Testimonials

"We have been able to secure contracts that diversify our revenue base and help stabilize the organization. The difficulty for most nonprofits like us or for new nonprofits is capturing what we're doing in financial terms and turning that into a business plan. You gave a lot of help focusing the language into business terms. We can bring attention to our work and bring financial attention to our work. We have become financially intelligent from working with you. In our business plan and in our budget process and in our fund raising, you challenge us to be very precise about our plans to accomplish our vision. It doesn't cost us a lot of money either."

-- Atum Azzahir, Executive Director, Powderhorn Phillips Cultural Wellness Center

"The financial forecasts that we developed with Strategeries gave us information that was needed for our supporting partners. As we reorganized our financials and developed managerial financial reports, I could finally look at the programs and know exactly how much money we were making."

-- Mary Kay Kennedy, Co-director, Advocating Change Together

Our organization has worked with Strategeries on a comprehensive, intensive basis over a nine-month period evaluating and strengthening all elements of a sound organization -- program, financial, marketing/communications, fundraising, legal, Board, staffing and community base. Throughout this experience, Strategeries has revealed a wealth of integrated experience and knowledge that has been powerfully beneficial. But perhaps more importantly, the manner in which it has been done is one of great humanity. It has been honest, respectful, inclusive of all, revealing of our own strengths and even humorous at times. The net result is positive change that lasts. Strategeries was, and continues to be, a very wise investment for our organization.

-- Rick Devich, Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota

Thank you so much for all the work you have done for us. You should be very proud of your company. Strategeries is a highly professional team. Your team demonstrated an outstanding intelligence and creativity in getting the job done. I was particularly impressed by your capacity to distill complex information into a coherent format. We are also grateful for the focused energy and commitment with which you pursued all tasks at hand. It is evident that Strategeries stands behind its commitments to getting the job done.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. This was a difficult project and could not have been completed without your perseverance and dedication.

-- Alice Johnson, Then-CFO, Planned Parenthood of MN/SD

"The sensitivity of the Strategeries partners to the cultural needs of our board, staff and community members (ensuring all dialogues at our retreat were translated into the Hmong language) helped us create a united vision for this organization."

-- Eng Herr, Executive Director, Hmong Minnesota Pacific Association

"Peg Thomas and Steven Lassiter Strategeries are among the acme of nonprofit consultants. Their deep knowledge of nonprofit finance and management, coupled with years of experience with common nonprofit challenges make the advice and knowledge they bring to the organization invaluable. Their ability to hone in on key issues and barriers to complete the organizations goals, even beyond what is visible to executive staff and board members, gives them a strength beyond measure in not only addressing near term issues like a capital campaign or business financing strategy, but also putting systems in place that ensure the organizations’ health for a long and prosperous future.

Their breadth of experience across many nonprofit verticals coupled with long experience working with multicultural communities gives them the tools for an extremely creative approach that is well suited to the needs, barriers, and sensitivities of the organizations they work for, and the communities which those organizations serve.”

-- Matt Hoerauf, Executive Director Cranbrook Peace Foundation

"Peg and Steven have been instrumental in guiding our business through many tough times. Their indepth knowledge in helping small business has attracted many clients for us including the Green Institute of MN, Native Harvest and IB International. Today they continue to help our business grow.

-- Bill Yang, Priority One Technologies