Not-for-profits (NFPs)

Beacon Strategies worked in partnership with Epilepsy Smart Australia to conduct a National Consumer Journey Mapping project that would help their organisation provide better support to people with epilepsy.

We are supporting Empower Autism to develop a Peer Mentoring Program Risk and Oversight Framework to guide the safe and effective delivery of an innovative mentoring program. Empower is committed to the delivery of high-quality, effective services that improve the health and well-being of autistic people and those who care for them.

We were engaged by Epilepsy Smart Australia to assess the overall effectiveness of the Peer Support Program Pilot, identify if the program has achieved its intended goals, objectives and outcomes and provide recommendations that inform future program planning decisions.

Beacon Strategies completed a Strategic Planning Project with Open Futures in February 2023. The strategic planning project for Open Futures, a well-regarded NDIS provider, aimed to provide clarity and focus on the organisation's future direction, service offerings, and long-term strategic priorities amid its significant growth.

We empower not-for-profit organisations like Epilepsy Queensland to build their in-house evaluation competence, facilitating greater impact and transparency in the social purpose sector. Through a facilitated and collaborative approach, we provided foundational knowledge in program design and evaluation, defining program logic, and developing robust evaluation frameworks.

In the not-for-profit sector, effective co-design is not only a concept but a strategic approach that can significantly enhance service delivery and impact. The Co-design Toolkit from Western Australia, published in 2017, has proven to be an invaluable resource for not-for-profits.

This blog unpacks the common features of co-design according to leading experts, including its broad applicability, inclusive participation, equal decision-making, active engagement, and focus on implementation.

How do you demonstrate your impact to stakeholders or the community? A few of these have helped us in the past: Define Clear Objectives and Goals; Collect Data; Establish KPIs or OKRs; Use Data Visualisation; Share Success Stories; Host events. Read more about how these can help you share the amazing work you do.

Suicide prevention affects us all. The projects we have worked on alongside our clients are part of the driving force behind transformative change toward suicide prevention efforts in Australia. Here is a summary of a few different projects we have worked on.

Impact measurement is an intriguing concept that many not-for-profit organisations are contemplating. While there's no universally accepted approach, it's worth examining how different organisations have experimented with this concept, both in the present and the past.