Solutions to your hardest problems
Nonprofits and mission-driven organizations of all types come to Altruist for proven, practical solutions to their toughest challenges.
Our mission is to help you make even your most ambitious social impact goals a reality.
Performance Assessment
Comprehensive report with mission-critical information.
Learn MoreBusiness Planning
World-class, investment-grade business plans.
Learn MoreFundraising, Earned Revenue, Impact Capital
Revenue models that are best for you.
Learn MoreImpact Evaluations & Dashboards
Accurate metrics and concise dashboards.
Learn MoreOrganization & Board Development
World-class, investment-grade business plans.
Learn MoreGrant Writing
Win new public and private funds.
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Performance Benchmarking
In just a few weeks, nonprofits can gain new insight about their performance around mission-critical capabilities around staffing, planning, finance, evaluation, and more. The Altruist Mission Performance Assessment delivers clear, actionable recommendations on how to improve teamwork, enhance governance, sharpen evaluation, accelerate outcomes, and identify new ways to earn and raise more money.
• A “Performance Index” tailored for you: specific & accurate measures of what’s working and what needs correction
• Detailed analysis of the 50 most important variables influencing organizational success
• Spotlight underlying causes of organizational friction and uncaptured potential
• Fundraising troubleshooting and opportunity identification
• Short, specific, actionable recommendations for improved board & staff function, team alignment & engagement
• Target opportunity for improved program design, use of data, efficiency and effectiveness of program execution
Business Planning
Too many nonprofit plans fall short of what’s necessary to align teams, define growth, measure programs, or create confidence in funders. Altruist helps you develop a world-class, investment-grade business plan that clearly, concisely defines success and exactly how it will be achieved. It catalyzes teamwork among and between boards and staff and creates an exceptionally strong fundraising and evaluation platform.
• Provides an actionable roadmap with clear, compelling goals, crisp strategy, growth milestones, key metrics, financial projections and more
• Gives boards new insights for effective governance, teamwork, and fundraising
• Creates new pathways for stronger corporate, government and nonprofit partnerships
• Defines powerful strategies for dramatically accelerating earned and contributed revenue
• Enables crisp, concrete program evaluation and impact reporting
• Supports organizational development with a flexible, adaptable platform that fosters agility and resilience
Fundraising Acceleration
We provide complete, end-to-end support that dramatically accelerates and sustains client revenue from earned, contributed and even invested sources. Our engagements cover planning, strategy and operations; staff recruiting, hiring and training; all tools, templates and database protocols; board engagement; and continuous performance monitoring and improvement.
You’ll learn which types of revenue are best for you and follow a step-by-step process to spark and sustain your revenue growth.
• Gifts and grants, public & private
• Earned income and entrepreneurial initiatives
• Impact capital
• New 6 – and 7- figure contributions
• Endowments & planned giving
• Monitoring, evaluation and continuous improvement
Impact Evaluation & Dashboards
Social impact requires clear, compelling, focused data. We help you target, collect and analyze and report the right metrics for your mission. Get the right information at the right time for focused decision making and compelling outcome reporting. that elevates your relationship with partners, funders and investors.
• Quantitative and qualitative program assessment
• Leading & lagging metrics identification
• Quality improvement
• Clear, concise, compelling reports that illustrate your social impact
• Data collection and workflow process
• Actionable direction for organizational development and growth
Organizational & Board Development
Organizations of all types struggle with board engagement, staff alignment and execution, and nonprofits are no different. With our deep expertise in leadership, change management and organizational development, we are proven catalysts for creating focused, aligned, engaged governance, staff and volunteer teams.
• Team alignment, strategy definition, program design
• Disciplined and focused organizational execution
• Create consensus and buy-in around key organizational direction
• Cultural assessment and development
Grant Writing
Altruist’s team of top-tier grant writing professionals can help you win new public and private funds.
Your Partner for Funding Success
Nonprofit executives and fundraising teams are often consumed with grant research and writing, functions outside experts can perform with greater effectiveness and at lower cost. We offer clients support from some of the best grant experts in the country, ready to share their expertise and ong0ing support.