Strategy Advisory for NFPs and Social Enterprises

Foundstone is a strategy advisory not-for-profits and social enterprises across a range of sectors from aged care to road safety.

Enabling NFPs and Social Enterprises to better understand communities through our human-centred open strategy approach.

NFPs and Social Enterprises benefit from using human-centred design principles to identify opportunities and gaps to maximise social impact.

Open Strategy
for NFPs

Our unique approach aligns teams and creates buy-in, enabling better execution of strategies and which naturally grows new revenue streams.

Humanising strategy

We start by understanding what people are seeing, thinking, feeling, doing, and saying, so that we can identify real everyday problems and opportunities faced by your clients and employees, to be solved.

How does
this work?

We have targeted conversations with clients, communities, partners and staff. This will help us gain greater clarity and qualitative insights to make strategy choices that will better shape your plans and execution.

We educate, develop and coach teams on strategy mindsets & delivery to enable lasting results.

Our services

Market & Customer Insights

Get unique market and insights about the community to make the right strategy choices.

Strategy

We include external perspectives, from customers, partners and front-line staff so you can make the best strategy choices for social impact.

Planning

We work with leadership teams to develop practical plans that target specific ways to deliver on key parts of the strategy.

Execution

We work with executives and management to drive execution of the overall strategy and accountability of specific plans.

Outcomes we deliver
Problems we solve

Retain and grow your business in 2023
De-risk your business model
Increase team commitment and buy-in to deliver

Andrew Bird | Director & Principal

With knowledge, learnings and experience from over 20 years, Andrew brings real-life insights from working with various Healthcare clients including BUPA, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Carers QLD, Lex Medicus and Amber Community.

Andrew is an expert strategy advisor across the Healthcare sector, delivering outcomes with clients through a unique Open Strategy & Human-Centred Design approach.

The Foundstone strategy approach helped grow a 300% increase in opportunities and pipeline for the organisation. This helped launch new service lines, resulting in new revenue and partnerships.

Bernadette Nugent – CEO of Amber Community (RTSSV)

View more of our work in the clients section

Download our NFP Strategy Guide

Learn how to use design-thinking principles to maximise social impact and increase sustainability as a NFP.

The conventional approach to strategy is starting to lose its impact.

That’s why we don’t rely on a rigid framework.
We help clients approach strategy from the outside, looking in.

Enquire about a Strategy Consultation