Our Comprehensive Service Offerings
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This is What We Do.
Purposeworks helps nonprofit and social-purpose organizations strengthen their ability to deliver sustained social impact in environments defined by constraint, complexity, and increasing public accountability. We deliver our services through three intentionally connected practices - Consulting, Coaching, and Fractional Workplace Solutions and combined based on what each situation requires.
Three Integrated Practices
Purposeworks combines advisory thinking with subject-matter expertise in governance, leadership development, workforce systems, communications and positioning, advocacy, privacy and financial management. Our approach integrates problem solving through consulting, leadership and capacity coaching and fractional workforce integration.
Consulting
Understanding how systems function, identifying root causes, and making informed choices about alignment, capacity, and risk.
Coaching
Supporting leaders and boards as they navigate responsibility, ambiguity, and pressure through grounded, organizational reality.
Fractional Workforce
Providing temporary resources and capacity for stabilization, transition, or system realignment with clear mandates and exit conditions.
Our Practice
Consulting
We help solve problems by helping organizations see their systems clearly, understand root causes, and make informed choices about trade-offs. We provide solutions with the idea of integration, change management and practical application. We don't believe in writing a report that never sees implementation.
Governance & People Systems
In-depth support for board governance, workforce systems, accreditation support and organizational design that helps leaders make decisions that are clear, fair, and sustainable.
Financial Sustainability & Fund Diversification
Analysis and strategy to strengthen financial resilience, diversify revenue, and align funding models with mission and capacity.
Communications & Alignment
From marketing and community communications to product and service alignment we design approaches that ensure your external presence reflects your internal purpose through meaningful story telling.
Privacy Systems Design
Operating in a state of compliance can be an extra burden on organizations already stretched thin. We provide analysis of the needs to be compliant and provide all of the tools and systems to get you up to speed.
We do not separate strategy from implementation, or analysis from organizational reality. Enterprise problem solving requires both careful analysis and practical application.
Our Practice
Coaching
Executive and board coaching at Purposeworks is treated as a disciplined professional practice with its own standards, responsibilities, and approach. Coaching plays a critical role in helping organizations translate insight into action and developing competencies that increase effectiveness.
Board Governance Coaching
Boards are increasingly stretched to adopt standards and systems that comply with funder requirements, accreditation standards and best practices. Our coaches work with boards and directors to adopt updated practices, policy frameworks and training through a coaching relationship.
Leadership Coaching
Executive Directors and CEOs are increasingly burdened with so many aspects of an organization. Wearing that many hats often leads to burn-out and high-turnover. Our coaching approach is to help leaders navigate this reality to provide clarity, priority setting and hold accountable. Let's face it - being in charge can be lonely. We get it and can help.
Executive Coaching
We support leaders wherever they are in an organization. Our coaching methodology applies to anyone in an organization to adopt new approaches, insights and disciplines as part of their individual learning journey.
Coaching at Purposeworks is not therapeutic or detached from context. It is about how leaders show up in the roles they hold and be the best versions of themselves they can be.
Our Practice
Fractional Workforce Solutions
Fractional workforce solutions at Purposeworks is our solution for organizations that have a need for additional professional resources as part of their systems - but lack the financial resources to hire someone full-time. It's frustrating when there is work to do, but not enough hands or budget to make it happen.
We provide interim staffing or gap filling. Fractional team members are brought in to do the work - at your direction and within your systems and within the budget you can afford. They are not employees - just contracted workers with high knowledge and experience - who act as employee resources.
Assess
We determine what your desired output is for a particular role, understand what resources you have and what the timeline is for the work.
Design
Every fractional role is intentionally designed with clear scope, authority, reporting structures, and defined outcomes from the outset.
Deliver
Our fractional leaders report into your organizational framework and systems for 6-18 months depending on scope. They work at your direction and deliver on your expectations.
Transfer
Every engagement is designed to end well, building internal capability, transferring knowledge, and leaving your organization stronger and more independent. Success for us is filling a gap, while helping the organization identify how to permanently fill a capacity for the long-term.
Why These Practices Belong Together
Purposeworks views consulting, coaching, and fractional workplace solutions as deeply interdependent disciplines, not isolated offerings. Addressing complex organizational challenges effectively requires a holistic approach, integrating these distinct practices for lasting impact.
Consulting Without Coaching
Produces insight without sustained behavioral change, leaving strategies unimplemented.
Coaching Without Consulting
Places unrealistic expectations on leaders within broken systems, hindering true progress.
Fractional Workforce Solutions Alone
Offers short-term stabilization without critical learning or knowledge transfer.
We intentionally combine these practices, tailoring support to the situation's specific needs. Our methodology identifies the most limiting constraint, ensuring proportionate and effective solutions for genuine organizational improvements.
Ready to Work Together?
We work with organizations that care deeply about their mission and are operating under real pressure. If that sounds like you, we'd love to connect.
Start a Conversation
Tell us about your organization and the challenges you're navigating. We'll be honest about whether and how we can help.
We respectfully acknowledge that Purposeworks' offices are located on the unsurrendered and unceded traditional Wolastoqey (WOOL-US-TOOK-WAY) land. The lands of Wabanaki (WAH-BAH-NAH-KEE) people are recognized in a series of Peace and Friendship Treaties to establish an ongoing relationship of peace, friendship and mutual respect between equal nations. We recognize the Wabanaki who have been the traditional stewards of this land for countless generations, and we pay our respects to their elders past and present. We recognize the enduring presence and contributions of these peoples, who have lived on and cared for this land since time immemorial.
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