 3-year projections for each option
– Stakeholder input summary from beneficiaries, staff, and funders
– Decision recommendation with implementation roadmap
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“We need to recruit board members with specific expertise.
Our board lacks key skills in finance, fundraising, or other areas. We need help identifying the right skill gaps and recruiting qualified board members.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team will help you assess your current board composition, identify critical skill gaps, develop compelling board member profiles, and create a targeted recruitment strategy. We’ll provide templates for outreach, interview guides, and onboarding materials to ensure new board members can contribute effectively from day one.
Example Outcomes
– Board skills matrix identifying 3-5 critical gaps
– Targeted recruitment strategy with potential candidate sources
– Board member job descriptions and interview guides
– Onboarding toolkit for new board members
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“We need to diversify our funding sources.
We’re too dependent on one or two major funders. We need a strategy to diversify our revenue streams and reduce financial risk.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team can help analyze your current funding portfolio, identify high-potential revenue opportunities, and create a diversification roadmap. They can also evaluate options such as individual giving, corporate partnerships, earned revenue, and new foundation prospects, then prioritize them based on your capacity and mission fit.
Example Outcomes
– Funding portfolio analysis with concentration risk assessment
– Revenue diversification strategy identifying 3-5 new funding streams
– Prospect research for foundations, corporations, or major donors
– Multi-year implementation roadmap with resource requirements
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“We’re exploring launching a new program or service.
We see unmet community needs that align with our mission, but we need analysis to determine if we should launch a new program and how to do it sustainably.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team can assess community need, evaluate your organizational capacity, model financial sustainability, and design a pilot program. Their analysis will show you whether this new program is viable, how to fund it, and what resources you’ll need to succeed.
Example Outcomes
– Community needs assessment with data on demand and gaps
– Program design, including logic model, activities, and outcomes
– Financial sustainability analysis with funding recommendations
– Pilot program plan with success metrics
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“We need to redesign our organizational structure.
Our current org structure doesn’t support our strategy. Roles are unclear, we have gaps in capacity, and reporting lines don’t make sense anymore.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team can assess your current structure, analyze workflow and decision-making, and design a new organizational model aligned with your strategy. Their recommendations will clarify roles, optimize team structure, and create clear accountability while managing the change sensitively.
Example Outcomes
– Current state organizational assessment
– Redesigned org chart with clear reporting lines and role definitions
– Job descriptions for new or modified positions
– Change management and transition plan
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“We’re considering a merger or formal partnership with another nonprofit.
We’ve been in preliminary discussions with another organization about merging or forming a strategic partnership, but need help evaluating if it’s the right move.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team can conduct due diligence on both organizations, assess strategic fit, model financial implications, and identify integration risks and opportunities. They’ll provide an objective analysis to help you decide whether to move forward and, if so, how to structure and execute the partnership or merger.
Example Outcomes
– Organizational compatibility assessment across 8-10 dimensions
– Financial models comparing standalone vs. merged scenarios
– Risk analysis and mitigation strategies
– Go/no-go recommendation with integration roadmap if proceeding
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“We need a comprehensive marketing and communications strategy.
We’re doing marketing activities, but don’t have a cohesive strategy. We need help reaching our target audiences more effectively and measuring our impact.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team can assess your current marketing efforts, define target audiences and their journeys, and create an integrated marketing strategy. The plan can cover channels, content, campaigns, and measurement, along with templates and a realistic implementation roadmap.
Example Outcomes
– Audience segmentation and personas for 3-5 key groups
– Integrated marketing strategy across digital and traditional channels
– Content calendar and campaign plans for year 1
– Marketing measurement framework with KPIs and tracking plan
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“We need to assess and improve our financial sustainability.
We’re concerned about our long-term financial health. We need analysis of our financial model and recommendations to ensure sustainability.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team will conduct a comprehensive financial health assessment, analyzing revenue stability, cost structure, cash flow, and reserves. They’ll develop scenarios, identify risks, and provide recommendations to strengthen your financial position and build long-term sustainability.
Example Outcomes
– Financial health assessment with key ratio analysis
– 3-year financial projections under multiple scenarios
– Risk assessment identifying key vulnerabilities
– Sustainability recommendations with implementation priorities
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“We want to use data and AI to improve our programs and operations.
We collect data but don’t use it effectively. We want to explore how data analytics and AI could help us increase our impact and efficiency.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team can assess your data maturity, identify high-value use cases for data and AI, and develop an implementation roadmap. Their recommendations will be practical and achievable, focusing on quick wins while building toward more advanced capabilities over time.
Example Outcomes
– Data maturity assessment
– Prioritized use cases for data analytics and AI (3-5 opportunities)
– Proof of concept for the highest-priority use case
– Data and AI roadmap with implementation phases
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
“Our programs aren’t aligned with our mission and strategy.
Over time, we’ve added programs that may not fit our core mission. We need to assess our portfolio and ensure everything aligns with our strategic direction.”
How We Can Help
Your pro bono consulting team will assess each program against criteria like mission fit, impact, financial sustainability, and demand. Your team will provide recommendations on which programs to grow, maintain, revise, or sunset, along with a transition plan for any changes.
Example Outcomes
– Program portfolio assessment framework
– Analysis of each program across mission fit, impact, and sustainability
– Portfolio recommendations (grow/maintain/revise/sunset)
– Transition plan for recommended changes
These are example outcomes. Actual deliverables are customized to each nonprofit’s goals, context, and specific challenge.
of nonprofits would recommend Compass Pro Bono to another nonprofit
of nonprofits rate our volunteer work as good as or better than paid consultants
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Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions about pro bono consulting with Compass Pro Bono? Here are answers to the most common questions from nonprofits.
Is this service really free for nonprofits?
Yes, absolutely! Volunteers from the corporate sector donate their time and expertise.
What if our challenge doesn’t fit neatly into one category?
Most nonprofit challenges are interconnected! Schedule a scoping call during our application window to discuss your situation or help prioritize which challenge to tackle first.
Who are the volunteers?
Our volunteers are professionals from leading companies across industries, including consultants, strategists, marketers, technologists, HR professionals, and business leaders. They’re carefully vetted and matched based on their expertise and your specific needs.
What will my nonprofit receive at the end of the project?
You’ll receive a comprehensive deliverable tailored to your challenge. This could be a strategic plan, implementation roadmap, financial model, marketing strategy, technology recommendations, or other actionable tools and frameworks.
How involved does our staff need to be?
Your team’s involvement is crucial! Plan for 2-5 hours per week for meetings, information sharing, and collaboration. The volunteers bring expertise, but you bring the organizational knowledge and context needed for success.
What happens after the project ends?
You’ll have everything you need to implement the recommendations. Many nonprofits stay in touch with their volunteer teams for informal advice, and you’re always welcome to apply for help with new challenges in the future.
What if I need more support than a volunteer team can provide?
We have low bono strategic planning and low bono AI options. Our unique model gives you access to the depth and expertise of a full consulting team below the usual cost.
“The Compass team provided invaluable assistance to our strategic planning process. Their “heavy lift“ allowed our staff to focus on our mission. I would not hesitate to recommend their engagement to my colleagues.“
“Working with Compass will add value to our organization now and in years to come. We were fortunate to have such qualified and intelligent folks to work with and who cared enough to be connected to the mission of Bringing Hope Home. We’re very grateful.”
“Through Compass, our organization received thoughtful, practical recommendations to improve our corporate engagement, volunteer programs, and fundraising events. This support will empower our organization to generate more revenue and build a strong, diverse talent pipeline for our Board and Associate Board.“
“The final product was exactly what was requested and what we needed. In addition to providing the information that we asked for, which was to synthesize stakeholder input on our program services, it also created a more engaged dialogue from my board members than we have had at a meeting in a long time. My group is now energized and ready to move on to our next action steps.”
“Working with a Compass team on Technology Strategies has been a game changer for our non-profit. We all know to ask questions and listen to people who have expertise in the areas of interest. That’s just what we did. The team had ideas that never dawned on any of us on the staff or Board as to ways to streamline processes to be as efficient as possible. Utilizing technology to enhance the client satisfaction is such a wonderful way for us to continue serving our clients personally but with the edge of new technology implementations to make it easier and quicker.”
“The experience I have had working with Compass the last two years has been incredible. The volunteers they have pulled together for us have brought such valuable insight and perspective to our projects and have been so helpful in aiding us in decision making and processes that we are implementing to help drive our organization into the future!”
“Compass is incomparable in its ability to offer hundreds of hours of analysis and support providing an honest and unbiased analysis of a business. Our organization would have never been able to afford this kind of research. The advice provided from a third party inspired and motivated the whole organization to embrace positive change.”
“This is one of the greatest donations we have ever received! Our team took the time to really understand our organization. They visited and helped out during our busiest times, checked in frequently, and supported us in more ways than we could have hoped. At Neighbors Helping Neighbors on the Main Line, we feel like a stronger nonprofit, thanks to the support of Compass!”
“Thank you Compass Pro Bono team for your hard work and dedication to supporting nonprofits. We have gained valuable insights that will guide us in our funding strategy in the future. We look forward to implementing the excellent recommendations that our team provided. We are grateful for the incredible opportunity!“
“The Compass team was so incredibly genuine – they not only were committed to the work, they were truly interested and seemed to be having such fun helping us. They were an incredible bunch of people and each brought a different skill set to the project. It was an incredible experience.”
“Our volunteer Compass team was highly competent, communicative and passionate about the work they were doing for us. The project managers were professional, communicative, helpful and easy to work with. They came to visit the site and had multiple meetings with myself (executive director) and our board. The result of the project will help us make an informed decision on making an even greater impact in our community.”
“As the Executive Director of a small nonprofit, we don’t have the resources to engage external consultants and we had a long list of dream projects and priorities that were on the backburner. When the Compass opportunity came along, it was a win-win.“
“Our Compass volunteers brought incredible skills and knowledge to a key research project we have been eager to explore for some time. Through the work of these amazing pro bono consultants, we were able to conduct a market analysis of a major growth area for our organization and build an implementation plan that our board and staff can put into action!”
“The team did an amazing job. They went above and beyond in the depth and preparation of this project. They listened to feedback, were eager to learn, and were deeply interested in ensuring that the finished product would be utilized and effective.”
“Engaging with Compass allowed us to see our organization from an outsider’s perspective. As a small-but-growing nonprofit, we are grateful that the team was able to analyze our current state and make recommendations for future growth.”
