Nonprofit Strategy

Is your nonprofit looking for small scale, affordable support?

Whether your mission is in the arts or not, your work in the nonprofit sector strengthens our community. Bringing people together is a core part of our mission at Happy Time, and therefore we work with nonprofits in any sector that is focused on connecting people and improving lives.

Does this sound like you?

~ New nonprofit ready to prioritize and make an impact

~ Board or staff leadership in transition, seeking clarity and shared understanding of mission, vision, values

~ In need of a new or updated fundraising strategy

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

Thank you Ali!!!! Your expertise and guidance were very important for us and have jumpstarted our efforts across not Fundraising and Grants - we presented the overview to the board this week and they were very receptive to becoming more involved! 

- Jaime Quick, Board President, ChangeUp Foundation

STRATEGIC PLANNING

Can't thank you enough for your counsel and help throughout this process. We've really appreciated having your experience and insight and having you as a sounding board.

- Trisha Marshall, Executive Director, Issaquah Schools Foundation

FACILITATION

Working with Ali at Happy Time Studio was an amazing experience for our organization. From the beginning, she took time to deeply understand our mission and the unique challenges we face. Her expertise in non-profit strategic planning proved invaluable as we navigate critical changes in our organization. Through her tailored approach, she facilitated workshops that empowered our team, fostering collaboration and innovation. We loved our time with Ali!

- Erin Carpinito, Board President, The Children’s Garden School

How can Happy Time help you?

~ Facilitate strategic discussions

~ Strengthen your organizational identity (mission, vision, values)

~ Design or help you design a strategic plan or idea that fits your situation and motivates your team

~ Create systems to prioritize, track, and be accountable for progress

~ Fundraising coaching and support, including grants, individual donors, corporate sponsors, and overall development planning

~ In-person and virtual options available

What kind of support would be helpful?

Just Curious

  • 30 minute consult

  • Free

Strategic Planning

  • Pinpoint the sticky issues

  • Build a shared understanding of purpose and goals

  • Facilitate the creation or refresh of organizational identity

  • Build goals and actions into a simple and usable management system

  • $150/hr - can provide estimate based on specific needs, 4 hour minimum

Development Planning

  • Review fundraising efforts

  • Set practical fundraising goals and create management system

  • $150/hr - can provide estimate based on specific needs, 4 hour minimum

Grant Strategy

  • Review/provide feedback on grants

  • Teach grant research approaches, help finding new prospects

  • Build a grant plan, timeline, and management system

  • Teach effective strategies for grantseeking

  • $150/hr - can provide estimate based on specific needs, 2 hour minimum

Coaching Package

  • For leaders who would like 1:1 check ins on a regular basis - twice monthly

  • Customized to your goals as they evolve

  • $150/hr, with bulk discounts available, 3 month minimum

Here is a little bit about Ali’s nonprofit consulting experience:

Ali has a 13 year career in nonprofit fundraising and strategy. As a co-owner of a 20 person consulting firm, she personally worked with over 150 nonprofits, mostly located in the Puget Sound region, and some around Washington state and the rest of the country.

Her initial expertise was built in grant strategy, where she developed effective tools and techniques to rocket boost grantwriting for nonprofits of all shapes and sizes. In addition to coaching and training nonprofit leaders and fundraisers all over the state, she also built and trained one of the largest and most successful grantseeking consulting teams in the region.

Ali translated this experience into organizational development, requiring both big picture visioning as well as detailed task management in order to implement change. In her leadership roles, she has deep experience focused on strategic planning, development planning, organizational assessment and operations across a wide range of nonprofit sectors and sizes.

Ali has contributed to lots of area nonprofits through board service and volunteer time, and from a 20+ year career as a musician, is deeply familiar with the innerworkings of community organizations in the arts and creative spaces.

Her favorite type of work in nonprofit consulting is making sense out of the chaos, and then acting as teacher and guide, providing tools and resources as needed, as you create a path forward.

Come on over and sit with us to see if you’d like to work together! We currently offer free consults to see if it’s a good fit.