Consulting Packages
We can help your organization make a meaningful impact! We provide consulting services to impact-driven organizations and companies, sharing our knowledge with the leadership of other institutions in the coffee and development sectors. Our non-competitive and collaborative approach ensures other innovators are able to see a greater impact of their own work.
Our consulting services focus on Sustainability Assessment; Sustainability Reporting; Supply Chain Research; Program/Project Planning, Development, and Management; Monitoring and Evaluation; and Grant Writing and Fundraising.
Sustainability Assessment Package
Whether you are a company with long-term action on sustainability, or a company new to the development of a sustainability strategy, our team has a package for you. We work to design and execute a comprehensive analysis of your company, focusing on your purpose and values, internal relations and investment capacities, and external partnerships and long-term interests. This allows us to either identify and make recommendations for a new sustainability strategy, or to share opportunities to improve an existing strategy. Our goal is to support you in reaching your goals and to help you design an action plan for the implementation of those goals. Review our process and deliverables below, and contact us today. Let us help you design or improve your sustainability strategy, and increase your capacity to measure the impact of your activities over time.
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This package includes:
Kick-Off Meeting
Discuss sustainability tenets, company purpose, and contract alignment
Review
Review existing documentation to produce a report outlining successes to date and opportunities for growth
Stakeholder Conversation
Discuss sustainability improvements for the company and goals for the future, ending with a report outlining feedback
Recommendations
Elaboration of recommendations and an action plan to put ideas into practice
Sustainability Reporting Package
For both companies and organizations, reporting on the impact of activities or proving the traceability of actions is of paramount importance. To support annual or transparency reporting processes, we work with clients to help them understand how they should categorize and indicate their activities to best demonstrate efficacy and impact. In addition, we ensure that reporting aligns with an institution’s values and capacities, as well as with their goals for market-based or external positioning. While working with both companies and organizations to design and confirm their reporting protocols, we are also able to build knowledge within their internal teams, allowing them to improve measurement and reporting capacities over time. Review our process and deliverables below, and contact us today to learn more. Let us help you better understand and report on the outcome of your activities, and the impact they have on various stakeholders or beneficiaries.
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This package includes:
Kick-Off
Kick-off meeting to provide guidance on impact or transparency reporting, and to discuss a group’s values and reporting/sustainability goals
Analyze
Analyze existing structures and review available data to prepare a report on current methodologies and recommend a future methodology
Review
Review and confirm the new report methodology via a validation process
Implement
Add-on to support the implementation of the new process and draft a full report (optional)
Grant Writing and Fundraising Package
Our team develops and authors competitive grant proposals for non-profit organizations to support them in securing funding for their programs and projects. For support on a specific grant opportunity, we offer a la carte writing services. For groups that are looking to learn more about the grant process so that they can fundraise independently, we have developed a package with a strong learning component. By the end of the consulting relationship with The Chain Collaborative, appropriate staff members of the contracting organization will feel confident in their abilities to write competitive grant proposals and communicate their work in accurate, current, and inspiring ways to a number of audiences. Review our process and deliverables below, and contact us today. Let us help you promote your activities, initiatives, and objectives to value-aligned partners.
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This package includes:
Training Session
An initial 2-hour training session with appropriate staff to provide guidance on the grant-writing process
Review
Review of existing applications, with written feedback about the organization’s existing grant writing approach to one program
Implementation
Elaboration of a grant proposal and letter of intent for up to two real non-profit funders
Expanded Implementation
The drafting of introductory communications for up to three types of funders