Strategic Consulting
For corporations, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations
What we can do for you:
- Bring structure, knowledge, and strategy to ideas and initiatives, either for starting up or for scaling up
- Help companies understand their customers so they can communicate a clear and relevant value proposition to each group
- Evaluate the performance or impacts of an existing activity, and/or help you restructure or develop new strategies if goals are not being met
- Identify and develop appropriate partnerships and networks of experts to ensure continued success
Services we typically offer:
Entrepreneur and Startup Strategies and Investment Readiness
- Assistance with growth planning, covering all key elements: from go-to-market strategies to financing
- Guidance on how to be investment ready with a compelling pitch deck and comprehensive deal package
- Creation of or feedback on financial models with scenarios and sensitivity analyses, to test your assumptions and develop realistic projections for investors.
Corporate Sustainability, Impact Assessment, and Partnership Development
- Creation and implementation of sustainability strategies within a company or product line
- Development of partnerships with NGOs or other innovative businesses to strengthen market position
- Assessment of environmental and social risks, and development of strategies to mitigate them
- Development of cost-effective impact metrics for strategies, and integratation of strategies in business operations.
Philanthropy and Foundation Strategies for Growth, Evaluation, and Exits
- Guidance in development and evaluation of an impact investment or philanthropic program
- Strategies for using the full range of financial and nonfinancial tools and resources available to achieve objectives
- Management of portfolio transitions from grant making to investment in revenue-generating ventures, or other exits from long-term grant making initiatives
- Advice on creation and scaling of market-based strategies that support specific impact goals
- Design of prize-based opportunities and competitions aimed at spurring innovation and finding impact-based solutions
Nonprofit Strategies and Revenue Generation
- Advice for effective engagement with the private sector, through market-oriented strategies, sponsorships, services, and more
- Development of revenue-generating business models to supplement or replace grant income
- Experience with hybrid structures and scaling strategies in for-profit and nonprofit activities
Outreach to Government and Development Agencies
- Development of major sector-building initiatives, based on our experience with Fish 2.0 as well as our expertise in entrepreneurship, investment, and philanthropy
- Seafood experts who can leverage their deep ties to fisheries projects worldwide to create economic development strategies for coastal communities and to ensure effective engagement of SMEs.
- Clean energy experts who can help you develop the right type of incentives or programs to attract private investment in nascent markets
