The Fractional Advantage

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Challenge: A new affiliate office launches with a commitment of $1.5M in outside support over three years. Expectations for results are high. Board and stakeholders expect to see varied programs, advocacy, and community engagement—alongside a realistic plan to achieve sustainability—within the period. Less than half the annual investment can go to staff.

Fractional solution: Instead of multiple direct hires, a couple of fractional leaders efficiently launch the strategy and functions needed to meet requirements, doing so for less than the cost of one full-time role.

Challenge: An established nonprofit has achieved a steady trajectory of support over the first lifecycle stage, but struggles to breakthrough the next level in annual revenue. To break through, leaders know they must invest in new program products that diversify revenue streams. Yet the team runs at full capacity with the current program and fundraising portfolio.

Fractional solution: A fractional leader is hired to focus on new product development and marketing without distracting existing leaders from the day-to-day or adding to long-term overhead. 

Challenge: A decades-old NPO with nine-figure revenue is undergoing a strategic redesign effort. Leadership is preparing for significant people, process, and technology upgrades to achieve aspirations for global expansion. The longstanding executive team recognizes it would benefit from help to upgrade its ways of thinking and working in order to lead the charge.

Fractional solution: A fractional leader, veteran of multiple transformation initiatives, is hired as transformation architect and fractional Chief of Staff to help launch the multi-year effort.

Challenge: Since the pandemic, an organization has undergone multiple CEO and philanthropy leader transitions. Development operations have become lax, and stakeholder relationships have taken a hit. The board and transitional leadership call for a full assessment and stabilization period before making new hires.

Fractional solution: A fractional leader joins to diagnose development and fundraising, make recommendations on the profiles needed and priorities for them, then manage until the CEO and philanthropy head are onboarded.