Services

Ceres offers customized and off-the-shelf solutions to organizations of any size, in any sector. Whatever your goal, we will work with you to achieve the results you need on time and on budget.

Operations and Planning: 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

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 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

Training, Learning, and Coaching: 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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