Summit Consulting Group has the experience, resources and network to meet any need in a social impact organization.
How We Can Help
Strategic Planning
We work closely with executive leadership, board members, key staff and stakeholders to clarify objectives and assess specific challenges. This results in a collaborative outcome with short- and long-term plans that are realistic, measurable, and achievable, with clear, formal timelines for completion.
Organizational Growth
Virtually all social impact organizations feel a need to expand capacity but aren’t sure how to get there. When growth is the goal, we begin by clearly identifying your particular obstacles. Once those are clearly defined, we analyze your mission and the level of its acceptance by staff and stakeholders; organizational culture; resource limitations and opportunities; internal and external communications; and your usage of metrics and accountability tools.
Community & Government Awareness
Employing contemporary marketing and public relations strategies, focused community engagement, and hands-on outreach, we’ll guide you in raising awareness of your mission, work, and how to identify and eliminate the obstacles to additional or continued success.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND SUCCESSION PLANNING
Mission-based organizations often overlook the importance of investing in staff and planning for future leadership. Working supportively with your designated participants, we’ll mutually develop a plan for systemic leadership development, with a focus on the skills relevant to your world. Our guidance in succession planning will dramatically improve your outlook for long-term success and retention of key personnel.
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Things sometimes happen fast, and it’s not uncommon for nonprofit organizations to be surprised by sudden threats to their very sustainability. Abrupt turnover in leadership, unforeseen losses in funding, public relations catastrophes, and an array of other surprises demand calm, prompt and capable attention.
We’ve got your back. We’ll roll up our sleeves. We’ll work with you to construct an effective media and public response plan that’s appropriate to your organization and situation.
IMMEDIATE LEADERSHIP ASSISTANCE
Faced with a sudden or unexpected departure of a CEO, executive or key manager? Our team’s diverse operational experience and skill sets enable us to step into a wide range of managerial vacancies with interim leadership and to keep things moving forward until a permanent replacement is named. We’ll even help with the recruitment and hiring.
The way we operate
Relationships
We cultivate strong and collaborative relationships by listening to, understanding, and addressing the needs of diverse stakeholders.
Transparency
We build trust through open and honest communication, integrity and transparency in all our decisions and actions.
Accountability
We affirm a culture that drives measurable results and meaningful social impact on time and in fulfillment of agreed-upon expectations.
Longevity
We create and implement sustainable strategies and systems that continue to drive lasting and positive change well into the future.
Efficiency
We maximize the impact of all engagements through effective execution, resource optimization and a consistent emphasis on results.
- Case Study
Developing a business model for a project
Summit was asked to help prepare a business model for a small nonprofit seeking to establish a group home and expand its services. This task entailed a review of the proposed operational plan and participant rules for the building, the proposed budget and revenue history. This was followed by a meeting with the organization’s [...]
- Case Study
Interim Leadership
After a frustrating, long and unsuccessful search for its new executive director, a southern Nevada nonprofit asked Summit principal Bart Patterson to serve in the position on an interim basis, while a second search was conducted. Bart agreed to do so. Recognizing the realities of the organization’s budget, Summit structured its contract so that [...]