Our Services
Summit Consulting Group has the experience, resources and network to meet virtually any organizational need or opportunity.
As experienced business executives, board members and community leaders in the public and private sectors, we’re able to assist with both short- and long-term operational needs in an array of strategic, tactical and operational areas.
Where We Specialize
Strategic & Tactical Planning
We work closely with executive leadership, board members, key staff and stakeholders to clarify objectives and assess specific challenges. This leads to a collaborative outcome, with short-and long-term plans that are realistic, measurable and achievable — with clearly specified deliverables and timelines.
Organizational Growth
Virtually all social impact organizations feel a need to expand capacity, scale and impact, but they aren’t always sure how to get there. Our work begins by clearly identifying your unique obstacles, followed by an analysis of your mission and the level of its acceptance by staff and stakeholders. In forming our growth plan, we’ll assess organizational culture, resource limitations and opportunities, internal and external communications, and all relevant metrics and accountability tools.
Community & Government Awareness
Employing contemporary marketing and public relations strategies across a range of media platforms, along with focused community engagement and hands-on outreach, we’ll help you elevate awareness of your mission and work while developing tactics that will reduce or eliminate any obstacles to additional future success.
Leadership Development & Succession Planning
Mission-based organizations often overlook the importance of investing in staff and planning for future leadership. Working with your designated team members, we’ll mutually develop a plan for systemic leadership development, with a focus on coaching, mentoring and the skills relevant to your particular mission. Our expertise in succession planning will dramatically improve your long-term outlook and retention of key personnel.
Crisis Management
Things sometimes happen fast, and it’s not uncommon for nonprofit organizations to be surprised by sudden threats to their very sustainability. Abrupt turnover in leadership, unforeseen changes in funding, public relations catastrophes, and other surprises demand the calm, prompt and capable hands-on attention Summit provides. Time is of the essence in crisis response, and we’ll roll up our sleeves to construct an immediate, appropriate and effective strategy.
Immediate Leadership Assistance
Faced with a sudden or unexpected departure of a CEO, executive or key manager? It’s not that uncommon. Our team’s operational experience and skill sets enable us to step into a range of managerial vacancies to provide interim leadership and transitional management, and we’ll keep things moving forward until a permanent replacement is named. If you wish, we’ll even help with the recruitment and hiring.
Development
In the end, nothing is more important than sustainability and an ongoing pursuit of your mission. We’ll identify new and additional funding sources to keep you moving forward. Hoping to expand capacity through a capital campaign? We know how, when and where to begin. Talk to us before you start planning and preparation.
Summit sees a perfect storm in the United States that threatens the success of many nonprofits and will likely lead to the closure of some. It is helpful for an organization to have an outside perspective to best identify its current challenges. Summit proposes offering critical-need contingency assessments aimed at helping nonprofits navigate these challenges.
Our Work
- Case Study
Developing a business model for a project
Summit was asked to help prepare a business model for a small nonprofit seeking to establish a group home and expand its services. This task entailed a review of the proposed operational plan and participant rules for the building, the proposed budget and revenue history. This was followed by a meeting with the organization’s [...]
- Case Study
Interim Leadership
After a frustrating, long and unsuccessful search for its new executive director, a southern Nevada nonprofit asked Summit principal Bart Patterson to serve in the position on an interim basis, while a second search was conducted. Bart agreed to do so. Recognizing the realities of the organization’s budget, Summit structured its contract so that [...]