What We Do
Nonprofit Consulting That Builds Strategy With Stakeholders at the Center
Prosper Strategies helps nonprofits build strategic plans, advisory solutions, and communications strategies rooted in the priorities of the people and communities they exist to serve.
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Most nonprofit strategies fail because they are shaped by a small group of decision-makers without meaningful input from the people closest to the mission.
Boards, funders, staff, partners, and community members all have important roles to play, but too often those roles are unclear and power is out of balance.
Prosper Strategies helps nonprofits change that.
Through our Shared Power™ philosophy, we help nonprofit leaders build strategies that are informed by stakeholders, grounded in evidence, and designed to move from planning to action. Whether you need a full strategic planning process, focused advisory support, or communications strategy, our work helps your organization clarify priorities, strengthen alignment, and increase its impact.
Our services are organized into three areas: Planning, Advisory, and Communications.
What Does Prosper Strategies Do?
Prosper Strategies is a nonprofit consulting firm that helps organizations build stronger strategies through three core service areas: Planning, Advisory, and Communications.
Across all three, our work is grounded in our Shared Power™ philosophy, which helps nonprofits center the priorities of the people and communities they exist to serve while clarifying the roles of boards, staff, funders, partners, and other stakeholders.
We work exclusively with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations, helping leaders engage stakeholders, clarify priorities, make better decisions, communicate more effectively, and build strategies that move missions forward.
Three Ways We Help Nonprofits Build Stronger Strategies
Whether your organization needs a full strategic planning process, focused advisory support, or communications strategy, Prosper Strategies helps you move from complexity to clarity and from intention to action.
Strategic planning your organization can own and implement
Strategic planning is the heart of our work. We help nonprofits set clear priorities, engage the right stakeholders, build measurable objectives and key results, and create plans that actually get implemented.
Because every organization has a different budget, timeline, and level of internal capacity, we offer four strategic planning pathways, from self-guided tools to full-service consulting.
- Nonprofit Strategic Planning Toolbox — self-guided planning tools starting at $279
- Shared Power™ Strategic Planning Workshops — group support starting at $2,500
- Facilitation-Only Strategic Planning — expert facilitation starting at $35,000
- Full-Service Strategic Planning — end-to-end consulting starting at $70,000
Focused support for high-stakes leadership moments
Not every leadership challenge calls for a full consulting engagement. Sometimes you need a trusted outside advisor to help you diagnose what is really happening, pressure-test your thinking, and build a practical path forward.
Our advisory services are focused, time-bound, and designed for nonprofit leaders who need clarity now.
- CEO First-Year Roadmap — a 12-month advisory engagement for new nonprofit CEOs and executive directors
- Strategic Clarity Sessions — two half-day strategy intensives for urgent, single-issue challenges
Communications strategy that helps people understand, trust, and act on your work
Your nonprofit’s strategy only matters if people understand it, believe in it, and know how to act on it. We help nonprofits clarify their stories, strengthen their brands, and build communications strategies that support fundraising, advocacy, awareness, engagement, and impact.
Our communications work connects what your organization is trying to achieve with the people you need to reach.
Choose the Strategic Planning Path That Fits Your Nonprofit
Every nonprofit deserves a strong strategic plan, but not every organization needs the same level of outside support. Prosper Strategies offers four strategic planning pathways so your organization can choose the right fit based on budget, internal capacity, stakeholder complexity, and timeline.
Nonprofit Strategic Planning Toolbox
Small nonprofits with capable leaders who can run the process internally using our proven tools, templates, retreat decks, surveys, OKR dashboards, and rollout resources.
The Nonprofit Strategic Planning Toolbox gives your team the structure and resources to run a Shared Power™ strategic planning process on your own. It is the most accessible way to build a clear, stakeholder-informed plan without hiring a consultant.
Shared Power™ Strategic Planning Workshops
Small to mid-sized nonprofits that want expert guidance and peer feedback while developing strategic pillars, OKRs, and implementation tools in a group setting.
Our workshops give nonprofit leaders a guided, collaborative way to build the core components of a strategic plan. You come prepared with research and mission/vision work completed in advance, then use the workshop to develop strategic pillars, draft OKRs, and receive feedback from Prosper and peer leaders.
Facilitation-Only Strategic Planning
Nonprofits with internal capacity that want expert structure, research support, retreat facilitation, OKR development guidance, and implementation planning support.
Facilitation-only strategic planning is designed for organizations that can own parts of the process internally, but need an outside facilitator to bring structure, objectivity, and strategic expertise. Your team leads stakeholder engagement with our guidance, while we support the process through research, planning sessions, retreat facilitation, and implementation guidance.
Full-Service Strategic Planning
Larger, growing, or complex nonprofits that need a consulting partner to lead the full process from research and stakeholder engagement through rollout and implementation support.
Full-service strategic planning is our most comprehensive engagement. We manage the full process so your team can focus on participation, decision-making, and stakeholder engagement rather than logistics. The result is a deeply researched, stakeholder-centered plan built for implementation.
Not sure which strategic planning option fits?
Download the Strategic Planning Decision Guide or view all strategic planning options to compare each pathway by budget, internal capacity, stakeholder complexity, and level of outside support.
All of Our Work Is Grounded in Shared Power™
Most nonprofit strategies fail because they are shaped by boards and funders alone, without meaningful ongoing input from the people and communities the organization exists to serve. Roles are not always clear, power is often skewed, and implementation suffers because the people closest to the work do not fully own the direction.
Through our Shared Power™ philosophy, we help everyone get into the right roles and rebalance power so your strategies can actually move the needle on your mission. This means boards governing, staff leading on expertise, funders enabling the mission, and the people you exist to serve at the center of every decision that shapes the work.
When power is shared, strategies are transformational.
Why Nonprofits Choose Prosper Strategies
We work exclusively with nonprofits and mission-driven organizations. That means we understand the realities of nonprofit governance, stakeholder dynamics, funding pressures, community accountability, and mission impact.
We bring nonprofit-specific expertise.
We have helped nonprofits of many sizes and issue areas clarify priorities, engage stakeholders, strengthen communications, and build strategies they can actually implement.
We center the people your organization exists to serve.
Our approach moves beyond boardroom-only strategy and ensures the priorities of your stakeholders and community meaningfully shape the work.
We connect strategy to implementation.
Whether we are supporting a full strategic plan, an advisory engagement, or a communications strategy, we help you turn decisions into measurable progress.
We offer multiple levels of support.
You do not always need a full consulting engagement. Our service ladder gives nonprofits a way to choose the right level of support based on budget, internal capacity, and complexity.
What Nonprofits Can Expect From Working With Prosper Strategies
When you work with Prosper Strategies, you can expect greater clarity, stronger alignment, and strategies that are built to move from planning to action.
- ✓Clearer strategic priorities
- ✓Deeper understanding of stakeholder and community needs
- ✓Stronger board, staff, and leadership alignment
- ✓More effective stakeholder engagement
- ✓More focused communications and messaging
- ✓Better systems for accountability and implementation
- ✓More confidence in major decisions
- ✓Greater impact for the people and communities you serve
Explore Our Nonprofit Strategy Work
We work with nonprofits like yours to tackle complex challenges and build smart strategies that are aligned with the priorities of their stakeholders. Browse some of our recent projects to see how.
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