Mission Critical Communities & Strategic Alliances

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Creating mutually beneficial communities of practice (CoP), partnerships or alliances is key to nonprofit impact and sustainability.  These productive relationships have the potential to share strengths, risks, challenges and rewards.  

At a basic level, Onyx Strategies Group can:

• Determine your organization’s ability to create a CoP or strategic alliance and its capacity to lead, sustain and productively participate.

• Define potential alliance or CoP partners using data to support recommendations.

• Counsel clients for how to build a strategy for trust among partners and stakeholders as well as how to launch, manage, evaluate and dismantle an alliance or CoP. 

"Onyx helped us see the benefit of building an alliance of civil rights preservationists. Their recommendations for success have us excited about how we approach the design process to better support these sites!  We are grateful for their partnership and counsel!"

Alan Spears, National Parks Conservation Association

Strong boards are accountable and dynamic – easily shifting when priorities change - and have diversity within its ranks. 

If your board suffers from:

• Micromanagement
• Unproductive and weak committees
• Does not rotate board members
• Fails to orient new members
• Fails to define roles and duties
• Fails to have a robust strategy, and
• Remains too small and/or retains unproductive members.

Reach out to Onyx for support. We can:

• Help implement board performance evaluations.
• Help evaluate and re-shape board systems and policies, where prudent. 
• Provide training to help align board performance and structure to organizational strategy.

"We had an urgent need to grow our board and we asked Onyx to help us with recruitment. They provided comprehensive strategies for ramping up our board and I was so grateful for their support!"

Amy Sovocool, Conservation Legacy