Our Services
Our core clients are nonprofit organizations navigating constrained funding and operational environments. We help them survive and thrive by connecting them with funding sources, building holistic risk mitigation strategies, and fostering peer alliances, both in the U.S. and abroad. This support makes our clients more effective partners for their governments, the private sector, foundations, and other donors and collaborators.
CSS supports nonprofit organizations in several ways:
Briefings on Closing Civic Space: Facilitated briefings and interactive sessions that compare current pressures on civil society in the U.S. with global patterns and response strategies. These engagements help leaders interpret risk signals, understand operating constraints, and identify practical response options.
Capacity Assessments & Risk-Mitigation Training: Customized diagnostic and advisory engagements that examine organizational vulnerabilities, operating risks, and resilience gaps. Methods include vulnerability and ecosystem assessments, scenario exercises, and strategic risk reviews. Engagements may lead to action plans across financial viability, communications strategy, staff wellbeing, coalition development, and digital and physical security, with follow-on advisory support available.
Applied Learning and Peer Exchange Workshops: Facilitated, practice-based learning engagements using real scenarios and structured exercises, delivered through cohort workshops and cross-organization exchanges. Flagship topics include operating under pressure, financial readiness, ecosystem positioning, multi-scenario planning, regulatory risk, strategic communications, and coalition building.
Resource Diversification: Advising on strategies to expand funding streams such as membership campaigns, crowdfunding, fee for service, and courting untapped donors; and connecting with networks, intermediary support, and financial resources.
In January 2026, CSS led a seminar at the UConn School of Public Policy comparing the current U.S. risk environment to overseas contexts.
"Thank you for such timely, relevant, insightful, and practically valuable presentations. The workshop-format design was especially effective in raising awareness of the current environment while grounding the discussion in real-world strategies and practical challenges." -- Prof. Bok Gyo Jeong
