Charitable organizations that carry a regulatory load.
We serve nonprofit and public organizations — with priority for those working with people who have the least margin for an institution’s failure.
We serve charitable and community-serving organizations: organizations exempt under section 501(c)(3), governmental units, tribal organizations, and public institutions.
We give priority to:
- Organizations serving children, youth, older adults, people with disabilities, families in crisis, people experiencing homelessness, immigrants, survivors of violence, and other communities in need.
- Organizations located in or serving under-resourced communities.
- New, small, or financially constrained organizations.
- Organizations facing an urgent governance, compliance, fiscal, or program-quality risk.
Better-resourced charitable organizations are served at the standard program rate, where the work advances the same capacity-building purpose.
For-profit providers. Parts of the sectors we work in are proprietary rather than charitable. We consider those requests case by case, on written review, rather than as ordinary business.
| Segment | What we bring |
|---|---|
| Licensed child welfare — foster family agencies, intensive services foster care, short-term residential therapeutic programs, adoption agencies, and Resource Family Approval programs | Where we started and where our expertise is deepest: licensing, the approval journey and its documentation, county contracts, accreditation, federal cost principles, confidentiality of juvenile records, and the insurance market. |
| Adjacent licensed human services — behavioral health, substance use, community clinics, developmental services, early childhood, transitional housing and homeless services | The same buyer, the same funding and monitoring environment, and roughly the same systems. Regulatory specifics differ; the infrastructure problem does not. |
| Multi-program nonprofits — education and youth development, workforce, family services, faith-based social services, and community-based organizations of every kind | Governance, finance, workforce, technology, and quality infrastructure, without the licensing overlay. |
| Funders and intermediaries — foundations, county and state agencies, associations, and coalitions strengthening a portfolio of grantees or providers | Cohorts, shared assessments, and published tools that reach many organizations at once. |
Being clear about this saves everyone time, and it protects the quality of what we do deliver.
- Organizations that want the function performed permanently. If the goal is for someone else to own your finance or HR indefinitely, we are the wrong provider, and we will tell you who is not.
- Engagements meant to produce cover rather than change. If the purpose is a report to satisfy a funder with no intention of changing practice, we decline.
- Situations where the real problem is governance or personnel. No system fixes a board that will not govern or an executive who will not be accountable. We say so at the diagnostic and decline the build.
- Direct-care staffing. We do not supply program staff, cover caseloads, or fill vacancies.
- Conflicts we cannot manage. If serving an organization would compromise another client’s confidence in a way disclosure and our information boundary cannot address, we decline and say why.
Tell us about your organization. If we are not the right help, we will say so and point you somewhere better.