Nonprofit and Public Sectors

Like for-profit clients, nonprofit and public sector clients use Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) to seize opportunities and better achieve their objectives.

Current clients:

GLG nonprofit and public sector projects span healthcare, disaster relief, international development, and nonprofit effectiveness.

How GLG helps:

Nonprofit and public sector clients use GLG in several ways.

• Grants - Foundations can collaborate with GLG to assess nonprofit and public sector initiatives and applicants. They can also provide successful grantees with access to GLG to enable superior implementation of funded initiatives.
• New Circumstances - Clients in the nonprofit and public sectors often face rapidly changing environments. Events can be triggered by natural disasters, or by human factors, such as changing political leaders or donor demands. Clients use GLG to obtain the expertise they need to adapt.
• Local Knowledge - Many nonprofit and public sector clients need to stay current on developments across the globe. Clients use GLG for on-the-ground insights from experts in far-flung locations.
• Private Sector Best Practices - Nonprofit and public sector clients tap the vast GLG network of private-sector experts to obtain best practices and crucial insights.

Unique advantages:

Gerson Lehrman Group helps nonprofit and public sector clients find suitable experts for their research efforts; appropriately engage experts through a variety of methods; and manage the use and ongoing relationships with experts.

Find:

• GLG's organization of 170+ Council Recruiters and Managers have used proprietary tools to identify, contact and evangelize the benefits of the GLG Councils to more than two million specialized experts. Clients with urgent requirements can request accelerated recruiting of particular expert populations or individuals.
• Once enrolled in the GLG Councils, experts are categorized within unique taxonomies, with dynamic questionnaires canvassing their experience with and knowledge of niche subjects. This continuous profiling enables GLG to provide finance professionals with suitable and appropriate experts, even on short notice.
• GLG assesses Council Member quality through a proprietary GLG Council Rank^SM algorithm. By enabling over ten thousand consulting transactions each month, GLG has rich data on the demonstrated value of experts.

Engage:

• Nonprofit and public sector clients should be able to focus on their missions, and do not have time to manage contracts and negotiate consulting fees for dozens of independent experts and small consulting firms. GLG puts industry-standard contracting protocols in place before every interaction. Pre-set hourly rates and integrated payment procedures within GLG work together seamlessly, reducing strain on the organization's finance and legal professionals.
• Nonprofit and public sector clients vary widely in how they want to engage experts. Program officers may desire a series of telephone consultations. Nonprofit Executive Directors may need custom written reports. Development Officers may need fast-turnaround surveys of key constituents. Nonprofit and public sector clients use these solutions and others (including in-person meetings, events, and travel programs) to tap the expertise in the GLG Councils.

Manage:

• GLG provides easy-to-use Web-based software for nonprofit and public sector clients to rate, tag, share, and search the expert contacts made during ongoing client service, business development, and knowledge development. This tool eliminates the need to update and share addresses and contact information, while enabling them to build their lists of contacts as organization-wide assets.
• For accounting staff seeking to allocate research costs to specific departments, initiatives, and individuals GLG provides assistance to track usage and manage spending.

To learn more about Gerson Lehrman Group's services for nonprofit and public sector clients, contact: Caroline Novogrod, Research Manager, at cnovogrod@glgroup.com.