Summit Consulting Group has the experience, resources and network to meet any organizational need.
More About Our Areas of Focus
Strategic Planning
We work intensively with executive leadership, board members, key staff and stakeholders to clarify objectives and assess specific challenges. The result is a collaboration on short-and long-term plans that are realistic, measurable and achievable — with clear timelines for completion.
Organizational Growth
Virtually all social impact organizations feel an urgency to expand capacity. We start by defining your particular obstacles to growth. We’ll then form objective a series of analyses: of your mission and the level of its acceptance by staff and stakeholders; of your organizational culture; of your resource limitations and opportunities; of your internal and external communications; and of your use of metrics and accountability tools.
Community & Government Awareness
With contemporary marketing and public relations strategies, focused community engagement, and hands-on lobbying, we show you how to raise awareness of your mission, your work, and to identify the obstacles to additional or continued success.
Leadership Development
It’s an often overlooked area in mission-based organizations. Working in a supportive mode with your designated participants, we’ll mutually develop a plan for systemic leadership development with a focus on skills relevant to your world. Our guidance in succession planning will dramatically improve your outlook for long-term success.
Nonprofit assessment & navigating a crisis
It’s not uncommon for nonprofit organizations to face obstacles that challenge their very sustainability. Sudden leadership turnover, unanticipated funding losses, public relations catastrophes, and other unfortunate surprises demand immediate attention. We step in, roll up our sleeves, and with your input, develop solutions. In the event of sudden turnover, we’ll even provide interim leadership while you search for a full-time replacement.
Keys to Project Success
Relationships
Foster strong and collaborative relationships by listening to, understanding and addressing the needs of diverse stakeholders.
Transparency
Build trust by maintaining open and honest communication, integrity and transparency in all our decisions and actions.
Accountability
Cultivate a culture that drives measurable results and meaningful social impact in an agreed-upon timeline, and by delivering on shared responsibilities.
Longevity
Design and implement sustainable strategies and systems that create lasting and positive change into the future.
Efficiency
Maximize the impact through effective execution, resource optimization and a relentless focus on results.
