Our Values
We are guided in our work by our core values.
Integrity
We approach every interaction with our clients with an unwavering commitment to their best interest. We build trust by being approachable, accessible, and transparent about our systems, processes, and recommendations.
Flexibility
We are responsive, adaptive, and open to change as we explore creative strategies to meet our clients’ needs.
Respect
We recognize, understand, and appreciate the different strengths that each of us brings to the table. We build solid and genuine relationships with our clients by approaching challenging situations with humility, empathy and kindness. We listen with compassion and respond with sensitivity.
Innovation
We constantly strive to find better ways to serve our clients. Our commitment to continuous learning catalyzes out-of-the-box solutions to complex challenges.
Positivity
We believe that challenging situations can be opportunities for growth. Our strengths-based approach helps our clients recognize and act upon their assets.
Inclusion
At every opportunity, we seek to include all voices, consider multiple perspectives, and break down systemic barriers to equitable outcomes.
Collaboration
Our clients are our partners with whom we have shared goals. This approach leverages our collective knowledge, skills, and creativity, as well as our diverse perspectives – leading to organizational success.
About SCC
Founded in 2009, SCC is a team of experienced professionals who bring deep expertise, strong assessment and analytic skills, and operational know-how to mission-driven organizations to serve and strengthen our communities. As an EOS-run firm, we lead from a place of competence and passion for the nonprofit sector.
Across the myriad of challenges faced by nonprofits today, SCC brings a calm, steadfast, and unwavering commitment to the best possible outcome for your community, your people, and your organization.
What Sets Us Apart
Our approachable, accessible systems deliver practical solutions for your needs—from interim leadership and strategic planning to fundraising, evaluation, and board development. As true partners, we work alongside you to stabilize your organization and build the strong foundation needed for growth and lasting community impact.
Our team has seen—and solved—it all. Whether you’re planning ahead or managing urgent challenges, we collaborate with you to create customized, evidence-based solutions tailored to your goals. With deep experience across a wide range of focus areas, we assemble the right team for your needs and build long-term partnerships with organizations of all sizes working for positive change across the Midwest and beyond.
Our Vision
Our vision is to create a network of resilient, mission-driven organizations that, through partnership with SCC, have systems, structures, and resources that maximize community impact.
Our Mission
We partner with organizations dedicated to positive change, providing capacity, guidance and strategy that solve short-term challenges and create new paths for long-term growth and success.
We believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion.
We recognize that mission driven organizations face critical challenges - systemic racism, disparities in access to opportunities and the inequitable distribution of resources.
We are all in different places on the journey toward greater diversity, equity, and inclusion, and may even be on different paths. These differences create opportunities for us to learn from each other, moving us closer to an equitable community.
We engage with our clients in an intentional effort to break down racism, both immediate and systemic barriers, and to create and sustain equitable outcomes.
We recognize that BIPOC and people with marginalized identities are asked to take on the struggle for social justice in ways that are unfair. We believe that those with dominant identities must commit to shouldering a disproportionate share of this work.
We acknowledge, encourage, and prioritize a continual reexamination of our policies, practices, behaviors, and attitudes – both within SCC and within our clients’ organizations.
Our commitment to diversity, equity & inclusion.
