Foundations
Your ability to enact change begins with a robust foundation strategy.
We help you maximize your foundation’s strategy, structure, skill set, and culture to achieve greater impact in a shifting landscape. Sharpen your perspective and support your decision-making with social sector experts by your side.
Turn your ideas into action.
Without a bold resulting in realistic solutions, you risk setting incremental goals that lead to small-scale (if any) change. Today’s top concerns, from defense of democracy, to extreme income inequality, to climate change, call for more: a transformational response. Our customized strategic planning, business planning, organizational development, and change management solutions help you set aggressive goals and provide a practical road map to get there.
Filter out the noise that impedes effective governance.
Leveraging expertise – your own and others’ – is key to helping your foundation reach its desired impact. We help you capitalize on the strengths and experience of your team, elevating your capacity to learn quickly and innovate effectively, so that your resources are invested wisely.
Provide a boost to the organizations you invest in.
Foundations support programs, but for those programs to succeed, the organizations that provide them must be strong and resilient. We help you develop and deploy strategies that have been proven to increase grantees’ organizational effectiveness, enabling them to generate even more impact with available funding.
Transforming Complex Problems into Actionable Solutions
We’ll co-create customized strategies to fit your unique needs, delivered within a proven framework that keeps your organization focused on what matters. Our foundation consulting will strengthen your ability to adapt to an ever-changing environment.
Client Spotlight
S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
Discover how La Piana Consulting helped the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation navigate new territory as it re-focused to create a large national program to strengthen youth character development. Guiding the project from idea to execution, we supervised the launch of what would become a $140MM initiative.
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