To help us identify organizations and projects that are most likely to benefit from our service, we require that organizations and projects meet the following ten criteria. If you have questions about whether your organization and/or project meet our selection criteria, please email us at contact@endeavourvolunteer.ca. Please also review our Approach to Consulting before proceeding to complete the Project Application Form.
1. Registered non-profit or charity: Your organization is incorporated as a non-profit organization or registered as a charity.
2. Budget: Your organization has an operating budget of about $1 million or less. Endeavour Volunteer Consulting for Non-Profits serves non-profit organizations that otherwise may not be able to afford consulting services. Departments/centres that have an operating budget of about $1 million or less, but are part of an organization with a multi-million dollar budget (e.g. hospitals/universities) are not eligible.
3. Human Resources: Your organization is staffed by volunteers and/or employees. You have a Board of Directors. You have the human resources to implement recommendations.
4. Years in Operations: Your organization or your parent organization has been in operation for a minimum of two years, with demonstrable achievements. With some consulting help, your organization can improve impact in the community.
5. Local: Your organization serves a local/provincial/national market in Canada. Endeavour Volunteer Consulting for Non-Profits does not have the expertise or resources to provide consulting services for international development projects.
6. Contact person: Your organization can provide a primary contact person for the project. This contact person must be accessible by email and telephone on a regular basis, and can meet in person with the consulting team in the Greater Toronto Area during the engagement, including outside regular work hours.
7. Project focus: Your project requires strategic analysis and advice in a business/management area (e.g. strategic planning, business planning, marketing strategy, feasibility study). We are not directly involved in the implementation of our recommendations, hence criteria #3 requires that your organization has the human resources to implement recommendations/plans. Please note, we do not provide the following services: workshop facilitation; volunteer/board member/staff training; report writing/editing based on strategies/plans that have already been developed; consulting requiring very specialized expertise (e.g. fundraising strategy, HR compensation strategy).
8. Project length: Your project can be designed to be completed in six months. Please note, there is the opportunity to continue working together on subsequent six-month projects through a phased consulting approach.
9. Expenses: Your project does not require Endeavour Volunteer Consulting for Non-Profits or its volunteers to incur expenses (this excludes general expenses associated with commuting within the Greater Toronto Area).
10. Evaluation: Your organization is committed to a post-project evaluation, including developing success metrics with the consulting team and cooperating in follow-up meetings with the Endeavour Executive Team to measure project success.
Our Approach to Consulting
If your organization and project meet our selection criteria, please review our Approach to Consulting.