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Social Impact Consulting for Nonprofits

From strategic planning, board engagement, resource development, advocacy,  or a combination of them all, we’re here to help your organisation chart the right path to meet your mission.

Nonprofits across all issue areas are working through the effects of Covid-19, inflation, and an increasingly polarized political landscape. The way you care for people has changed; the need is greater than ever; and the competition for resources and attention is fierce.  

We understand the challenges you’re facing, and we’re here to partner with you to help address them. 

Our Expertise

Our approach to strategic planning is customized and focused on meeting the needs of your organization. We focus on getting the right level of engagement from key stakeholders, such as customers or clients, staff, board, and volunteers, as well as moving the project through to specific and measurable goals. Our final deliverable is not meant to be put on the shelf and looked at annually; it’s a map towards your future that your teams will refer to regularly for decision making and prioritization. 

We are experts in fundraising and resource development, and we understand the consistently changing landscape that you are considering for your fundraising and resource development efforts. We help our clients assess their revenue streams, understand the opportunities for further growth, and help them prioritize a plan to get the resources they need to be successful. We also partner with you in responding to the opportunities and challenges that come up while we’re working together.
No one works alone – it’s a fact in almost all areas of work, but it’s especially true in the nonprofit sector. We help our clients understand who they should be working with, in what way, and how to set up partnerships to better advance their particular strategies. We also help our clients understand who their key stakeholders should be to meet their mission and vision, and then build and execute plans to engage them. 

Typical Requests

  • “We have too many activities going on all the time and we have to figure out where to focus our efforts.”
  • "We need to decide where to focus our efforts in fundraising to raise more money with fewer restrictions on how we can spend it." 
  • "We want to engage our elected officials in our work more effectively, so we can get support for policy changes that will help our community."
  • "We need more connections to influential people that can raise money, give money, and connect us to people who can help us." 
  • "We need to rethink our partnerships with other organizations and figure out what we really need." 
  • "We have a program that we're not sure if we should keep doing, and we need help making that decision."

Our Approach

Our first step is to get to know you: what matters to you, your team, and stakeholders, and what challenges you face. Then we develop workflows and timelines accordingly. These workflows might include: 

  • Scoping out a strategic planning process and timeline. 
  • Developing a stakeholder engagement plan that will advance your advocacy goals. 
  • Identifying opportunities to better align your fundraising and communications with your program goals. 
  • Developing a plan for board recruitment and engagement to support your organizational goals. 

Custom solutions for your company’s needs

Strategic planning, resource development, stakeholder engagement:
we can help you navigate it all.

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Josh functioned as the No Kid Hungry campaign’s key architect, designing a strategy that was strong enough to rally behind, efficient enough to make use of Share Our Strength’s unique assets, and flexible enough to accommodate new opportunities and lessons learned as we attempted a type of social change that no one had ever done before. As a result, Share Our Strength nearly doubled in size and more than doubled its impact, changing the lives of millions more American kids. Josh’s combination of strategic thinking, political savvy and personal commitment makes Wachs Strategy a force multiplier on behalf of transformational change.
Bill Shore
Executive Director, National Fitness Foundation

What Makes Us Different

To maximize impact and realize mission-critical objectives, nonprofits, philanthropies and companies must evolve beyond transactional charity work and become dynamic change agents.

Wachs Strategies is a full-service, one-stop shop for what it takes to execute at the highest level. We make all our clients three promises that separate us from other firms: 

A Nimble Team

We stand ready to respond quickly to real-time opportunities and challenges so that you stay on track with your goals.

100% of Our Attention

As a small firm, we work on a limited number of clients at a time. So you can expect to have our full attention. The team you speak to on day one is the same team you will have throughout.

Custom Solutions

We tailor our solutions to your needs. Our years of experience are a guide; but it’s your goals that determine the exact path we take.

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We are Social Impact Consultants.We help you do good, better.

Wachs Strategies partners with corporations, nonprofits, and individuals to design and execute strategies that drive change.

How we can help

We work with a diverse range of clients to advance a diverse range of solutions.

Philanthropists & Individuals

With so much need out there, it’s not always clear how best to give or how to gauge the impact of your giving. We help with both.

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Nonprofit Organizations

Making a lasting impact in this environment is a challenge. We help you develop the right plans to meet the moment.
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Corporations & Business Leaders

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and social impact strategies can take many forms. We help you decide what strategy to deploy and how and when to do it.

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Strategic planning for a nonprofit

This client came to Wachs Strategies requesting support in running a strategic planning process for the organization. Their previous strategic planning process had been an onerous task, and the executive team was clear they needed a new approach this...
Read Case Study

Capacity building for a nonprofit client

Wachs Strategies was retained by a volunteer board that had founded a new organization and recognized that they would be limited in what they could achieve with their reliance on volunteers.
Read Case Study

Strategic assessment for a nonprofit on a tech product

Our clients, two major nonprofits, were the co-owners of a technology product that addressed a previously unmet need in its community. However, neither nonprofit had a strategic focus on technology or were fully staffed to run a technology product....
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Increasing impact for a corporate client

Our client, a major corporation with multiple entities and significant name recognition, had consolidated its grantmaking into one corporate foundation several years ago. The foundation was donating significant funds annually, but the organization’s leadership felt that there was a...
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Strategic planning for a nonprofit

This client came to Wachs Strategies requesting support in running a strategic planning process...

Capacity building for a nonprofit client

Wachs Strategies was retained by a volunteer board that had founded a new organization...

Strategic assessment for a nonprofit on a tech product

Our clients, two major nonprofits, were the co-owners of a technology product that addressed...

Increasing impact for a corporate client

Our client, a major corporation with multiple entities and significant name recognition, had consolidated...
Showing Slide 1 of 4

We partner with you at every step on the way towards making a difference.

Strategic Planning And Execution

You’re already doing good work. We help you maximize, accelerate, and expand your impact through purposeful strategic planning.
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Stakeholder Engagement

Understanding and engaging stakeholders is crucial for social impact. We help you identify and cultivate the right relationships to help advance your work.
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Resource Development

Behind every successful strategy is the right resourcing. We work with you to determine your needs and get resources from multiple sources.

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Strategic Partnerships

Your work often tackles problems that cannot be solved alone. We help you build and pursue relationships the relationships you need.
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Executive Coaching

Leadership roles can be isolating and extremely demanding. We work with you to develop the tools you need to navigate your path successfully.
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Wachs Strategies helped us with every aspect of our organization to develop a comprehensive growth strategy. The team’s ability to see the big picture while also supporting detailed implementation delivered immediate results. From messaging to donors to onboarding our first Executive Director, Josh and his team have cross-functional expertise that helped us succeed.
Katie WilsonExecutive Director, Urban School Food Alliance
The Wachs Strategies team knows what it takes to deliver on social impact. They led us through a process to understand our goals and unique assets, take a candid look at what was and wasn’t working, and design a path forward that is already delivering increased impact in our community and stronger business results. Their strategy development was comprehensive and smart, and they were beside us for the detailed implementation. The team adapted to our needs and coached us every step of the way. With their help, we have elevated our social impact strategy to a crucial component of our overall business strategy aligning our players, employees, and partners.
Monica DixonExecutive Vice President & Chief of Staff, Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Wachs Strategies has exceeded our expectations. The team has a deep understanding of what it takes to develop strategies and deliver. With their help we filled our donor pipeline, held successful fundraising events and crafted customized messaging and approaches for key donors that resulted in securing the revenue we needed to succeed. Josh’s team not only helped with the prospects we had, but also helped us design the donor infrastructure we need to keep being successful for the long-term.
Desmond MeadeExecutive Director, Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
The thorough research and analysis from the consultants gave us a strong fact base to build our strategy on. The team had interviews with dozens of stakeholders and it was crucial for us to hear outside perspectives and adapt our strategy to the realities of our external environment.
Mark ShriverPresident, Save the Children Action Network
Josh is a trusted advisor who helped us develop a strategic focus for our grantmaking program that is helping us deliver the change we want to see in the world.
Bradley TuskCEO, Tusk Philanthropies
When he worked at the NBA, Josh led some of our most successful business and nonprofit partnerships. He instilled a win-win-win mentality into our approach that engaged the NBA, our teams and players, and our partners to maximize social impact. He helped us in our efforts to put a highly visible stake in the ground around CSR, which resulted in real value to our business and community efforts.
Kathy BehrensPresident, Social Responsibility and Player Programs, National Basketball Association
Josh functioned as the No Kid Hungry campaign’s key architect, designing a strategy that was strong enough to rally behind, efficient enough to make use of Share Our Strength’s unique assets, and flexible enough to accommodate new opportunities and lessons learned as we attempted a type of social change that no one had ever done before. As a result, Share Our Strength nearly doubled in size and more than doubled its impact, changing the lives of millions more American kids. Josh’s combination of strategic thinking, political savvy and personal commitment makes Wachs Strategy a force multiplier on behalf of transformational change.
Bill ShoreFounder & Executive Chairman, Share Our Strength
Josh helped the National Fitness Foundation navigate and maximize a critical transition period. While we were reworking just about every aspect of our services and operations, Josh provided astute guidance and creative ideas that got us working together on how we could link our program work, development efforts and communications strategy to best tell our story and scale our impact.
Chris WattsExecutive Director, National Fitness Foundation
Through their knowledge and key relationships with social justice organizations and leaders, Josh and the team at Wachs Strategies helped me develop a compelling strategy focused on voting rights for my social impact work. Their expertise and passion were both tremendously inspiring and wonderfully effective.
Kerry WashingtonActress and Producer

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