EFI can help your organization by connecting you with other non-profit organizations so that you can learn from each other and share best practices with organizations worldwide.
We can work with your organization individually to help you to be successful at achieving a goal. Success breeds success and by accomplishing even one of the goals your organization has set, it will encourage other stakeholders to want to get involved and help you to achieve future goals. EFI can help you develop a plan to achieve one goal or many goals.
Accountability measures for non-profits in the western world are continuing to increase, as funding dollars become harder to acquire and funders have more accountability to their donors. EFI can help you to develop an evaluation framework, do the actual evaluation for you or even develop a business plan for your organization.
Our Glossary of terms will help visitors to the EFI website to be able to discover the meaning of words that make up a part of non-profit sector jargon, so that fledgling non-profits and grassroots community groups can use the website as a learning tool to help to grow their organizations.
Managing non-profit organizations is becoming more and more complex. With the addition of a changing workforce, opposing expectations, and continuous learning needed for staff, board members and other volunteers, managing non-profit strategies are constantly being changed to adapt to the fluidity of the organizations themselves. EFI can help your non-profit to develop policy and procedure manuals, human resources policies, risk management policies, board training, staff professional development, etc. For a list of other services we offer, please visit the “Services” tab of our website.
The need for strategic planning in the non-profit sector has never been as crucial as it is now. Funders want non-profits to have strategic plans so that they can ensure that the organization has a plan for their own sustainability. EFI can develop a strategic plan for you. We use a variety of techniques to gather the information needed to put together your strategic plan.
EFI has a variety of ways for non-profits to reduce their costs when hiring us to do consulting and also for organizations purchasing our “Virtual Toolboxes” or “Non-Profit” Templates.
Saving money has become even more important in the past couple of years. EFI can do an assessment of your organization and provide you with guidelines on how to reduce your overall costs, increase efficiency, and use your existing resources to their fullest extent.