The Leadership Survey
Structured interviews with your executive, your board, and the layer below them, scored against one written rubric instead of four separate ones.
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Industries ยท Nonprofits
The constraint is rarely the mission.
A nonprofit rarely stalls because the mission is wrong. It stalls because the board is informed rather than deciding, the fundraising plan sits apart from the strategy instead of underneath it, and the executive at the top is carrying more than the org chart admits. We read all three before we recommend anything.
What caps growth here
For a nonprofit, demand is donors and grantors, not customers, and the same problem shows up in a different shape: the right people are not arriving, or they arrive and never understand the case for support well enough to give again.
Strategic planning and the fundraising plan underneath it are too often built apart, one in a retreat and the other in a spreadsheet nobody in the room has seen. A campaign that has not been tested against real donor capacity and inclination is a hope, not a plan.
The board that only attends meetings is not the same as the board that carries something between them. We look at whether decisions actually move below the top, or whether most of them route through one executive who is carrying more than the org chart says, with no one named to carry the rest.
The operator
Joanna Wasmuth
Nonprofit Strategy and Philanthropy
Joanna Wasmuth has spent 25 years in nonprofit leadership and philanthropy counsel, running campaigns from $10 million to $300 million and raising more than $30 million a year. She coaches leaders who carry more than the org chart says they do, work the largest firms in the field name as transformative leadership, and she carries the board engagement and moves management that keep momentum alive between meetings.
Read the bioThe usual fit
Nonprofit strategy and fundraising
Feasibility and planning studies, campaign counsel, major and mega gift strategy, moves management, and board engagement, run alongside your team.
Learn moreCoaching programs
Executive coaching for the leader carrying more than the org chart says, one on one.
Learn moreBefore you book the hour
Take the fifteen-minute Growth Check first, scored for a nonprofit. You will have your own constraint in writing before the call.
Take the Growth CheckWhere to go from here
Book an hour with us, no charge. Or take the Growth Check first, about fifteen minutes, to see where your own constraint sits before the call.