Mission-driven Organizational Development
What is it?
Our proven process helps clients develop three components that are critical to fully realizing their mission:
- Refining a strategic vision of what the mission is,
- Developing their internal capacity to effectively serve the mission,
- Creating a comprehensive funding model to fuel it.
This transformational focus on building mission-driven infrastructure catapults an organization’s effectiveness to the next level, while enhancing its sustainability and long-term community impact.
What clients are ready for Mission-driven Organizational Development?
If an organization wants to broaden its mission or change its leadership, operations and/or structure in response to internal or external factors, it is ready to work with us on Mission-driven Organizational Development.
What are typical Mission-driven Organizational Development engagements?
- Capacity Building: To connect an organization’s mission and programming with unmet community needs, we help clients become stronger, more sustainable, and more effective in serving their constituents. We conduct community assessments, programmatic analysis, and local and national best practices research.
- Crisis Management and Organizational Adaptation: To help nonprofit decision-makers move forward with confidence, we identify the root causes of crisis, analyze their effect on service delivery, and facilitate a comprehensive evaluation of an organization’s environment. Services include leadership transitions, risk assessment and stabilization, donor and public communication, and immediate response to funding shortfalls.
- Strategic Restructuring: For an organization considering structural change, we focus on methods through which an organization can become more effective through collaboration or consolidation. Our team approach, which may include additional consulting partners, helps clients identify potential nonprofit partners and move toward a strategic alliance, an administrative consolidation, a joint programming venture or a full merger.
What distinguishes Vandever Batten?
With strong relationships forged in the nonprofit and philanthropic communities, Vandever Batten enjoys a ten-year track record of serving as an agent of change for clients throughout the Charlotte region. Given the state of the economy in Charlotte, many nonprofits are struggling to determine how best to meet their missions while undergirding their funding models. We act as a catalyst to keep clients keenly focused on their highest community value while delivering the most effective and efficient services.
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