Overworked executive directors, burned-out staff, and boards constantly struggling to keep momentum. These are the conditions of working in a traditional nonprofit that we know all too well. Grow Your Good was founded in 2021 to help Western North Carolina nonprofits with grant services before realizing that there were a whole lot of other unmet needs. Community-led organizations doing the real work of connecting with directly impacted people struggled to stay afloat while larger capacity organizations were able to seize opportunity after opportunity. More frustrating still was the fact that these larger capacity organizations, who already had access to more assets and resources, were the only organizations with the means to hire services like ours.  

 

That’s when we knew we had to do things differently.

 

At Grow Your Good, we’re focused on supporting the nonprofits, grassroots organizations, and small businesses who are led by the communities they serve. We believe shared knowledge is vital to strong communities so we offer a range of organizational services alongside educational consulting to make sure that you have the knowledge you need to make your project a success.

 

But we don’t just provide traditional advice. We’ve seen the ways that the nonprofit industrial complex can do as much harm as good. Burned out workers, high turnover, low pay, and unhealthy work environments are all the result of traditional hierarchical, capitalistic workplace standards. Higher capacity organizations, despite having more money and support, are often no exception, proving that this is not a simply of problem of having resources. It’s a problem of what we’re building and what tools we’re using to build it.

 

Instead of giving you advice that we know will lead you down that road, we focus on encouraging community connection, healthy communication, and more inclusive workspaces.  And more importantly, we help you figure out how to do it. Our development services help you build your capacity, finances, and team while our storytelling services connect the community to your organization and mission.

 

We know what you’re thinking: “I love that but we can’t afford it.”

 

At Grow Your Good, we’re passionate about creating better communities and we can’t create that kind of change if our services are out of price range. If you have a project you’re passionate about, don’t let cost stop you from reaching out. We offer options to make sure that everyone can grow their good including payment plans, scalable service packages, and sliding-scale pricing for qualifying community-led organizations.