Our Services

What we Do Best
Onward consultants approach each engagement with a can-do collaborative spirit and an attitude of customer service. We have a boots-on-the-ground style to help you plan and implement important work. We don’t just identify what needs to be done — we give you options, create tools, and can complete the work with you.

STRATEGY

Organizations have stages of growth (evolution) and change (revolution).  Each stage presents new opportunities and challenges.   As such, strategic plans must be transformational, incremental, a/or operational to fit your organization’s stage of development.

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Organizations are born from and idea that is paired with an opportunity.  Onward helps to develop a sound and aligned organizational model to ensure strategic coherence and maximal impact.

PROGRAM EXCELLENCE

Our clients do meaningful and important work. Their contributions are of paramount importance to a civil society – and they need to be effective, accountable, and efficient. We are here to help.

FUNDRAISING

Fundraising is critical to non-profit success.  Not only does it generate important revenue, but it is often a lever of accountability compelling an organization to distill its programs and impact.  Onward can help you understand your impact and increase, diversify, and sustain your revenue.

THOUGHT PARTNERSHIP

Thought Partners are an important tool to expand your organization’s intellectual capital.  Onward can provide you with a critical peer to help develop and challenge ideas, to share experiences, and to conduct discrete executive-level projects.

CRISIS MANAGEMENT

Occasionally, we face difficult circumstances. Onward can help to assess the situation, identify inherent opportunities, and devise a strategy to address and reconcile difficult circumstances.  We help your organization emerge from crises stronger.

Process

How We Work

Our Approach

Onward approaches each engagement with a can-do collaborative spirit and an attitude of customer service. We have a boots-on-the-ground style to help you plan and implement important work.

We pair you with a proven executive consultant to help you diagnose issues, develop strategic options, manage performance, and finish projects.

We are research-based.  We gather relevant facts and frame the most critical issues to help you make your best decisions. Onward tailors each engagement to the unique opportunities and challenges your organization is facing.

 

Our Promise

We understand mission work we understand value for your money, professionalism, and work delivered on time. This is our promise:

Value: We squeeze quarters out of nickels and bring that same thrift to each client project.

Professionalism: You will never have a missed deadline, an unreturned phone call, or an unfinished product.

Right time: We understand that change takes time and recognize that leaders often need a project executed quickly. We deliver on time at the right time.

Clients

At Onward, we know whom we work for: the homeless, children and families, our planet — the same people you work for. Your mission is our mission, and it demands the best work and best value.