What you pay attention to grows.

- adrienne maree brown

Services

    • Strategic Planning

    • Strategy Refreshes

    • Implementation & Work Planning

    • Role Clarity & Cross-Team Action Planning

    • Fundraising Feasibility Studies

    • Design, Implementation and Management of Capital, Comprehensive & Other Major Fundraising Campaigns

    • Major Donor Fundraising Strategy & Coaching

    • Board Assessments

    • Board Governance Trainings

    • Board Chair & Executive Director Coaching

    • Board Structure Analysis and Development

    • Individual Leadership Coaching

    • Leadership Team Coaching

    • Co & Shared Leadership Models

    • Individualized and Team-Based Training

    • Staff Retreat Design & Facilitation

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Experience & Expertise

Four Stones Consulting provides experienced strategic planning, strategy refreshes, work planning support, and tailored organizational development support.

Strategic planning processes are designed to be straightforward, collaborative and cost effective.

We also see strategy work as an opportunity to nurture culture with intentional staff, board and community engagement.

Strategic planning is a dynamic process, and we design ours to include leave behind tools and approaches to help deepen practices for adaptive, responsive and forward thinking activation.

Strategy

Skilled consulting services for capital campaign and major fundraising initiatives are our jam.

We love major fundraising campaigns from the $15 million capital campaign project to the $2 million program expansion initiative and more.

Capital, comprehensive and other major fundraising campaigns are huge opportunities for organizations to strengthen their donor foundation, organizational infrastructure and launch or catalyze major mission impact opportunities.

Resources

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Having worked with many boards, including as board members and executive directors, we believe that intentional and inclusive board governance can be transformational for organizations and the individuals doing the work.

Our team provides board assessments, board structure and governance model evaluation and design, board retreat design and facilitation, board governance training, Board Chair and Executive Director coaching and board goal setting and planning support.

Governance

Leadership is a practice and an ongoing journey. We provide thoughtful leadership coaching, development and ongoing support to leaders - broadly defined.

From navigating constantly shifting environments and contexts, to organizational conflict, to decision making and role clarity, to transformative change and organizational growth and beyond, we design tailored coaching and facilitation engagements that help you navigate really hard stuff with tools, support, and experience.

We provide 1:1 coaching sessions, group sessions with leadership teams or dyads, co-leadership coaching and support, leadership retreat design and facilitation. We tailor these engagements to your specific needs.

Leadership

Fee Structure

We structure our fees based on the project, with a goal to center equity in how we’re paid and how we price our services.

We take a dual approach to sliding fee discounts - organizational budget size and organizations whose mission, leadership, and constituency are most impacted by systemic inequities.

This is a work in progress.

Currently, we discuss sliding fee scale options with prospective clients and work with you to align our scope, fees and approach with your budget, financial realities, mission, leadership and constituencies.

We strive for equity in how we are paid and how we price our services.

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  • Alissa brings a balance of curiosity, intuition, and knowledge to the work, which helped our organization navigate a delicate leadership transition decision. We have come through the work even stronger because of her deft guidance.

    —Michele Drozd, Founder & Executive Director | Craigardan

  • The impact created by our experience with Alissa will be felt well beyond her scope of work with us. She is values-based and community-driven, focused on meeting our goals. Her attention to detail, her approach to our goals in an organized and thoughtful manner, and her care for our team along the way were why we met our goals. I would recommend Four Stones to any and all.

    —Casey Nichols, Board Chair, QUEERSPACE collective

  • Four Stones Consulting helped Open Your Heart develop a community‑centered strategic plan grounded in meaningful input from stakeholders, board members, and staff. Their intentional guidance and supportive approach ensured we felt heard, engaged, and well‑supported throughout the process.

    — Jessica Mathias, Executive Director | Open Your Heart