Our Services
CCI is a Collaborative Partner, Not a Transactional Consultant.
Our fees are often fully subsidized through grant funding and/or direct donations. Meaning, there is no expense whatsoever to the partner organization or municipality.

Assessment:
We evaluate your organization’s mission, milestones, metrics, community impact, internal strengths, and areas that need improvement. 

Strategic Planning:
We guide staff leaders and board through a collaborative strategic planning process to create a clear roadmap amid changing needs. Using stakeholder interviews, surveys, community listening sessions, literature reviews, and key insights from our executive team, we help you clarify your mission, vision, and values while setting aligned goals that boost effectiveness and focus.

Grant Guidance, Research, and Writing:
Overwhelmed by the process? Runnig low on time? Ready to delegate grant writing? We help you find and win the right funding, without adding more chaos to your plate. The CCI team works to find the best mission-matches. We handle all the prospect research, proposal writing, and submission details so you have a clear grant plan and a partner who can keep it moving.

Direct Funding & Donor Engagement:
We help you retain and grow your individual and major donor base with a plan that is actionable for your busy team. Together, we build targeted strategies, simple systems, and repeatable touch-points so you can nurture strong donor relationships and confidently invite in new supporters—through campaigns, giving days, special events, and online fundraising.

Messaging, Communications, and Marketing Strategies: 
Let's tell your organization's story. We help you bring clarity and consistency to both your external and internal communications so your entire team knows what to say, when to say it, and to whom. Through easily-implemented integrated marketing strategies, we create simple, practical steps that keep your outreach aligned with your mission. We work with your team to craft an impactful messaging campaign that contains concise, easy to recall soundbites and phrases that inform, inspire, and motivate.

Operations, Systems, and Infrastructure:
CCI cuts through the overwhelming number of tools, programs, and systems to find and implement what works best for your organization. We research, test, and integrate solutions with clear process design, budget frameworks, and workflow planning so your team stays efficient and forward-moving, rather than stuck in fixing mode.

Collaborative Opportunities:
Many hard-working nonprofits operate in isolated silos that limit impact and opportunities. CCI breaks down those silo walls. Our proprietary system and network enable us to identify and introduce organizations, agencies, and public-serving institutions that possess aligning objectives and complementary resources. We design innovative collaborations and create relationships that increase funding, build organizational capacity, optimize efficiencies, and deliver maximum community impact.

Project and Program Design & Budgeting:
We roll up our sleeves and dive into spreadsheets (or make them) with you. Using historical data, we project accurate budgets, set key milestones throughout the year, and pair them seamlessly with grant writing and program efforts. Our clients/partners are able to hit targets, deliver stronger outcomes, and keep their mission moving efficiently.

Volunteer Recruitment, Retention, & Management:
Whether your need for volunteers is project-based or ongoing, we work with your team to create a volunteer program and culture where volunteers have a rewarding and fun experience; where they are valued, recognized, and become some of your organization’s most effective ambassadors.