Strategic Projects
Organizational development - Whether you’re looking to revamp an existing organization, or establish a brand-new entity, Knapp Strategic is able to leverage its extensive experience serving in leadership roles for several different size/type organizations to expertly evaluate every possible facet of your enterprise, while offering recommendations that are suited to your specific needs/goals. Knapp Strategic offers services along the full continuum of organizational development, from preliminary analysis, basic market research, and helping to conceptualize your business model, to instituting a formal governance structure, recruiting board members, and working with ownership/leadership to define/operationalize policies, procedures, and internal controls.
Project Management –Knapp Strategic can help your organization plan for and manage its projects to achieve all of your goals while adhering closely to any specific scope, quality, time and budgetary constraints.
Strategic Planning –Knapp Strategic has the expertise to facilitate a strategic planning process that will equip your organization with the information and tools it will need to effectively define its strategic focus, help build consensus so that you and your leadership team will have a better understanding of the overall direction you’ll want to take, and work through decisions about how to allocate the critical resources needed to execute on your strategy.
Program Development/Implementation –Knapp Strategic has an impressive portfolio of innovative programmatic solutions that it has developed/implemented for its customers. Knapp Strategic thrives on being able to take seemingly disparate activities, partners, and resources, and come up with new and better ways to creatively combine and integrate them into programs that are both effective and sustainable.
Funding/Sustainability planning –Knapp Strategic offers a variety of custom tools and strategies to help your organization prioritize its funding activities and goals, with a focus on diversifying current/prospective revenue streams and identifying new sources of funding to help the organization achieve short and long-term sustainability.
Grant Writing & Proposal Development –With extensive experience researching and developing successful proposals for government, private foundation, corporate foundation, and community foundation grants, Knapp Strategic can handle all of your grant and proposal development needs. From planning and developing project abstracts, to identifying potential funders and funding sources, to developing your proposal, and assisting with your grant implementation and related reporting/compliance, Knapp Strategic is here to help!
Strategic Consulting
Business Consulting -Drawing on its extensive experience with employer engagement and a proven track record of offering solutions to address employer needs, Knapp Strategic understands that what businesses want is someone who can help them either make money or save money, or preferably, someone who can help them do both.
Non-Profit Consulting - Founded by someone who successfully transformed a grant-funded start-up into a fully sustainable membership organization, began a tenure in state government on a limited-term, performance-based contract, and eventually doubled-down and bet on the potential of his cumulative skills and experiences to launch his own consulting business, Chris Knapp, Managing Member of Knapp Strategic has always approached each new career opportunity/challenge with an entrepreneurial, start-up, small business owner, “do-whatever-it-takes-to-succeed” mentality. Now it’s your non-profit that stands to benefit from his 15+ years of professional experience. Whether its facilitating strategic planning, helping to build diverse coalitions in an effort to connect with new partners/resources, or revamping/streamlining operations, Knapp Strategic can provide the expertise you need to help your non-profit achieve its goals while working within your available budget.
Strategic Staffing
Are you thinking of bringing on new staff? What if you could address your needs without the hassle of having to create a new FTE position, interview applicants, on-board the new hire, and pay all of the related salary/benefits? Better yet, what if you could acquire the services of an experienced executive and leader at a fraction of the cost of hiring a permanent professional, and without the long-term commitment?
With over 15+ years of professional experience serving in a variety of leadership roles with different size/type organizations, Knapp Strategic is uniquely positioned to immediately plug in, and contribute to your organization, with minimal need for orientation and/or direction. Knapp Strategic is a perfect strategic staffing solution for a short-term project where it doesn’t make fiscal sense to justify creating a permanent FTE position, as well as for a longer-term retainer situation where you have a specialized need, but not enough work to support a FTE position so its actually more cost effective to just outsource the work to an outside consultant.