Services
Ceres offers human-centered strategy and planning services. We build capacity by training and co-creating in partnership with our clients.
Operations and Planning: Build your foundation.
Process optimization: Assess and streamline administrative operations and workflows.
Strategic financial planning: Analyze the story behind your financial data and build plans for future financial performance.
Start-up services: Create the documents, systems and processes you need to launch and scale your new or evolving enterprise.
Fund Development and Donor Strategy: Grow your resources.
Grant writing and proposal support: Collaborate with experienced grant writers to craft compelling funding requests and manage grant operations.
Impact storytelling: Share compelling stories that highlight your mission and inspire action, combining personal narratives with data-informed insights.
Development strategy and planning: Build a resilient and attainable funding plan that helps you generate flexible, diversified and sustainable resources.
Other services: Prospect research, campaign planning, donor engagement strategies, individual giving plans, development team capacity building, cases for support
Evaluation and Research: Know your impact.
Evaluation reports: Understand organization and program outcomes with reports and presentations that combine rigorous analysis with accessible summaries and data visualizations.
Evaluation systems design and capacity building: Integrate evaluation into your daily work and teach team members new skills in measuring impact.
Community engaged data collection: Center community and stakeholder voice in your data strategy to better understand needs, priorities and opportunities for growth and evolution.
Other services: Theories of change and logic models, needs assessments, dashboards, data audits, research briefs
Training, Learning, and Coaching: Strengthen your team.
Executive and staff coaching: One-on-one coaching engagements for thought partnership, strategy support and capacity building. Single session, ongoing and fixed-term coaching packages available.
Team learning and upskilling: Design and execute customized learning strategies to help your staff build capabilities, advance their knowledge and adapt to change.
Board services: Create the systems, materials and frameworks needed to inspire and engage your board.
Other services: Facilitation, board and staff retreats, mediated conversations
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Build your foundation.
Operational efficiency: Assess and streamline administrative operations, optimize workflows, and ensure your systems are aligned with your values and mission.
Strategic financial planning: Analyze the story behind your financial data and create strategies to advance sustainability and build donor confidence.
Start-up services: From organizational charts to operating manuals to job descriptions, create the documents, systems and processes you need to launch and scale your new or evolving enterprise.
Other services: Strategic planning, succession planning, interim leadership
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Grow your resources.
Grant writing and proposal support: Collaborate with experienced grant writers to craft compelling funding requests and manage grant operations.
Impact storytelling: Share compelling stories that highlight your mission and inspire action, combining personal narratives with data-informed insights.
Development strategy and planning: Build a resilient and attainable funding plan that helps you generate flexible, diversified and sustainable resources.
Other services: Prospect research, campaign planning, donor engagement strategies, individual giving plans, development team capacity building, cases for support goes here
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Know your impact.
Evaluation reporting: Understand organization and program outcomes with reports and presentations that combine rigorous analysis with accessible summaries and data visualizations.
Evaluation systems design and capacity building: Integrate evaluation into your daily work and teach team members new skills in measuring impact.
Community engaged data collection: Center community and stakeholder voice in your data strategy to better understand needs, priorities and opportunities for growth and evolution.
Other services: Theories of change and logic models, needs assessments and feasibility studies, dashboards, data audits, research briefs
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Strengthen your team.
Executive and staff coaching: Utilize one-on-one coaching engagements for thought partnership, strategy support and capacity building. Single session, ongoing and fixed-term coaching packages available.
Team learning and upskilling: Design and execute customized learning strategies to help your staff build capabilities, advance their knowledge and adapt to change.
Board services: Create the systems, materials and frameworks needed to inspire and engage your board.
Other services: Facilitation, board and staff retreats, mediated and facilitated conversations
