Helping nonprofit leaders discover and leverage valuable, untapped resources in their organizations to establish expertise, raise more money, earn revenue, and improve board and staff relationships.
Walker Philanthropic Consulting
But your balance sheet and financial statements aren't going to tell you that. Most management decisions in the philanthropic sector are based on financial choices.
Your people, your processes, your intellectual property, and your organization's unique assets are already working hard to move the needle on problems and issues that matter. It's time to see these resources as assets for mission achievement, not sunk costs.
Walker Philanthropic Consulting can help you identify and mobilize the resources you already have to accomplish more, sooner.
You already have the resources to accomplish more...
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Hi, I'm Michelle. I’m a strategy consultant who helps nonprofit leaders discover and leverage valuable, untapped resources in their organizations to establish expertise, raise more money, earn revenue, and improve board and staff relationships. My work supports clients who are navigating growth, scaling, innovation, or strategic plan implementation. I provide clear, practical, and actionable insights for how to do more with non-monetary resources already hard at work in your organization.
I've heard it hundreds of times:
"We don't have the money for that."
You do, though you may not realize it.
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Laura Rock, President
Rock Family Foundation
"WPC brings substance and prestige to my vision and drive. This combination has led us to create a lean, agile private foundation together over the past year. We will be granting funds in 2018 and I know that it would not have been as seamless and well-organized without Michelle’s expertise."
Judy Eakin, Executive Director
HEARTH
"Walker Philanthropic Consulting was instrumental in helping Hearth challenge our assumptions of the future, identify our organizational assets, and assess our resource and staffing gaps to create a stronger organization"
Scott Wolovich, Co-Founder and Executive Director
New Sun Rising
"Walker Philanthropic Consulting brings deep content knowledge to two areas that innovative non-profits should be addressing: leveraging intellectual property and mission-aligned income diversification. Michelle effectively met us at our level, balancing exploratory exercises and goal oriented facilitation to strengthen our team and organization."
Anonymous Client
"Michelle added a tremendous amount of value to our development of a strategy for intellectual property as an asset. Michelle is an expert in this area and brings a unique and valuable ability to make the content understandable, practical and adapted to our specific needs."
frequently asked questions
- What makes what you do and how you do it different from others in your space
- How you know that your work has the desired impact
- What do your stakeholders value about what and how you do your work
This is the perfect time to assess the intangible assets you already have that can be used to support your goals. Every organization has intangible and intellectual capital assets. Taking an inventory and mapping that inventory to your organization's key activities will help you and your team visualize and prioritize how to use assets you already have to get to action and keep the energy of the planning process high!
You probably have intellectual capital assets that can be leveraged towards your goals. You may also have “recurring fires” that are stealing time and energy away from working on big goals. Taking an inventory and mapping that inventory to your organization's goals will help you and your team visualize and prioritize how to use assets you already have to get to action on goals and highlight opportunities to create processes or policies to minimize those “recurring fires”.
I know that collaborations and partnerships are complex. There are other common challenges that arise that might have nothing to do with your value and expertise. The Let’s Collaborate Checklist can help you identify what else might be holding the collaboration back.
Yes! It’s an asset and should be managed as one.
Intellectual capital is a term that describes several different assets within organizations. Intellectual capital is usually described as having three core components (or capitals): Structural, Network, and People. Structural assets are things like intellectual property, processes, systems, policies, technology, and physical space and infrastructure that the organization uses on a regular basis. Network assets are relationships, and the insights acquired from those relationships, available to the organization through the staff, board members, donors, partner organizations, and vendors. People capital refers not to the people themselves, but to their collective knowledge and their ability to share and use that knowledge to do the work of the organization.