Service to Clients

How We Can Help Your Organization

Change is everywhere today, and both non-profit organizations and individuals need to be able to manage it to survive. Third Sector New England’s Organizational Transitions Practice is prepared to help you make the right decisions about a transiiton for your nonprofit. Our commitment is to your organization and how we can best accomplish your mission.

We work with a whole systems approach. We engage the perspective of multiple stakeholders to ensure sustainable results for your organization, helping you deepen the impact you have within the communities you serve.

Organizational Transition Areas We Support

Third Sector New England has experience supporting a range of organizational transitions and can help you develop:

• New organizational forms: Such as becoming fiscally sponsored to lower administrative costs and focus core programming, or helping you and others create efficiencies through economies of scale, co-locating, sharing staff and/or programs through shared services strategies
• Staff transitions: We can help with growth scenario planning and policy/regulatory and the human aspect of reducing staff through lay-offs or closure
• Strategic alliances: A strategic restructuring that can range from shared services or programs by 2 or more nonprofits to full merger, the creation of a new organization that integrates all program and administrative functions to increase quality and efficiency
• Closing/Divestiture – Closing or shifting some or all programmatic activities to another entity to continue the mission
• Succession plans for all levels of staff and board – preparing for future transitions
• Short-term action plans to get you moving on change strategies

How We Work

Our TSNE Organizational Transition staff and consultants:

• Listen to your story. What are you feeling you need help with?
• Help you take a step back. For example, you may call us saying that the board would like to explore merger. We may work with you to look at many options up to and before merger before making this decision.
• Conduct data driven assessments that provide facts and information about the situation. We work with you to mine the information and knowledge that you hold but has sometimes not been organized in such a way to support critical decision-making.
• Ensure organizational cultural alignment during and after transitional periods.
• Create and facilitate decision-making processes.
• Support the design and implementation of next steps.

Expert Support

TSNE brings a core of experienced organizational development and specialist consultants who are trained in holding change processes in healthy, timely ways. The organizational development consultants are expert at the key elements of analyzing change – assessment/data collecting, decision-making/organizational alignment and implementation phases. TSNE Specialists in financial analysis, legal areas such as labor law or merger due diligence, fund development and other key fields are included as needed.

Costs?

TSNE is a nonprofit itself. Our costs reflect that fact and the quality of our work reflects the commitment we have to fulfill our mission of providing knowledge, power and effectiveness to those nonprofits we serve.