Two weeks. One flat fee. At the end you hold a ranked list of every operational and compliance risk in your organization, rated by severity, with a 90 day fix plan and a named owner on every line.
Thirty minute call first. No pitch, no pressure. If the audit is not what you need, you will hear that from me.
You feel it in the week. The scramble before the board meeting. The one staffer who knows the CACFP rules. The site that opened a little differently than the last four. None of that is a mystery to the people doing the work. It is just never written down in one place, ranked, and put in front of the person who can fix it.
The same five areas that break most nonprofits, worked one at a time against what your organization actually does, not against a generic checklist.
Replication model, site launch consistency, SOP coverage, and where a lean team is carrying process in their heads.
CACFP, SFSP, and federal review readiness. Documentation trail, monitoring calendar, partner site consistency, single point of failure risk.
Who owns what, where the work is stacked, onboarding gaps, and the functions that stop cold when one person is out.
Board reporting cadence, whether the numbers connect to operations, and whether the board can actually govern from what they get.
Continuity plan, command structure, and how many days you could operate through a funding shock or a storm.
Nothing here is open ended. That is the point. Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed end date.
One kickoff call with you. A single document request list goes out. Org chart, SOPs if they exist, last monitoring or audit correspondence, board packet, program numbers. If a document does not exist, that is already a finding.
Up to five conversations with the people who run the work. Thirty minutes each, remote. Program lead, compliance, finance, and whoever your team says is the one who knows everything. That last one is usually where the risk lives.
Findings get written, rated by severity and by cost of doing nothing, and sequenced. Sequencing matters more than the list. Fixing things in the wrong order is how most improvement plans die in month two.
The 90 day fix plan gets built. Every item has an owner, a due date, and a definition of done. Written to be run by your team, not by me.
Sixty minutes. Walk the findings, walk the plan, answer the hard questions in the room. Board chair welcome. Then the documents are yours, and you can run the plan yourself or bring me in to run it with you.
Fourteen years at North Texas Food Bank. Food 4 Kids from a pilot to 300 sites across 13 counties. Kids Cafe to 28 locations. Emergency food operations for more than 2,000 families per event during COVID. Every one of those programs carried federal money and every one of them passed.
No. The audit is a complete piece of work with a start and a finish. The plan is written for your team to run. If you want me to run it with you, $925 of the audit fee applies to your first month. If you do not, you still keep everything.
Often yes. Capacity building and organizational effectiveness grants routinely cover assessment work, and many funders will fund an audit faster than they will fund staff. Bring your funder relationships to the call and we will look at what is available.
One hour from you at kickoff, thirty minutes each from up to five staff, and one hour from your team at the findings session. Under six hours of organizational time across two weeks. The document request is the heaviest lift and most of it is already sitting in a drive folder.
That is the most common outcome and it is a good day, not a bad one. A risk you can see has a due date on it. A risk you cannot see has a monitoring letter attached to it. You will get the honest version either way, delivered to you before it goes anywhere near a board packet.
Remote as standard, which is what keeps it at this price. Houston area organizations can have the kickoff and the findings session in person at no additional cost. Onsite work outside the Houston area is quoted separately.
No. The free tool is a self assessment that tells you roughly where to look. This is an outside operator going through your actual documents, talking to your actual staff, and telling you what is true. If the free check made you uncomfortable, this is the next step.
You have already read the page. This is not a pitch for it. We cover what is actually going on, what the audit would touch, whether the timing works, and whether it is a fit at all. If it is not, you will hear that on the call.
Thirty minutes and we will figure out whether the audit is the right move or whether you need something else entirely. Either way you leave the call with something useful.
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