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We are looking to create sustainable and positive change across different sectors across the world. We engage directly with partner companies and their leadership to understand problems and provide pathways to sustainable solutions. Our hands-on approach has allowed us to be in the room with our clients, working hand in hand listening, strategizing, and short and long-term planning for lasting outcomes within each community. We look forward to working with you!

Br’Island is a leader in organizational effectiveness, strategic change and executional excellence. By partnering with organizations across various sectors (education, public service, social impact, and more), our team works hand-in-hand with clients to gain a deep understanding of their needs and then delivery on those needs. We specialize in a host of services, including equity consulting, strategic advocacy and advocacy research, organizational sustainability solution-mapping, and financial and operational framework-building. We pride ourselves on providing breakthrough thinking as a means to transformational change. Check out out Our Impact below to learn more about some of our past projects!

We offer solutions, support, and resources to promote the achievement of equity goals and intended institutional culture in nonprofit,governmental and for-profit organizations, or units within the organization.

We facilitate framework-building by infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the enterprise, including equity literacy training and facilitation; independent climate audits; sustainability planning and retreats; specific program development and implementation.

Provide Strategic Advocacy: facilitate visioning for client understanding of viable strategic community, government, and other stakeholder dynamics; support strategic development of client capacity and scale; facilitate project development.

Goal: To provide sustainable strategies for co-creating productive, internal, and external equity-based collaborations for our clients.

“Data has a heartbeat,” – translate research and policy into practice.

Goal: To co-create research projects that produce tangible, implementable results.

We provide strategies for grant compliance, audits, and management; human resource management, and financial management including accounting system implementation, accounts receivable and accounts payable management.

We also facilitate development and implementation of strategies for identifying and securing talent/leadership necessary to carry out a sustainable commitment to the vision, objectives, and culture of institutional ecosystems. We conduct audits to analyze and fuel planning processes for developing sustained commitment to the vision, objectives, and culture of institutional ecosystems.

We offer solutions, support, and resources to promote the achievement of equity goals and intended institutional culture in nonprofit,governmental and for-profit organizations, or units within the organization.

We facilitate framework-building by infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the enterprise, including equity literacy training and facilitation; independent climate audits; sustainability planning and retreats; specific program development and implementation.

our impact

Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK)

The Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (TASK) initiated a process to identify a qualified firm to guide and execute a strategic planning process with involving both its Board of Trustees and staff to produce a three-to- five-year strategic plan.

TASK sought out The Br'Island Group as it demonstrates strong understanding of nonprofit structure and operations and has proven experience with nonprofit strategic planning. In making its selection, TASK identified TBG as having experience in working with clients that serve diverse low-income populations and a track-record of advising charities regarding how best to scale their impact and inspiring them to think innovatively will be preferred.
The primary deliverable for this engagement was a written.

The primary deliverable for this engagement was a written organizational strategic plan document that presents the planning process, research, analysis, opportunities, threats, and strategies along with an implementation plan that will guide TASK activities for the next three to five years.

This proposal was submitted jointly by Br’Island Group and Princeton Partners in response to TASK’s RFP for strategic planning services. The principles of the two organizations are committed to excellence in all aspects of their work and have developed reputations for client-centered approaches to support the growth and advance the mission of the organizations with which they have worked.

League of Women Voters of NJ

In working with The Br’Island Group, the League intended to re-examine the assumptions and strategies underlying its prior plan, and to develop an expanded vision for the future that considers the organization’s growth, the political climate, and the potential for greater impact. The League confronts a range of key issues as it considers its next strategic plan. These include: expanding and sharpening efforts to empower voters and defend democracy in New Jersey; strengthening governance and leadership; further operationalizing the organization’s commitment to DEI; addressing the intergenerational issues faced by the League; further expanding the network of local chapters in New Jersey to include Newark, Trenton, and other cities; considering new strategic partnerships to promote shared goals; strengthening the League’s identity and brand in New Jersey; improving the League’s voter registration and GOTV efforts; growing the League’s membership; generating increased financial support – potentially including a capital campaign; and more broadly, fostering the development of innovative ideas and creative new approaches that will accelerate the advancement of the League’s mission and vision.

The Br’Island Group team brought significant expertise to this engagement, including proven experience with nonprofit strategic planning, abilities to conduct effective stakeholder interviews, the depth of our knowledge of New Jersey’s political process and structure, and  familiarity with nonpartisan political organizations – as well as a commitment to rigorous research and evidence-based recommendations. The expertise in equity and diversity issues, as well as in organizational advancement, including communications and fundraising advanced the partnerships and mission through the strategic planning process.

Bowie State University

Grant Thornton Public Sector LLC (Grant Thornton), along with a representative from The Br’Island Group and others responded to the Bowie State University (BSU or the University) TORP for an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Crisis Management (CM) Plan.

This group has extensive experience in the higher education sector as it relates to ERM and CM, coupled with a deep commitment to serving this industry. They understood how difficult it can sometimes be to introduce change in higher education institutions and have used industry experience to develop effective change management techniques. The dedication to Higher Education and Not-for-Profit Practice has more than 500 personnel focused on serving 900 preeminent organizations. Grant Thornton has a proven track record of service and success at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) where they assisted the development of its ERM plan and the University System of Maryland (USM) with the development of their Crisis Management plan. This experience was leveraged to provide value-added recommendations to BSU. Additionally, the group provided a proven methodology for higher education institutions for designing, implementing and refining ERM and CM programs, a commitment to diversity, inclusion and HBCU recruiting, personalized attention and client service and a talented, multi-dimensional service team.

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