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Quarterly Workstream Update: The Operations Work Making Nonprofits Stronger
4 min readJul 1, 2025
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Our mission is to provide nonprofits with operational support, training, resources and guidance to help them:
I’m personally passionate about eliminating the operational bottlenecks that limit nonprofit effectiveness. While in businesses, it’s easy to measure effectiveness in terms of finances, nonprofits don’t have that metric, so maximizing impact becomes a little more of an obscure metric. We’re here to solve that problem. We’re here to give nonprofits the support they need to achieve maximum impact.
We're excited to introduce our newest offering designed to transform how nonprofits operate and scale. Our 6-session Operations Bootcamp provides hands-on implementation support tailored specifically to your organization's needs.
What you'll gain:
Each session is customized to your unique challenges, with real-time implementation support that goes beyond theory. You'll leave with systems that scale with your mission and a stronger operations team.
Early Bird Special: The first 8 organizations save 20% - just $1,200 (regularly $1,500) for the complete program.
Ready to build operational excellence? Apply Now
The first step in successfully soliciting funds is telling a clear, well-laid-out story with complete transparency into your programs and numbers. This isn't easy, and the lack of clarity in these areas is often the cause for funding not being approved. That's why we partnered with Strategic Management & Logistics (they help with grant applications in addition to a variety of other operations support) to create Ready, Set, Grant: a comprehensive 3-session workshop series to prepare nonprofit organizations for grant funding success.
Our core service area focuses on optimizing nonprofit operations across five critical areas: people, process, culture, engagement, and technology. We use proven business systems expertise to create measurable improvements in organizational effectiveness.
Our programs include:
Our implementation services address a key challenge we see with operations clients: nonprofits need the right combination of people, systems, and processes to support their improved workflows and operate more effectively.
Our implementation services include:
We're looking for a total of 6 nonprofits that are ready to optimize their operations to join us on the journey towards operational success. We've seen great improvement on org impact as a result of our programs, and I can't wait to help more nonprofits see the same impact in their organizations.
DEADLINE EXTENDED to July 3rd, 2025; Apply Now
Our webinar series focuses on core components of successful nonprofit leadership. Register now for our upcoming webinars:
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Past webinars:
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It’s hard to know exactly what partner you need and whom to trust. We’re here to help you solve that problem. Whether you need a pro bono consultant for a short engagement or are looking for a service provider you can trust, we have many partners to connect you with.
Many organizations in the EA world have similar needs but lack the bandwidth or expertise to realize them. By providing a directory of experts covering many common challenges, we aim to save the movement time while addressing key skill shortages.
As part of our mission to give nonprofits the resources they need to grow, we offer complimentary coaching sessions to help organizations get started. Every nonprofit receives two initial consulting sessions or workflow evaluations, plus one free session each quarter. A little targeted guidance can go a long way toward making a greater impact.
If you're feeling overwhelmed with trying to run an organization, I can't recommend Deena enough. - Kat Woods, Nonlinear
Deena's ability to step into a fast-moving organization and provide immediate structure and support has been a huge asset. I highly recommend her to any organization looking for experienced operational leadership. - Oliver Zhang, Center for AI Safety
Deena’s expertise is invaluable... She is extremely skilled at distilling processes down to their core steps and defining the actions necessary to move work through to completion. I can’t recommend her highly enough! - Marie Schell, Conflict Resolution Center of Baltimore County
We really appreciated the support we were able to get from WorkStream in setting up our operations. I especially appreciated that this was an org that was familiar with EA/non-profits. - Beatrice Erkers, Foresight Institute
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We look forward to partnering with you to establish your nonprofit's operational infrastructure to scale and thrive!
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