I’m excited that my sister Amy will be coming up to Boston, where she just got a job with Common Impact as a consultant. I’m a big fan of Common Impact, not just because we are friends with its founder/CEO, but also because as someone who’s been in nonprofits and nonprofit IT, I know that many mission-driven organizations are desperate for better technology infrastructure.
Hopefully Amy’s blog won’t suffer overmuch when she moves from the fashion capital that is New York City to the relative backwaters of Boston.
What kind of consulting is it?
From the looks of the website, looks like relationship consulting within the internals of an organization. But what is it actually called?
To the best of my knowledge, Common Impact’s technical consulting involves a strategic analysis of the nonprofit’s needs, then matching in-kind resources from the private sector (a/k/a volunteers) to meet those needs. So I don’t think CI does direct implementation. (My previous organization had applied for assistance from CI).
CI also recently merged with another organization that provides marketing help, but I’m not really familiar with that side at all.