Strategic planning, facilitation, governance, and organizational development services to support nonprofit organizations to advance social, economic, environmental, and racial justice.
All services and facilitations can be provided virtually or in person.
As nonprofit strategy consultants with decades of on-the-ground nonprofit staff and board leadership experience, we understand the myriad of challenges that today’s nonprofits, public agencies, and foundations face.
We partner with influential Bay Area community-based organizations that advance social justice, address systemic inequities, and increase well-being in the community. We listen deeply to our clients and their constituents. Together we create customized and collaborative data-driven strategies to help organizations tackle complex problems, navigate transitions, form and strengthen partnerships, deepen constituent engagement, and create meaningful change.
We are an anti-racist organization committed to furthering diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging in our work and in our partnerships. Read more about our values and approach.
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Our Consultation Tools:
Board self-assessments, board development, and training
Fund development strategy and planning
Market research and landscape analysis
Change management
Training and workshops
Design thinking and human-centered design
Facilitation (board, staff, community, coalition, and multi-stakeholder collaborative meetings)
Deep listening
Your Results:
Clarity of mission, vision, strategy, direction and priorities
Staff, board, and stakeholder alignment
Strong and effective leaders and teams
Enhanced brand recognition and Increased visibility
Broadened network and funding base
Expanded and diversified revenue
Strategic and leveraged partnerships
A roadmap to guide priorities
A strategy screen to guide decision-making
Organizational sustainability
Deepened mission impact
Belinda Lyons-Newman, MBA
Principal & Founder
Photo Credit: Myrna Kresh
The Team
We are strategic thinkers with direct experience leading nonprofit organizations as executive staff and board members.
Our Clients
Our passion is to partner with organizations that address systemic, community-informed solutions. Most of our clients are in the policy advocacy, legal services and advocacy, public health, journalism, arts and culture, affordable housing, community development, economic justice, environmental justice and conservation, and youth leadership development fields. They are nonprofits, foundations, public agencies, and coalitions.
Below is a partial list of our client partners.
AACI Board of Directors and Executive Leadership Retreat facilitated by Lyons-Newman Consulting in August 2022 at AACI's new program site in East San Jose.
We are based in the San Francisco East Bay and serve clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area including Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Marin County, Tri-Valley, Napa County, Vallejo, San Jose, and Palo Alto. We also serve clients in other parts of California and nationwide.