Envoy’s strategy practice works with organizations at pivotal stages of growth to support new initiatives and the expansion of high-quality work. Our team has experience developing and implementing strategic plans, building multi-year revenue and expense projections, creating communications and fundraising plans, and supporting program expansion to new communities and populations. We have worked across multiple content areas including workforce, education, criminal justice, and health.

Envoy specializes in the following areas:

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Launch: Supporting the buildout and implementation of new organizations, programs, or inititiaves. Our services include:

 

• Developing detailed, multi-year strategic plans driving launch, growth, and sustainability.

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• Designing staffing and operational models and multi-year budget projections. 

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• Developing of administrative and project management systems.

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• Supporting leaders in fund development, governance, and compliance, and provide guidance during pivotal periods of transition.

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• Building and facilitating communities of practice and learning sessions to engage peer organizations.

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Growth: Expanding initiative programming, constituencies and geographic footprints. Our services include:

 

• Conducting market analysis to inform new opportunities. 

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• Supporting leadership transitions, recruiting, training, and onboarding.

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• Createing business plans, budgets and revenue opportunities to support expansion.

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• Expanding partnerships and collaborations to reach new audiences and communities more efficiently. 

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• Supporting adaptation of programs across sectors or geographies.

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Sustainability: Diversifying revenue and building healthy long-term organizations and teams. Our services include:

• Reviewing current income sources and explore new funders, customers or revenue-generating assets.

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• Creating budgets and long-term financial models, including scenario planning for sustainability and growth.

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• Developing fundraising prospectus’ that articulate long-term strategy and encourage multi-year and transformational investments.

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• Developing comprehensive communications plans and fundraising strategy aligned with programmatic priorities.

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Examples of our strategy work include:

 

• Working closely with founders to launch and grow two new 501c3 organizations leading criminal justice reform efforts in prosecution and prison reentry

 

• Leading diligence and feasibility efforts for the national expansion of a youth workforce readiness organization

 

• Creating a new revenue model for a education training and credentialing organization

 

• Relaunching a national criminal justice initiative for a large membership association

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• Designing and implementing learning series on organizational growth and sustainability and facilitating regular sessions and engaging participants through instruction and activities

 

Our strategy practice has an intentional focus on implementation, and we typically enter longer-term or multi-phase engagements with clients that see our projects through to execution.  

 

If you're interested in learning more, feel free to reach out to Salomon Moreno Rosa.