Case Studies

“For nonprofits, financial sustainability and programmatic sustainability cannot be separated. It’s not enough for nonprofits to have a high-impact program if there’s no effective strategy for sustaining the organization financially. And neither is it enough to be financially stable: we build our organizations for impact, not financial stability.”

–Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka and Steve Zimmerman

North Star Reach

Strategic Growth Group assisted North Star Reach, a residential camp for children with serious health challenges, to develop a strategy to strengthen its organizational structure and enhance its social impact. READ MORE

Access of West Michigan

Access of West Michigan (Access) is a Grand Rapids-based organization that facilitates a network of Kent County Pantry Resource Centers. These organization have a common mission to improve access to healthy food within the local ecosystem. A subset of these agencies operate Pantry Farm Markets (the “Markets”), which are successfully increasing access and consumption of fresh produce among low-income customers. READ MORE