Private & Family Foundations

Private foundations often encounter a wide gap between the strategy agreed upon by the board, and the internal organizational structure necessary to carry it out. FSG can help align a foundation's organization and operations to effectively support its strategy.

Unless a foundation's strategy is aligned with its structure and operations, it will fall short of its aspirations.

FSG helps private foundations bring their organizational management systems, decision making processes, reporting, and infrastructure in synch with their strategies. We begin by analyzing the design choices implied by the strategy. Then, we work to define the needed organization structure and processes, and compare this future vision with the status quo to uncover similarities and differences.

We create a detailed action plan to map out the steps to successful implementation. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, but instead a careful and collaborative process geared toward achieving excellence. Our operations and organization-related services include:

• Organizational alignment and governance. How should our organization be structured to best support our strategy?
• Change management. How can we create and manage an orderly process to move quickly from the status quo to our new strategy and organizational structure?