Your roles
3 filled-
Finance & Compliance -
People Ops - You Programme Lead
We do the ops.
You do the good.
Growing nonprofits hit the same operational walls. We join yours as your operations team for Finance, Legal, Tech and People. You get experienced specialists who adapt to your mission and culture, our AI and proven patterns, and a lot more time for impact.
Adopted patterns
Expense policy Hiring process Meeting governance Role structure
Legal & Compliance
- ANBI registration
- GDPR register
- Insurance
- Annual report
Finance
Up to date- Payroll ran
- Bookkeeping
We run operations for these nonprofits.
Why making impact needs to change
The world is on fire
Nonprofits address sizable, solvable, and sorely neglected causes. Operations should multiply impact, not distract.
Talent deserves better
Transparency by default, high autonomy, data driven, agile operations. The best expect it... easier said than done.
Funders expect results
They expect operational maturity, continuous reporting, and proof of your counterfactual impact.
AI rewrites the rules
The world looked different a few months ago. Weaving AI into your ops multiplies your human potential.
“Operations management in high-impact nonprofits is one of the most impactful career paths available — yet one of the most neglected.”
Try it yourself
Tools and guides from running nonprofit operations, shared for free.
Ops health check
Rate your finance, legal, people and tech in ten minutes and see what to fix first.
Start the checkFingerprint
Type any vendor's domain and see who owns it and whose laws apply.
Scan a vendorRole pattern catalog
Role definitions from other nonprofits. Copy one and adapt it.
Browse the catalogOps patterns
Policies, processes and how-tos for finance, legal, people and tech. Copy one and adapt it.
Browse the patternsWe're not consultants, we're part of your team
Align values
We're opinionated about operations. We believe in radical role clarity, high autonomy, trust by default, and zero organizational politics. Our patterns work for mission-driven, self-managing, data-driven organizations. If that fits you, we'll work well together.
Connect tools
We setup and connect to your Asana, Google Workspace, and Slack. Setup takes days, not months. We handle the wiring. You don't need to learn new tools.
See clearly
The Moral Fabric app becomes your operational dashboard. Every role and who fills it. Budgets and actual spend. Contracts and where they deviate from proven templates. Tools and which roles they serve. One view, complete clarity.
Choose scope
Pick the operational domains you want us to run: Finance, Legal, HR, IT, or all of them. Each domain is a role in your organization with clear accountabilities. Staffed by our team, (y)our suppliers, your team, visible in the app.
Adopt patterns
We introduce our way of working step by step. Role structures, then processes, then policies, then templates. We migrate what you have and improve it. Each pattern is tested across organizations, not invented for yours.
Evolve together
You stay in control. Reassign any role to an internal team member when you're ready, or hand us more. The structure evolves with your organization. And our patterns evolve for all our customers based on your feedback.
Everything but the purpose
We bring the ops team, the tools and the patterns. You bring the people and the purpose.
Legal & Compliance
Entity setupANBI registrationInsurance managementContract templatesGDPR compliance
Finance & Reporting
BookkeepingOrg forecastingProject budgetingAnnual reports (RJ650) Cash flow forecasting
People & Culture
PayrollATS setupOnboardingHR Policies360 Feedback Holacracy implementationRecruitment as a serviceL&D
Strategy & Execution
Hierarchy of PurposeOKR implementationProject managementMeeting governance Theory of Change writingReporting dashboards
Tech & Tools
Tool stack setupNonprofit discountsHardware procurementAI literacy training Security testingWebsite building
Fundraising & CRM
CRM setup Grant writingImpact reportingFundraising events
Office Management
Office Supplies & Groceries FurnitureInternetFacility management
Event Support
RegistrationVenue & logisticsBudgeting
Volunteer Coordination
OnboardingShift planningCommunications
Legal & Compliance
Entity setupANBI registrationInsurance managementContract templatesGDPR compliance
Finance & Reporting
BookkeepingOrg forecastingProject budgetingAnnual reports (RJ650) Cash flow forecasting
People & Culture
PayrollATS setupOnboardingHR Policies360 Feedback Holacracy implementationRecruitment as a serviceL&D
Strategy & Execution
Hierarchy of PurposeOKR implementationProject managementMeeting governance Theory of Change writingReporting dashboards
Tech & Tools
Tool stack setupNonprofit discountsHardware procurementAI literacy training Security testingWebsite building
Fundraising & CRM
CRM setup Grant writingImpact reportingFundraising events
Office Management
Office Supplies & Groceries FurnitureInternetFacility management
Event Support
RegistrationVenue & logisticsBudgeting
Volunteer Coordination
OnboardingShift planningCommunications
Teal colored areas we already support. Gray we're still working on.
A world where every nonprofit runs like the best
Operational excellence shouldn't be a luxury for nonprofits that can afford a COO.
Who we are
The people, partners, tools and customers that weave the fabric
We started inside The School for Moral Ambition and grew into a team covering product, operations, people, finance and tech.
We engage with these partners on your behalf, and of course you can too where it's relevant for you.
We run operations for these nonprofits. Happy to talk about yours.
Where it all comes together
Our app weaves your tools, roles, suppliers, patterns and policies together
Your personal dashboard with teams, roles, strengths, and projects at a glance