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Achieve Your Nonprofit Mission

Effective strategy is about taking action in real time – beyond setting goals and creating a plan to achieve them. We begin every engagement by developing strategy and the tools for making smart strategic choices as the world changes around us.

We define strategy as a coordinated set of actions aimed at creating and sustaining a competitive advantage in carrying out your nonprofit’s mission. This definition drives every decision towards alignment, so that the mission, programs, and operational systems all work towards the same ends.

Real-Time Strategic Planning

Our methodology engages participants, addresses the Big Questions facing the organization, and creates an atmosphere where ongoing strategic thinking and acting can flourish.

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Organizational Assessment

Improve your effectiveness by assessing your management functions, as well as the impact of your programs. We work with you to build your capacity to perform objective self-assessment, and ultimately, to advance your mission.

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Organizational Development

We can help enhance your organizational strategy by helping define your organization’s competitive advantage. Although many nonprofit practitioners shy away from competitive analysis, we have found it to be an extremely powerful concept as groups work to leverage the strengths that make them unique or set them apart from others.

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Branding and Marketing

Develop and implement practical, customized marketing and communications plans that effectively promote your nonprofit to all of its constituents.

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Client Testimonials

"I am more confident in working through challenges; I now see myself as a leader, which is empowering. I am so fortunate; just being there, engaged in meaningful discussion with other non-profit executives as well as having La Piana consultants as more than a resource..."
- Kehaulani Costa, Administrative Chair, Malamalama Waldorf School


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  • Strong organizational capacity can’t be imported or taught; it has to be built over time by nurturing and encouraging the organization’s strengths over its weaknesses....

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