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CASE STUDIES:
Our work, in action
From Doing it all
to doing what matters
CLIENT: Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
When Reverend Dr. LaKeisha Cook fully stepped into the Executive Director role at the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy in 2024, she inherited a proud legacy of faith-based advocacy and a team committed to justice in Virginia. She also inherited a quieter, harder truth. Staff were stretched thin, and programs had multiplied over the years without anyone asking whether each one was still essential to the work.
Learn how Strategic Disruption facilitated the design of an organizational Theory of Change which shifted how the organization plans, partners, and protects its capacity. Click here to read the full story.
Strengthening revenue, leadership, and capacity
Pretty Purposed had the culturally relevant programming, the community trust, and the track record to demonstrate impact. What it didn't have was an engine built to sustain any of it. Grant funding for this Petersburg-based nonprofit ran on the knowledge of a small handful of people in a funding landscape that keeps getting less forgiving. SDC partnered with Pretty Purposed to build the systems and fundraising culture, work that helped drive a 60% increase from a returning funder, $40,000 from new ones, and a major public funding award that more than tripled year over year. Read how they built a fundraising engine strong enough to match their impact.
beyond the film :
The "Daughters" impact campaign
CLIENT: Girls For A Change
A moving portrait of empathy and forgiveness, Daughters traces an eight-year documentary journey by filmmaker Natalie Rae and social change advocate Angela Patton. The award winning film launched an impact campaign to expand awareness, organize greater support for Black girls impacted by their fathers' incarceration, and advocate for policy changes in the criminal legal system. Strategic Disruption was hired to support the development of the impact campaign strategy.
gos funding: The Impact of five years of grantmaking
CLIENT: Richmond Memorial Health Foundation
Richmond Memorial Health Foundation provided five years of general operating support to nonprofits working to advance health equity in Metro Richmond. Before embarking on a new strategic journey, the Foundation needed to hear from grantees about what made their funding model work, and where it fell short. This commitment to learn from its own grantmaking required an outside expert to independently evaluate the program. Learn how SDC earned the trust and candor of grantees, surfacing the nuanced insights that shaped the Foundation's new grantmaking framework and advanced broader conversations in philanthropy about how to effectively support health and racial equity.
Strategic Planning for
Organizational Overhaul
CLIENT: Enduring Spaces
A year into her tenure as Executive Director of Enduring Spaces, Daveida Murphy Hassan wasn't handed a routine planning project. She was charged with a full organizational overhaul: new name, new brand, new business model, new partnerships, and an operational reset that touched everything from fundraising to program delivery. The rebrand could happen on a designer's timeline. Earning it from the community Enduring Spaces serves could not. Here's how a strategic plan became the difference between a new name and a new foundation.
