ABOUT US
Scaling Up Social Sector is committed to empowering social sector organizations and non-profits with the best education, tools, and community, so they can have a greater impact and more freedom to serve more clients. We realize that there are very few educational institutions or consulting firms that serve the average nonprofit/social/ sector organization.
We have and continue to develop practical action based tools to increase the impact and effectiveness of the organizations. We are part of Scaling Up, a Gazelles Inc. company, a community that provides executive education, coaching, and technology services to help mid-market companies around the world build and execute a strategic plan. Scaling Up focuses on helping executive teams make the right decisions when it comes to four key areas: people, strategy, execution, and cash. We call this the Four Decisions® Methodology.
Over the past decade, social sector organizations have used these tools and realize they are universal applicability. We have recently modified and added tools for the nonprofit/social/ sector and created Scaling Up Social to provide it to the social sector community.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Why as a social sector/Non-Profit Organization, do I need to scale?
How is Scale Up Social Sector different than the Gazelles that caters to for-profit companies?
1. We serve the 5% of the market economy that for-profits don’t want.
2. Much of the funding is government contracts with low reimbursement on overhead and no premium for risk or efficiency.
3. NonProfit Growth is challenged with few fixed assets as security for debt-based expansion.
4. NonProfit Growth is challenged without equity owners, Charitable gifts and small surpluses build reserves slowly for sustainability.
5. Nonprofit leaders perform a balancing act between client stakeholders and funders with different priorities.
6. The Board of Directors is required for even the smallest nonprofit. It has its own complexities that for-profit companies face only when revenues typically soar over $100 million.
7. Nonprofits devote more time to training and onboarding because for-profit companies continually drain away key staff with better compensation and benefits.
8. Nonprofits face more political pressure because government funding priorities often change with elections.
9. 55% of all nonprofits have small budgets for learning since their revenue is less than $50,000.
10. Nonprofits typically have complex revenue streams with government contracts, fee for service, charitable gifts, foundations and corporate grants, and donor advised funds.
What Non-Profits are best suited for Scale Up Social Sector?
1. Volunteer led – these are often community nonprofits with few paid employees and a one generation life span. We see the needs of these leaders for continuous learning and volunteer development and management and Scaling Up has tools which may be helpful. Many Volunteer led nonprofit leaders have expressed a need for learning but are frustrated by the time or money commitment of traditional consulting.
2. Professional led – These nonprofits are financed almost 100% by government grants. They are hemmed in by inefficiencies of contract bureaucracies (ex. only use blue ink, make 3 carbon copies). Leaders are desperate to be coached for flawless execution while avoiding arbitrary penalties for noncompliance from government.
3. Cause driven – These are member led organizations that spring from communities of need. Their entrepreneurial DNA made their nonprofit possible so they are ideal candidates to everything that Scaling Up can offer.
4. Entrepreneurial Commercial – As USA nonprofit funding changed in 1980 and 2008 from a pattern of funding agencies to giving vouchers to consumers, it has unleashed forces that were unknown to the nonprofit world. A new group of leaders have sprung up who demand financials that can be used to make decisions and recruit board members who see no conflict between due diligence and agility. This group is also ready for the complete Scaling Up toolset.
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Who We Are
Verne Harnish
Founder and CEO of Gazelles,
Author of "Scaling Up"
Whether educating over 7,000 in Amsterdam or an intimate group of 300 customers for a major client, Verne Harnish connects with his global audience in an unforgettable way. Verne is the founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 14,000 members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants” held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.
Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 16,000 members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.
Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 200 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup.
He’s the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; and wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) which has been translated into 22 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book. His latest book, Scaling Up Compensation, rocketed to the #1 HR book on Amazon.
Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summits and serves on several boards including vice chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Verne serves on several boards including chairman of The Riordan Clinic and the newly launched Geoversity. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Ronald Tompkins
Managing Partner and Principal Coach,
TurnAround NonProfit Coaching
Dr. Ronald Dale Tompkins is Managing Partner and Principal Coach of TurnAround NonProfit Coaching. His passion for empowering nonprofits comes from a career in the sector and leadership roles in five different agencies.
The thought leadership that Dr. Ron brings to clients for coaching includes:
- Management Accountant associated with the Institute of Management Accountants
- Certified Scaling Up Coach
- Ph.D. in Higher Education Policy (Buffalo)
- MBA in Finance (State University of New York)
- Harvard University Strategy and Innovation Executive Leadership Program
Dr. Ron is married and has children and foster children in the USA and southeast Asia. He has been a member of the Indo-Chinese Caucus and Cambodian Caucus of the United Methodist Church. He is now a long-term resident of New York City.
Contact him at tompkir1@gmail.com
His thought leader website is https://taconsulting.live/
