Process
Clients

Non-Profit Ventures was founded by James R. Krause in 1992 to help non-profit organizations become optimally effective. Knowing that business savvy is critical to long-term success, he launched a firm dedicated to improving organizations’ business practices so that they could deliver high-quality services at reasonable cost.

Non-Profit Ventures understands that
	Non-profit corporations are often much more complex than for-profit businesses. In a society where retailers often have no contact with consumers, non-profit service providers almost always have frequent contact with their customers. The management and satisfaction of customers is a critical and often difficult part of doing business.

	Non-profits operate under one of several different organizational models, which often are not well understood by the boards of directors and staffs who run the agencies, causing major organizational dysfunction and failures of legal responsibility.
	Non-profit business operations are often not well understood or managed by those responsible for them. Operating budgets, fund raising and finance are the three major sources of non-profit angst and failure.

Process
Non-Profit Ventures utilizes a strategic assessment process that proves much more effective than the typical strategic plan. Institutional Assessment enables the non-profit to resolve major operating problems, redesign for added organizational strength, and successfully address the requirements of complex projects. Governance, management, staffing, marketing, business systems, finances, and program needs are all individually assessed and reassembled as part of an integrated organizational whole.

The result of this work is a stronger, more agile corporation that has significantly more operational and financial capacity.

Clients
Our clients represent the spectrum of organizational types whose unique organizational characteristics and challenges require individually-tailored solutions. The chart below describes some of the organizational models and challenges to which Non-Profit Ventures can provide solutions.