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Case studies
CLTR faced the challenge of creating and administering bookkeeping systems, given its particularly thorough approach to accounts and restrictions. We helped CLTR by designing a more efficient accounting workflow, and managing reconciliations on its behalf.
We now have a near real-time understanding of our financial position thanks to Impact Ops. They have built us an automated dashboard that provides informative insights on our fund balances and runway for our various funds. This has freed up our capacity to focus on mission-relevant work. I believe other projects in a similar position would strongly benefit from Impact Ops’ finance support.
Giving What We Can faced the challenge of “spinning out” from its fiscal sponsor. We helped them navigate the process, set up an accounting structure for their new UK and US entities, obtained a visa sponsorship licence for their UK entity, and engaged international employees through an Employer of Record. We also helped establish infrastructure for grantmaking and receiving donations.
It was incredibly helpful having Impact Ops’s support as we spun out of our fiscal sponsor and set up our own entity. We really couldn’t have done this without them.
Our operational audit for the Foresight Institute identified improvements to its application systems for grantmaking, workshops, and seminar groups. Our redesigned grant management system helped free up operational capacity, by consolidating all application and evaluation information in a single database, tailoring views for different users, and automating applicant messages based on their status.
Working with Impact Ops has really streamlined our operations. Their approaches have cut down on unnecessary steps and improved our workflow efficiency.
BlueDot Impact faced the challenge of “spinning out” from its fiscal sponsor. We helped them navigate the process by registering a company limited by guarantee and setting up core infrastructure including an accounting system. We also helped them obtain a 501(c)(3) equivalency determination — so they can receive tax-deductible donations from US grantmakers. This gave BlueDot Impact more autonomy and flexibility in pursuing its mission.
The support and momentum from the Impact Ops team has been really helpful in accelerating our journey towards being an independent legal entity! From developing the initial plan of action to rapidly and cost-effectively implementing it, Impact Ops’ support has helped me free up a lot of headspace and given me ease that things are being done properly.
We conducted a top-to-bottom operational audit and produced a report with recommendations around legal structure, governance, finance, systems, HR, and culture.
The audit report will be invaluable going forward and is exactly what I was hoping for. Overall, I'm very happy with the support Impact Ops has provided. Everyone has been incredibly responsive, professional, and easy to work with. I will definitely recommend you going forward.
We support Longview Philanthropy with finance services, including budgets, payments, and bookkeeping.
We really enjoy working with Eric! He's diligent, excellent at data presentation and clearly motivated to get to the right answer. Really happy to have our dashboards up and running!
We supported FRI with a hiring round which allowed them to hire their first Operations Lead.
The support on the hiring process has been excellent! And I've found all the communication to be clear, prompt, and helpful.
CLTR also faced the challenge of running due diligence on its key donors. We helped by leveraging economies of scale to offer a competitive price for an otherwise expensive (but thorough) web crawler.
The results of the reports are great and the turn around time is great.
We conducted an operational audit for the Foresight Institute, highlighting efficiency and compliance improvements across governance, finance, systems, fundraising, and HR. We collaborated to identify the highest-priority recommendations, which included redesigning their application systems for grantmaking, workshops, and seminar groups.
The comprehensive audit by Impact Ops prompted significant updates in our work. Their ongoing advice has also been crucial in refining these processes. Overall, I feel that we are a much more professional organization today than we were before the audit.
Longview Philanthropy faced the challenge of “spinning out” from its fiscal sponsor. We scoped and recommended an HR platform and expense management system for both its UK and US entities. We also recommended staff benefits packages for its US entity, which faced several challenges when getting quotes — including its relatively low headcount, remote workforce, and lack of independent financial statements. This support allowed Longview Philanthropy to focus its in-house operational resources towards more mission-relevant areas, like grantmaking and events.
The support Impact Ops has provided has been seamless and incredibly helpful.
Condor faced the challenge of “spinning out” from its fiscal sponsor. We helped them navigate the process by registering a 501(c)(3) in the US. We then put the new entity through an expenditure responsibility procedure and set up a US bank account. This allowed the Condor team to receive a grant from a key donor through this new entity — all within 2 months of them engaging us for support. We set up an employer of record (EOR) to employ staff based outside the US and, finally, initiated a risk assessment to help the team identify and mitigate key risks associated with their new structure.
The setting up of the nonprofit in the US, creation of means for us to receive the funds that allowed the Camp to happen, as well as financial support we have received were excellent and priceless. The transparency, timeliness, and outstanding efficiency to which things get solved with Impact Ops is amazing.
As a Swedish foundation, Impact Academy faced the challenge of hiring employees in the UK. We helped them overcome this challenge by registering a new UK entity, opening a bank account, setting up an HR platform, and recommending and implementing insurance schemes. This allowed Impact Academy to hire UK staff and get them on payroll.
It is a delight to interact with you and I think you make it easy for us to be transparent with where we are lacking, while you still seem professional and keep us to high standards.
Arkose aims to reduce risks from advanced AI through field-building activities.
Arkose has grand ambitions for AI safety field-building, but had just one full-time staff member. We helped Arkose hire an Operations Lead by collaborating to design assessments and mark schemes, and communicating with candidates throughout the process. The Operations Lead has been able to take on a range of responsibilities, including surveys, calls, and supportive programs for researchers interested in contributing to AI safety.
Would recommend (and have already recommended) — this was great. It was awesome how fast this whole thing happened, and how well-organized it was and smooth and adaptive to my needs!
We supported FRI with a hiring round which allowed them to hire their first Operations Lead.
Sara is such a pro. She was always organized and prepared and made the entire process as painless for us as possible. We are also very happy with the ultimate hire.
As Impact Academy scaled it looked to develop its in-house operational capacity. We supported the organization with a hiring round for an Operations Specialist and helped the team secure their first operations hire.
Sara is a delight to work with. She’s extremely responsive and always over-delivers. I have very much appreciated Sara taking the time to provide tips and best practices derived from her experience, have highly benefited from it. Sara has been the driving force in our hiring efforts for an ops specialist, anticipating every aspect of the process. Having someone more experienced taking the lead was a great learning experience.
METR works on assessing whether cutting-edge AI systems could pose catastrophic risks to society.
We support METR with financial services including budgets and bookkeeping.
I'm a big fan of Impact Ops' professionalism. They are efficient in their communications and work, and I generally trust that they will not be wasting my time and I will have a clear sense of their value-add.
We helped Arcadia Impact successfully register an entity in the UK.
As a small team, we have benefitted massively from getting advice and support on charity registration and other operations tasks.
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We’ve worked at high-impact nonprofits. And we want to use what we’ve learned to help other high-impact projects grow and thrive.
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