Choose the Right Level of Corporate Partnership Support
Whether you’re ready for hands-on support, need a focused starting point, or want to begin on your own, I offer different ways to help your nonprofit build stronger corporate partnerships.
The goal is the same in every case: clearer positioning, greater business relevance, and a more intentional path toward partnerships that can create meaningful progress for both sides.
The Build
For nonprofits ready for a comprehensive, hands-on engagement to develop and activate a stronger corporate partnership approach.
Jumpstart
For organizations that want focused strategy, a prioritized group of promising companies, and a clear, actionable plan for moving forward.
Blueprint
For nonprofit professionals who want to begin independently with a self-guided framework, videos and practical tools.
The Corporate Partnership Build
For nonprofits ready to build and activate a stronger corporate partnership approach.
The Corporate Partnership Build is my most comprehensive engagement. It’s designed for organizations that want more than advice or a list of prospects. We work together to clarify your value, identify where business relevance exists, focus on the right companies, and move opportunities forward with a practical, repeatable approach.
Depending on your organization’s needs and capacity, I can handle or support much of the work directly, including research, prospect prioritization, contact identification, relationship mapping, outreach strategy, messaging, outreach itself, discovery preparation, participation in conversations, and partnership design.
What the work can produce
The exact mix will vary by organization, but the engagement may include tools and outputs such as:
Partnership Foundation - a clear articulation of your organization’s assets, positioning, partnership priorities, and business-relevant value
Partner Archetypes - profiles of the types of companies most likely to align with your mission, programs, audiences, and opportunities
Prospect Opportunity Portfolio - a prioritized group of companies worth exploring, based on fit rather than volume
Prospect Profiles - relevant intelligence on selected companies, including priorities, relevant activity, decision-makers, relationships, and areas to explore
Relationship Mapping - visibility into existing connections, warm paths, board or staff relationships, and other routes into priority companies
Outreach Wave Plan - a focused sequence for approaching prospects, including messaging, timing, and follow-up
Partnership Design and Growth Planning - concepts and next steps shaped around what both sides learn through the process
This is not a rigid template applied the same way to every nonprofit. The tools are there to create structure, but the work is tailored to your mission, capacity, existing relationships, and goals.
What working together looks like
I bring the strategy, structure, research, facilitation, and hands-on support. Your team brings the mission knowledge, program expertise, relationships, and organizational context. The Build typically unfolds over several months, giving us time to move from positioning and research into outreach, discovery, and partnership development.
Together, we build an approach your organization can use now and continue strengthening over time.
The Corporate Partnership Jumpstart
For nonprofits that need a focused starting point and a practical way forward.
The Jumpstart is designed for organizations that want to strengthen their corporate partnership efforts but aren’t ready for a full Build.
We begin with a focused strategy session to look at your organization’s programs, audiences, relationships, current corporate activity, and potential business relevance.
From there, I develop a prioritized group of promising companies, the research and relationship intelligence behind them, and a practical plan your team can begin putting into action.
The goal is not to hand you a long prospect list. It’s to help you understand where to focus, why those opportunities matter, and how to make stronger first moves.
What’s Included
90-minute Corporate Partnership Strategy Session
A focused working session to understand your organization, current approach, partnership assets, goals, constraints, and opportunities.Partnership Direction Summary
A concise overview of your strongest partnership assets, business-relevant themes, target criteria, likely partner archetypes, and key priorities.5–7 Prioritized Company Prospects
A focused group of companies selected for fit, relevance, and potential rather than volume.Detailed Prospect Profiles
For each company, practical intelligence including why the company fits, relevant corporate priorities and activity, potential areas of alignment, recommended opening angles, key contacts, relationship intelligence, useful signals, and suggested next moves.Relationship Mapping Snapshot
A practical view of existing or potential connections through board members, staff, volunteers, donors, community partners, and other relationship paths.Outreach Wave Plan
A recommended sequence for approaching prospects, including timing, follow-up cadence, channels, and where warm introductions should be prioritized.Messaging Toolkit
Adaptable outreach language for warm introductions, email, LinkedIn, follow-up, and meeting requests.30-Day Action Plan
A simple set of next steps to help your team move from research into action.Prospect / Outreach Tracker
A working tool to help your team organize contacts, outreach, follow-up, and progress.45-minute Review Session
A walkthrough of the full package to explain the thinking, answer questions, and make sure your team understands how to use it.One Round of Revisions
Reasonable updates based on the review session.
A Good Fit If...
The Jumpstart is a strong fit if you know corporate partnerships deserve more attention, but you need help deciding where to focus, which companies are worth pursuing, and how to approach them more intentionally without committing to a longer engagement.
Investment
$1,250
Ready to Get Started?
If this sounds like the level of support your organization needs, we can start with a conversation about where you are today and what you’re trying to build.
The Corporate Partnership Blueprint
For nonprofit professionals who want to begin building a stronger corporate partnership approach on their own.
The Blueprint is a self-guided resource designed to help you move beyond one-off sponsorship thinking and begin taking a more intentional approach to corporate partnerships.
It gives you a practical framework for looking at your organization’s value, identifying companies worth exploring, organizing your research, and strengthening how you approach outreach.
What’s included
3 practical video lessons
Fillable worksheets and exercises
A Corporate Partnership Research Tracker
An Outreach Tracker
A Message Map
Guidance for identifying and evaluating potential corporate partners
Tools to help organize your outreach and next steps
The Blueprint is designed to help you move from “we should be doing more with corporate partnerships” to a clearer, more organized starting point you can work through at your own pace.
A good fit if...
You want practical guidance and tools, but you’re not ready for personalized strategy support or prefer to begin independently.
Workshops, Speaking, and Facilitation
Practical sessions that challenge assumptions and give nonprofit professionals something they can use.
I provide workshops, webinars, conference sessions, and facilitated conversations for nonprofit teams, professional communities, associations, and sector organizations.
The focus is usually corporate partnerships, shared value, business relevance, outreach, relationship-building, or the broader shifts changing how nonprofits engage supporters and partners.
Sessions are designed to be practical and conversational, with enough structure to move the discussion forward and enough flexibility to make room for real questions, examples, and participant experience.
Formats can include
Conference presentations and breakout sessions
Workshops and webinars
Team strategy sessions
Facilitated discussions and panels
Ask Me Anything sessions
Collaborative presentations with other nonprofit professionals
Whether the goal is to introduce a different way of thinking, help a team work through a specific challenge, or create a more useful conversation around corporate partnerships, I tailor the session to the audience and the outcome you’re trying to create.
Which Option Is Right for Me?
Choose the Build if...
You want a hands-on strategic partner to help develop and activate your corporate partnership approach, from positioning and research through outreach, conversations, and partnership design.
Choose the Jumpstart if...
You want focused strategy, a small group of promising business targets, and a practical plan you can begin putting into action without committing to a longer engagement.
Choose the Blueprint if...
You want to begin independently with a self-guided framework, practical tools, and a more organized way to approach corporate partnerships at your own pace.
Still Not Sure Where to Start?
You don’t need to decide before we talk.
A short conversation is usually enough to look at where your organization is today, what you’re trying to accomplish, and which level of support makes the most sense.