Why work with HNL Consulting?
HNL Consulting adds value to its clients by delivering effective and contextually responsive services and programs that meet the following standards:

Comprehensive services:
While narrowly-defined interventions can work, HNL’s most effective capacity-building and organizational transformation activities offer some degree of “one-stop shopping” in which clients can access a range of assessment services, technical assistance, financing advice, and other kinds of support.

Customized services:
HNL Consulting’s services are custom tailored to the type of organization, its community environment, and its place in the “organizational life cycle” (young, start-up nonprofits are likely to have needs very different from more-established organizations).

Competence-based solutions:
Our services are:
(a) offered by well-trained providers (both HNL Consultants and expert service suppliers) and
(b) requested by knowledgeable, sophisticated “consumers” (nonprofit managers and board members).

Timely:
Our interventions happen in the balanced space between action taken too slowly to be relevant (often because of funder delays in acting on funding applications) and action performed too quickly to allow the flowering of an intervention in a complex context.

Peer-connected:
Our organizational capacity building initiatives provide opportunities for our clients for peer-to-peer networking, shared learning, mentoring, and information sharing.

Assessment/Evidence-based:
Our interventions begin with a thorough assessment of the needs and resources of the organization and the environment in which it operates, which in turn drives the types of capacity-building or organizational transformation services provided.

Readiness-based:
HNL Consulting’s transformation approach is rooted on the understanding that the interventions occur when the organization or “client” is ready to receive this specialized kind of service (e.g., the nonprofit is not in the midst of a major crisis that would make it unable to benefit from the intervention at that time).

Contextualized: Our technical support is always considered in the larger context of other strengthening services a client is receiving, other activities of the funders, and other elements of the current community environment. This also implies that we work with the organization/client cognizant of the fact that they must deliver results on programmes so, we do not let them lose focus on programme delivery

Knowledge transfer: Cognizant of the fact that most consultants would want to deliver a service to clients without leaving them able to do it on their own the next time round, HNL provides on-the-job knowledge transfer for staff attached to the consultants during the consulting process.