Your organization is a critical community resource. CARE FOR IT LIKE IT IS
Unlock its potential with focused guidance to address your organization's unique barriers to growth and sustainability.
About ElevateNPT
Our Approach
At ElevateNPT, we are on a mission – a mission to strengthen nonprofit leadership. Why? Because strong board and executive director leadership drives extraordinary impact.
For nonprofit board members, we:
- Clarify the scope of their role and the importance of their responsibilities
- Coach them on governance best practices
- Hone their strategic focus
- Build professional skills in conflict resolution, team building, team leadership, and strategy formulation and execution
For nonprofit Executive Directors, we strengthen their:
- Knowledge of best practices in the board–executive partnership
- Financial acumen
- Strategic leadership and change management skills
- Use of evaluation and impact data to inform decision-making
We work closely with your team to understand your goals and challenges, collaborating to develop solutions that meet your specific needs. From one-day intensive trainings to recurring 15-minute board education sessions to one-on-one executive coaching, our goal is to help your organization and its leaders create positive change for the community you serve.
Our Expertise
The ElevateNPT team has decades of experience coaching underperforming organizations and guiding successful nonprofit organizations to greater mission impact. Through focused attention on goals, board performance, executive director support, and operational infrastructure, these organizations have achieved improved effectiveness and targeted outcomes.
Our Leadership
Our CEO Sue Moore Fenske has worked with organizations in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, successfully creating operating infrastructure and business culture that led to increased revenue and greater public awareness. She has devised business development and communications strategies for companies in health care, engineering, entertainment, education, banking, and social services, including complete strategy and action plans, public/media/government relations, organizational assessment and restructuring, and change management.
Fenske’s experience as a business owner and executive has honed her ability to identify critical growth and sustainability opportunities and challenges and to devise effective strategies to ensure success. As a fund development professional, she consistently hit revenue targets by successfully aligning key organizational objectives with the philanthropic goals of donors. Her many years of working with nonprofit boards has helped board members better understand their roles and responsibilities, leading to greater engagement, performance, and satisfaction.
An alumna of Stephens College and University of Louisville, Fenske holds an MBA and bachelor’s degrees in engineering science and communications.
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