The Opposite of Uncertainty isn't Certainty....

[This is not meant to be a sales pitch. Many clients over the years have gone up and down in total support, as their teams have changed internally, and we wanted to show what that looks like in response to today's landscape.]

There are a lot of people asking questions about the future these days. What will tomorrow hold, how will things be? From the non-profit side, will our funding be there, will our clients and community members still assemble, will our students enroll next year?

The answer isn't certainty, because we've never had certainty with those questions. Everyone in the non-profit space operates on a certain amount of good faith and belief in the mission, that the needs will be there, and the means will materialize, whether through the generosity of lone individuals, or the hard work of development and giving teams.

The answer is Flexibility. You can't control every aspect of the funding. You can't control the views or values of the donors or the community, and how those impact your mission. But you can control your partnerships and your hiring.

We want our clients to have internal resources, independent of us. People who know and are close to the specific organizations, who can understand and represent the mission to us and to the whole community of stakeholders. Our clients thrive when we're able to support and scaffold with these wonderful folks to be able to accomplish more than either of us could individually.

But everyone in this space has chased unicorns before too, people who could do everything, everywhere, all at once. They are very, very rare. In their absence, we want to be to work with your team to keep projects moving forward, to keep everything functioning and getting better.

We're thrilled to work multiple days a week with a client that needs it, or only intermittently if that's what's called for. If you manage to catch a unicorn, awesome, maybe you need us much less. But maybe a little, so your unicorn can do what they're best at, and so you have continuity if they wander on, as they often do.