Colorado Nonprofit Advisory Collaborative
Service Areas

Find the right kind of help.

Nonprofits rarely show up with a tidy label on the problem. Here are the broad areas CNAC member firms cover — and which firms work in each.

Strategy & Governance

Strategic planning, board development, evaluation, and interim executive leadership — the work of deciding where to go and putting the right leadership in place to take you there.

Common asks

  • We need a real strategic plan, not a binder on a shelf.
  • Our board needs to grow up — governance, recruitment, succession.
  • We're between EDs and need interim leadership.
  • We need evaluation to prove the program works.

Member firms in this area

Leadership & Team Development

Executive coaching, team effectiveness, resilience and wellbeing, and human-centered leadership development — investing in the people who carry the mission.

Common asks

  • We want to develop our leaders through executive coaching.
  • We need to build trust and connection inside our team.
  • Our people need resilience and wellbeing support.
  • We want human-centered leadership development across the organization.

Member firms in this area

Funding & Fundraising

Development strategy, grant writing, major gifts, campaigns, and donor systems — building a funding base that doesn't run on adrenaline.

Common asks

  • Grants are our only plan and we're tired.
  • We're considering a capital or comprehensive campaign.
  • We need a real major-gifts program.
  • Our development data is a mess.

Member firms in this area

Finance & Operations

Fractional CFO leadership, accounting, audit prep, budgeting, and forecasting — financial clarity at the size and season you're actually in.

Common asks

  • Our CFO left and audit is in 60 days.
  • Budgeting is a guess; we need forecasting.
  • We need fractional finance leadership that scales.
  • Federal funds, indirect cost rates, and grants compliance.

Member firms in this area

People & Culture

HR strategy, hiring, compensation, performance, DEI, and team development — for organizations whose mission lives or dies on their people.

Common asks

  • We don't have HR and it's catching up with us.
  • Comp and benefits need to be defensible.
  • Culture or trust on the team has frayed.
  • Leadership development for emerging managers.

Member firms in this area

Story & Communications

Brand, messaging, marketing, media relations, and crisis communications — being clearly heard by the people whose attention matters to the mission.

Common asks

  • We need a brand and messaging that fits who we are now.
  • Something has gone sideways publicly and we need help fast.
  • We're launching a campaign or capital initiative.
  • Outreach to a specific community needs to actually land.

Member firms in this area

Not sure which area you need?

Tell us about your nonprofit and we'll match you to the right firm.

Tell us about your nonprofit →