The non-profit and public sector practice within Surje & Company serves clients by assessing performance relative to their mission, not financial returns. The work focuses on ways in which our clients can become most effective at achieving their mission and making a distinctive, long-lasting impact. This is done by determining consistent and intelligent methods of assessing the results of their work and tracking your results with rigor.

A common problem that clients from these sectors describe is integrating best practices from business into their own organization. Time and again, clients come to us with this problem, frustrated that the path they see successful companies follow to achieve greatness is simply not working for them.

At the core of this problem is the fact that the methods, approaches and frameworks used by successful companies share a common goal (or output) that nonprofits and the public sector do not - making money. For nonprofits and public sector organizations, money is an input, not an output. Much like for-profit companies, the funds that come into nonprofits and public sectors organizations are to be used to accomplish a goal or task. Unlike for-profit companies though, the result of accomplishing the goal or task is not money or shareholder return.

Instead, for nonprofits and the public sector, the desired result is the accomplishment of the mission of the organization. The methods and frameworks used by many successful businesses rely on measureable outputs, in the form of profit and the bottom line. The challenge for nonprofits and the public section is that their mission or outputs often defy measurement. Achieving progress in outputs thus becomes difficult to assess and in the absence of a specific target, organizations falter and deliver less than they are capable.

We invite you to learn how Surje & Company can assist your nonprofit or public sector organization by contacting us to arrange a meeting.