Thriving Impact: Building Your Nonprofit Group Practice
Take Inititive
Thriving Impact is my one-of-a-kind business coaching program, specifically developed for therapists and wellness professionals who are committed to leaving agency work or solo private practice in order to lead a flourishing nonprofit group practice. This program will not only teach you how to start and staff a nonprofit group practice. It will also teach you how to build it for a long and financially successful future. It will teach you how to lead, how to innovate, and how to evaluate your impact and continue to transform your community.
As a mental health professional with passion and an entrepreneurial, YOU are the determining factor in your success, whether you like it or not. And what you choose to do with the opportunity I’m offering you will directly impact the future of your family, your career, and your long-term financial security.
Maybe that statement scares the crap out of you. Maybe it fills you with hope and longing. Whatever your emotional reaction—fear, excitement, overwhelm—it means that this matters to you. This is a point of no return; whatever you choose to do with this opportunity, that choice will determine what happens next for you.
So what do you want? A revitalized life, a meaningful career, and financial success…or just more of the same?
PROGRAM
I know you’re ready to leave the unsatisfying status quo behind. Let me show you how.
Good Fit
You are a licensed or pre-licensed mental health professional with clinical experience, and you’re looking for increased autonomy and flexibility.
You have an altruistic spirit, and you’re invested in your community, but you are frustrated with the flaws in the existing systems.
You have entrepreneurial energy, a learner mindset, and the resilience and passion to try new things.
Not So Good Fit
You like doing things the hard way; you’d prefer to start a group practice on your own, and you don’t mind slogging through legal, ethical, and organizational issues without guidance, making costly and avoidable mistakes along the way.
You are content with your life the way it is: grueling client hours, limited time off, and feeling constricted by agency norms, while living meager paycheck to meager paycheck and wondering if this is all your education and training is good for.
I know you. You want a better life, and you want your work to make a difference in your community.
So be real with me for a minute. Imagine yourself five years in the future.
Picture your work-life balance, a normal work day, your financial situation, your life satisfaction.
Will you still be longing for more, frustrated by the limitations of your situation?
Will you still be wishing you had done something different?
OR
Are you ready for transformation?
The Journey
Foundations of Nonprofit Success: Understand the nonprofit landscape, including legal structure, mission alignment, and benefits and challenges, and how a nonprofit can impact your community
Strategic Financial Management: Build skills in financial oversight, budgeting, acquiring sustainable and diversified funding, and implementing financial stability metrics.
Legal Compliance, Ethics, and Board Development: Learn how to obtain nonprofit status, follow legal regulations, manage ethical considerations, and recruit and engage board members.
Effective Marketing & Community Engagement: Develop marketing strategies that enhance your nonprofit’s visibility, utilize digital marketing, build partnerships with donors, and engage clients.
Leadership Development & Organizational Culture: Develop enhanced leadership skills tailored to a nonprofit environment, and gain confidence in cultivating a supportive organizational culture.
Building & Managing Effective Teams: Gain strategies for recruiting, training, and retaining a committed and skilled team, including implementing effective hiring processes and establishing professional development and staff feedback systems.
Innovation & Adaptation in Nonprofit Practice: Learn how to leverage innovation, solve problems creatively, utilize technology, and implement new strategies, so you can ensure that your nonprofit remains adaptable to changing community needs.
Impact Evaluation & Continuous Improvement: Develop evaluation tools to measure impact, use data-driven insights to implement strategies for continuous improvement, and scale results while maintaining quality.
FAQ's
What if I’ve never started a business or led a team before?
I know it can seem overwhelming at the start, and that it can feel like a huge risk to launch a group practice. But that is what my coaching program is for! I will walk you through every step, provide individualized support for whatever unique challenges you face, and equip you with all the tools you need to succeed. Without an effective plan, nonprofits can fail—but I am offering you a tried-and-tested plan that’s already been proven to work!
Won’t a nonprofit group practice just turn into another agency, with all the same problems I’m already experiencing?
I know all the drawbacks of agency work: constraining policies, limited income potential, top-down management strategies, uniform treatment approaches that can’t flex to meet individual needs, and acceptance of burnout as the norm. I’m here to show you how to create the exact opposite of that: freedom in decision-making about care and services, financial growth, specialized development, teams led by collaborative decision-making, personalizing care for unique populations, and prioritizing staff well-being. It’s not too good to be true, I promise!
Do nonprofits actually make any money?
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit is a tax-exempt organization formed for purposes like charity, education, or science, to serve the public interest without profiting private individuals. But charity does not equal free services! Your fees can be whatever you want them to be, within what is ethically appropriate. The phrase “without profiting private individuals” means that the organization’s earnings must be reinvested back into its services and operations rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. This means higher salaries for staff, offering therapists qualification for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and having a greater impact on the community!
What if I’m scared to invest?
I get it. It feels like a huge risk. But the bigger financial risk is to just keep doing what you’re doing, earning a salary that barely keeps up with inflation, and burnout yourself out on grueling hours in your therapist chair. Investing in my program is a commitment to yourself, and an investment in your future–and when we go all in, we get the most out of every experience.
What if I don’t have the time?
Everyone is busy. But all you need to do to succeed in this program is dedicate 5-7 hours per week. That’s only one hour a day! And 80% of it is self-paced, so you can do it whenever it works best for you.
Thriving Impact: Building Your Nonprofit Group Practice
It’s a stream-lined, 12-week exclusive program that guides you from concept to operation, and includes:
Eight self-paced modules covering all the content you need to establish, maintain, and grow your nonprofit group practice
2x/weekly online coaching calls, where you can engage in dynamic discussions with enthusiastic peers and receive personalized coaching to refine your strategy and solve any problems that come up
Exclusive private Facebook group, where you can connect with a supportive community of nonprofit leaders for networking, mutual growth, and cheering one another on with each success
What’s In It For Me?
Gain a clear grasp of nonprofit basics, from aligning your vision with actionable goals to receiving your stamp of approval from the IRS
Access to easy-to-use templates for a quick business set-up
Access to a detailed nonprofit success guide covering everything from financial planning and legal compliance to board development
Learn marketing strategies that are effective in today’s digital world, to expand your reach and engage your audience
Stay ahead of the game with modern tools for growth and scaling, which will make continual improvements to your nonprofit easy and effective
Receive no-nonsense guidance on complex topics like EHR systems, hiring practices, pay structures, fee structures, policies and procedures, and training manuals
Bonus: Hiring & Supervision Workshop that includes templates for contracts and supervisory guidelines
Receive individualized support, problem-solving, and accountability from me every step of the way
Clients who pay in full can also dive deeper with two one-on-one coaching sessions that will provide customized solutions to your unique challenges
It’s finally time to try something new. It’s time to become a nonprofit group practice entrepreneur.
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