Organizational Development
Develop organizational infrastructure to adapt to changing circumstances. Brigid’s professional history has been characterized by rapid organizational growth.
Through strategic planning, Brigid has built out internal operations to ensure that the growth is managed in a sustainable way. With Hillcrest Strategies we can:
Through strategic planning, Brigid has built out internal operations to ensure that the growth is managed in a sustainable way. With Hillcrest Strategies we can:
- Develop internal mechanisms to manage 501c3, 501c4, and PAC sister organizations
- Write and implement policies and procedures, including employee handbooks, training manuals, and management guidebooks.
- Identify additional technologies to minimize administrative burden, such as financial, time keeping, and digital organizing tools.
- Build out technological capacities to ensure strong data management.
Financial Management
Brigid more than doubled a worker center’s combined budgets in four years ($949,000 in 2012 to $2,400,000 in 2016). At a youth organizing nonprofit, Brigid helped grow the organization’s combined budgets from $440,000 in 2017, to $3.5 million in 2020.
Hillcrest Strategies can help you implement critical financial functions at your organization, including:
- Developing multi-year, multi-program budgets for conservative and sizable growth estimates.
- Producing, reviewing, and analyzing financial reports.
- Ensuring staff members can understand and interpret profit and loss reports, budgets vs. actuals, balance sheets, and reports of accounts payable and receivables is critical to financial well being.
- Overseeing expenditures for budget alignment. Brigid has overseen financial management for complicated organizational structures, with related 501c3s, 501c4s, and PACs, requiring the oversight of shared cost agreements and organizational grants.
- Convening finance team meetings and identifying the right players to be at the table.
Financial Management
Hillcrest Strategies can help you manage finances to ensure sound organizational health. Through her roles in fundraising and organizational management, our founder, Brigid Hall, has carried out critical financial functions for complex, multi million dollar entities.
Hillcrest Strategies can help you manage finances to ensure sound organizational health. Through her roles in fundraising and organizational management, our founder, Brigid Hall, has carried out critical financial functions for complex, multi million dollar entities.
Fundraising
Craft fundraising programs that diversify revenue streams and maximize your audiences.
Brigid has worked as a development team of one as well as the leader of fundraising departments to develop robust funding streams into non-profit organizations. Hillcrest Strategies can help you:
- Implement a monthly donor program to bring in low level donors and create a more robust balance of individual giving.
- Combining old school and new school strategies can help reach potential monthly donors and increase the gift size of existing donors.
- Create a major donor program for high net worth individuals
- Coordinate the development of annual fundraising plans that are mission-aligned and responsive to current event.
- Write, research, and report on grants, including multi-million dollar, multi-year grants.
- Develop renewable revenue streams including through merchandise sales online and in person.
Human Resources
Design human resources strategies to recruit, hire, and retain the best staff.
Hillcrest Strategies can help you:
- Develop improved screening processes to check for skillset, culture fit, and mission alignment
- Implementing evaluation processes to provide regular feedback to employees about their performance at the 90 day mark and annually.
- Craft salary scales, compiling benefit plans, and negotiating salaries using market data from the region. Based on research, Brigid set salary bands for positions at various levels of the organization, and established partnerships with brokers to secure the best medical and retirement policies for her staff.
- Oversee short hiring timelines to hire on temporary, seasonal staff. Brigid has overseen several time bound campaigns, including Get Out the Vote efforts and census canvassing operations, which require quick scaling of of staff. Brigid has supported the time bound campaigns that hired between 10 and nearly 70 temporary employees.
In her role overseeing both temporary project scaling as well as rapid organizational growth, Brigid has helped multiple organizations scale to reach statewide presence.
Management consulting to match the urgency of our time.