One-to-One Support: What do grantees choose?
Explore our catalog of coaching and consulting project ideas — built from more than 600 recent projects — and see what capacity building looks like in practice.
Financial management & planning
12 customisable projects
Accounting software selection & implementation
Challenge:
“You are managing organisational finances in spreadsheets — and your funders are asking for project-level reporting you simply cannot produce.”
Audit readiness support
Challenge:
“Your first statutory audit is approaching — or a previous audit raised concerns — and your records, reconciliations, and documentation are not ready.”
Budget framework development
Challenge:
“Every project manager budgets differently — consolidation is a nightmare and leadership has no real oversight of where money is going.”
Build a reserves policy and financial health metrics
Challenge:
“You have no financial reserves, so any unexpected event could become an existential crisis.”
Cash flow forecasting & financial modelling
Challenge:
“You can't get a reliable picture of your cash position three months out — so every late payment or budget decision feels like a gamble.”
Endowment & long-term financial strategy
Challenge:
“Donors have expressed interest in legacy or larger gifts but you have no policy, structure, or strategy to receive or manage them — so those conversations go nowhere.”
Financial management capacity assessment
Challenge:
“You suspect your financial management isn't where it should be — but you don't know exactly what needs fixing or where the real risks are.”
Financial planning for operational decisions
Challenge:
“Big decisions — on hiring, expanding programmes, or accepting a restricted grant — are made on gut feel because you have no financial model to test them against.”
Financial policies & procedures review
Challenge:
“Your financial policies are outdated, incomplete, or exist only as a document nobody has read — leaving the organisation exposed to risk and audit findings.”
Financial reporting training for non-finance staff
Challenge:
“Programme staff submit budgets and financial reports they don't really understand — errors creep in, timelines slip, and nobody is confident the numbers are right.”
Financial sustainability & reserves planning
Challenge:
“You live grant cycle to grant cycle with no reserves — one late payment or unexpected cost away from a crisis, and your board knows it.”
Grant budget maximisation workshop
Challenge:
“You routinely undercharge in grant budgets — missing out on staff time, overheads, and legitimate costs that funders would have covered.”