What if communities could reinvent our institutions?
At HNC we’re working to solve the systemic issues that keep the social sector from being as impactful as it should be. We partner with both nonprofits and funders to build novel solutions to the most significant barriers they face. Then we build systems, tools, and trainings to make those solutions widely available throughout the sector.
HNC’s Purpose
HNC is a pathway for community-driven leaders to build high quality, equitable, sustainable institutions.
We believe the most innovative solutions to society’s deepest challenges rise from within the communities who directly experience them, and the community leaders who drive these innovations are the most effective and profound force for creating a more just, equitable, and humane society.
The nonprofit ecosystem is riddled with complexities and systemic barriers that can hold community organizations back. Our purpose as an organization is to build a clear comprehensive pathway for community leaders to grow their work. Our programs are designed in close collaboration with the leaders we serve to provide the infrastructure, systems, and leadership support that the nonprofit system is lacking, empowering them to build effective, equitable organizations, and reach their fullest potential.
Everything we do, we do with communities—not for them.
HNCs Programs
For Nonprofits
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Infrastructure & Leader Support (ILS)
Fiscal sponsorship, personalized systems and support to take the guesswork out of running an organization.
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Boot Camp
A short-duration intensive training to help nonprofit leaders take their organizations to the next level.
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Institute
Bite-sized access to HNC tools and trainings when our primary programs aren’t exactly the right fit
For Funders
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Ecosystem Partners
An extremely low-lift collaborative platform to help funders find and support values-aligned grantees.
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Infrastructure & Leader Support (ILS)
We know how frustrating it is when inefficient or ineffective systems feel like they’re holding an organization back. They cost time, diminish resources, and create unnecessary stress for leaders and staff. ILS makes fiscal sponsorship, operations and infrastructure easy, so orgs can focus on what really matters.
"Our partnership with HNC transcends the typical fiscal sponsor relationship. HNC helped to propel our work and their support yielded results immediately.”
— Cory Montalvo, Executive Director, YEBO
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Boot Camp
Boot Camp is a short-duration transformative experience for EDs and leaders of community-focused nonprofits. We use a comprehensive, customized approach to help leaders build, implement and integrate the tools they need to fundamentally transform their organizations and achieve the goals that matter most.
"The tools and trackers we developed as part of Boot Camp are now part of our weekly team structures, creating momentum to drive both our impact and income.”
— Huma Babak Ebadi, Executive Director, MYPI
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Institute
HNC Institute provides bite-sized and bespoke access to our core training concepts, tools and strategies when our primary programs aren’t exactly the right fit for an organization. We help leaders set concrete goals and zero in on what forms of support will be the best fit for their organizations.
“The community of collaboration and support we experience as Collective Leaders is unlike any other. It is clear at the end of each Collective Gathering that every leader benefited in some way (and most often multiple ways).”
— Jenn White, Co-Executive Director, We Are FARMily
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Ecosystem Partners
Ecosystem Partners is an extremely low-lift funder to nonprofit relationship-building platform. It’s designed to help foundations, philanthropic organizations, and family offices find and support community nonprofits who are truly aligned with the values and impact they believe in.
Our Vision
Youth, families, and communities transform our systems & institutions to create a more equitable society.
Our Values
Humane
We focus our efforts on the human beings in front of us, and we’re careful to not lose sight of people’s humanity in favor of systems, process, or tradition.
Liberatory
We dismantle systems of oppression and replace them with systems that affirm our humanity.
Community-driven
We create solutions with (not for) communities based on what they really need.
Sustainable
We think in terms of decades, not years, and ensure that our people and our impact live long, meaningful lives.