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As a firm, we are concerned about how to support and bring about extraordinary work in communities. This search will always be a work in progress, but we believe that we have identified a set of principles that contribute: best practice research, strategy management, sufficient internal systems infrastructure, client centered practice, collaborative models, organizational learning and adequately prepared managers and supervisors. We have focused our practice to promote, teach, and build skills in these areas.

Whether or not we work with you or your organization directly, if you are an executive director, a program officer, or a consultant working in our field, it is our hope that you will find intellectual stimulation, provocative approaches, and useful tools and resources on our website. Welcome.

One of the more challenging aspects of growing a nonprofit organization is the on-going assessment of internal strengths and weaknesses. FIO Partners offers tools that objectively measure key aspects of internal functioning. Tools that you may find helpful are:

Making the decision to make a significant investment in a nonprofit organization based on a grant proposal can be difficult. While many funders do their own due diligence to ensure that an organization can handle a large grant, other foundations lack the staff to undertake such an assessment. We have shared our tools, materials, and techniques with funders to support these efforts. Key tools involved in the process are:

Why FIO Partners?

We selected the word FIO (f-ee-oh), Latin for “become” as our company name because we believe that each of our clients is in the process of becoming better than they are: more vibrant, more capable, more powerful, more able to bring about positive change in society. Choosing FIO as our name is our way of reminding ourselves that the role of capacity building demands that we join our clients in that process and add value to the journey. We see our name as both an invitation and a commitment.

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July’s Featured Product

Are you looking for a roadmap to grow your nonprofit organization? Strategic Growth: A Guide for Nonprofit Organizations is a standardized assessment tool that benchmarks where each management system in an organization is relative to the developmental stage of the organization. Executive directors, along with other staff and/or Board members, can use this guide to determine their organization’s overall stage of development (Idea, Start Up, Growth, or Established) and to assess whether the development of internal management systems is aligned with their over all development. For more information on using this free tool, click here.

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