Pricing

Services & Pricing

SOLID RETURNS, TRANSPARENT PRICING

Our pricing framework is based on the value we create, not the hours we spent. We spend as much time as needed, involve as many team members as necessary for the same fee, and we do surgical interventions to keep costs down for our clients. We charge as follows:

Project pricing  – based on timeline and deliverables

Ongoing engagement cost  – starts at $5,200/month based on scope of work. Six months minimum. Package includes work meeting(s), and/or prep, docs review, communiques and recommendations. (The startup package includes 1 monthly meeting of up to 4 hrs. or 4 weekly meetings of 1 hrs. each.) Grant due diligence work billed separately.

Day rate  – $3,650 (up to 6 hrs. + 2 hrs. prep). For staff/board retreats, strategy, optimization efforts, etc.

Hourly rate  – $397

Dive Session  – $697 flat fee (includes  reading/research + 1 hr. meeting + analysis and recommendations).

Tweak Session  – $925 flat fee for 4-hr intensives on a particular topic. (Can be used in 1 X 3 hr. session or 2 X 1.5 hrs. sessions. Additional hours are billed at regular hourly rate.)

SERVICES

We are strategists, co-creating with our clients custom solutions to solve real-world problems in a wide range of focus areas. We go as deep or as broad as the client needs, for quick interventions or for the long haul. We train, we design, we implement and manage in a cost effective way. We provide support and know-how for a wide range of social change strategies. We bring passion, humility, deep expertise, and a constant desire to listen and focus on our clients.

New Foundation Set-up

  • Develop the basics (Vision, Mission, processes, structures, etc.)
  • Interim foundation management
  • Development of a portfolio of initiatives that create concrete results
  • Initiative management & back-office support
  • Introductions to potential partners and experts
  • Facilitation of accelerating conversations

 

Project Incubation/Management

For funders who want to achieve impact in a specific area without handling the complexity directly, we design, test, conduct due diligence, find partners and experts, and manage initiatives in a cost effective way that resonates with community needs on the ground. We identify what works for any given philanthropic goal and then implement it in the fastest, most effective way possible.

 

Support for Established Foundations

  • Business model development for bold visions
  • Development of PPPPs (Public-Private-Philanthropic Partnerships)
  • Capacity building for initiatives
  • R & D
  • Benchmarking
  • Facilitation of retreats and difficult conversations
  • Executive Coaching
  • Process development & Assessments

Positioning & Model Design 

We get you to your “do-good” model (be it impact, CSR, or philanthropy) and integrate it with your existing business model in a way that works for both.

We POSITION YOU at the intersection of the social sector, the business sector, and the political sector. While this seems to us a key piece of the puzzle, it turns out that most comms agencies and strategy firms overlook it!

 

Ongoing Support for Implementation & Management

The best models in the world, are only as good as the extent to which they get execute. Most consulting teams do not touch this, because this is hard. We are with you all the way if you need it:

  • We take whatever you care about – from workforce development to democracy, disease prevention, longevity, education, the environment, etc. – and create the actual processes for you to make the world a better place while generating revenue, keeping your stakeholders happy, and deepening market penetration.
  • We help measure the positive change you are creating – locally or internationally.

 

Messaging Strategies

While most of our clients have comms staff and dedicated external media support, they seem to benefit greatly from our expertise in the following areas:

  • Overall acceleration and growth
  • Position your ideas for buy-in and approval of internal stakeholders (Boards, teams, shareholders, investors, regulators, etc.)
  • Make sure people can see that superhero cape!
  • Help tweak comms to showcase the value of the new things you are doing, and the positive intent you have towards the world and your community. We also help tweak comms to showcase how impact strengthens market share and product value.
  • Intentionally and specifically target messaging that increases the visibility and perception of your brand.
  • Provide access to the biggest, most prestigious, key international stages of our time. Is there a gathering of movers and shakers anywhere in the world you want to access? We might make it happen, accelerating you and your goals.

 

Executive Coaching

  • We bring know-how for impact creation.
  • We highlight meaning and showcase the ways in which the purpose-driven work makes it easier for employees to have ownership of the company mission, intrinsic motivation, and a healthier culture. You are welcome!
  • We become thinking partners for your C-level team, hold confidential space, and strengthen their executive presence in difficult times
  • We bring an infusion of energy and resilience to tense navigations of politics and business hurdles of many kind

Growth

  • Overcoming barriers
  • Fast strategic planning
  • Scale and replication efforts
  • Measuring impact

 

Leadership

  • Executive Coaching
  • Board strengthening and management
  • Leadership development and support
  • Interim governance issues
  • New ED onboarding and transitioning
  • Succession planning
  • Strategic transition of funder’s leadership role

 

Operations

  • Increasing operational efficiency
  • Capacity building
  • Developing partnerships
  • Building structures and priorities
  • Process optimization
  • Program development
  • Taking “it” to the next level

 

Capital Galvanization & Fundraising*

  • Building A Fundraising Machine – the tools, systems, and processes for fund development success
  • Creating fund development plans
  • Strengthening fundraising strategies
  • Facilitating dialogues with funders
  • Diversifying revenue streams
  • Turning data into money
  • Pitching to funders with you; shaping grant requests
  • Effective ways to stand out from the crowd
  • Raising awareness of the work

* Because we work with both investors and fund seekers, we cannot fundraise with you; if needed, we provide a hand-off to our working partners.

With sense of humor and an ability to flex towards the direction in which the universe pulls us, we like to take on odd, exploratory tasks that might not yield quantifiable outcomes while still being worth the exploration.  Sometimes change-driven work is about where not to go, or about simply learning what is “there” before making decisions. And we are not shy about tackling the seemingly insurmountable either.