Dear Partners and Colleagues:
When I launched Mission Throttle in 2009, I set out to accelerate community benefit through philanthropic capital, innovation and culture change. In the decade since the company’s formation, Mission Throttle has evolved from a startup, dedicated to supporting innovative fundraising tools and impact investing, to that and more. In 2013, Susan Gordon joined Mission Throttle to grow the advisory practice from scratch, recruiting a group of talented consultants, intending to validate the strategic service offering to promote positive change in the foundation and mission-driven communities. Originally, we imagined Advisory would add to the investable pipeline for impact investments into social enterprises. In the end, the team engaged with over 40 mission-driven organizations to create sustainability, innovation, earned revenue and ultimately, culture change.
Over the past five years, Advisory has provided exemplary outcomes for dozens of foundation, philanthropic and mission-driven organizations. However, we continue to experience the market dissonance between the critical need for capacity building support, and the limited resources available to sustain these services. Over the past few months, we continue to reflect on this reality.
We concluded the time has come for Mission Throttle to return to its roots, while celebrating Susan and our team’s success. As a result, as of June 30, the Advisory practice, under Susan’s supervision, will spin-off from Mission Throttle to allow her the capacity to thoughtfully consider future next steps.Mission Throttle, under my direction, will continue to search for platforms, tools and solutions to accelerate philanthropic innovation and the impact investing ecosystem going forward. We hope to engage with you going forward.
I am amazed at what our team has achieved as evidenced in our 2018 Impact Report. The cultural impact on our clients, and consequently the community, has set a high bar for others working to bring sustainability to social impact organizations. Over the past five years, 100% of Advisory clients responding to a post-engagement survey rated the quality of work High/Very High Quality and 90% responded that they were Very Likely/Extremely Likely to recommend Advisory to a friend or colleague. Furthermore, as a result of their work:
- 79% of clients realized a positive culture change in their organization
- 84% of clients identified cost savings
- 76% of clients implemented cost savings or scaled effective programs/products
- 96% of clients identified earned revenue opportunities
I honor and celebrate Advisory‘s impact and wish these pioneering geniuses great success. Please feel free to contact Susan at sgordon@strategicgrowthgrp.
To the future…together!
Phillip Wm. Fisher
Founder, Mission Throttle