How We Work

Common Great offers a fresh alternative to outdated consulting models that haven’t kept up with the changing realities of life on the front lines of social change. 

We’re not cookie-cutter; our project and partnership models offer different price points, degrees of integration with your team, and levels of accountability for our role in the process. Each can be scaled and right-sized to meet your organization where you are. 

We operate with an iterative culture of teaching and continuous learning that sets you up to succeed after our work together. We constantly test innovative ideas and emerging practices in real-time across all our clients, and apply those lessons to your organization too.

Our Projects and Partnership Models

  • Consulting

    Need some ongoing advice, tools, and resources to help you move forward with confidence? We’ve got you covered with affordable ongoing consulting arrangements.

  • Coaching

    Need a partner for accountability and prioritizing tasks? We can add that to our Consulting projects to help make sure you and your team make the absolute most of your investment.

  • Power Sessions

    Need a bite, but not a full meal? Enter Power Sessions! Book a 60 or 90-minute video call that can flexibly address your priorities however you choose. Come prepared to discuss and explore your challenges, questions, barriers, and gray areas!

  • Strategy Design & Planning

    Need a road map for the future? We create customized fundraising and marketing strategies and plans that reflect your mission, brand, community, and internal capacity.

  • Assessments & Audits

    Hit a plateau with your fundraising and marketing? We’ll study your activities and results and diagnose your challenges. We’ll prescribe right-sized solutions that meet you where you are now, identify future potential, and include a pragmatic, prioritized implementation plan for getting there.

  • Collaborative Project Implementation

    Need expertise and some help getting the work done? We’ll collaborate to design your project, campaign, or initiative - and jump in to help get it done. Marketing automation, digital advertising, capital or capacity campaigns, recurring giving programs, end-of-year campaigns, direct mail, CRM selection, and more — we can tackle it all together.

  • Fractional Talent

    Need staff coverage during a transition, or can’t afford full-time staff with the right experience and expertise? We can integrate ourselves into your team to drive the work and achieve results. Fractional talent projects generally include strategy design and coaching alongside our execution support, and can be designed around specific priorities.

  • Workshops & Trainings

    Need to educate, train, or develop your staff or board’s understanding of something specific? Our workshops and trainings can be customized to your goals and the right level of depth and detail.

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Focus Areas

  • Development

    Common Great can help you build an effective development and fundraising program that delivers the strategy, clarity, team, and tools you need to raise more money in an ethical, inclusive fashion.

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  • Communications

    Our team can help you master the ever-changing communications and marketing strategies and tactics you need to stay relevant, grow your audience, and change the world in the process.

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  • Tools and Technology

    Our team can leverage our research and field usage of nonprofit communications, database and giving tools to connect your technology dots, save you time, and help generate actionable insights.

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