Tools You Can Use
Explore and download our Tools You Can Use to improve your strategic thinking and practical application.
Outputs + Outcomes = Impact
This practical resource helps nonprofit leaders understand the difference between outputs, outcomes, and impact. Using simple definitions and examples, it explains how organizational activities translate into measurable results, meaningful change, and long-term community impact. It’s a helpful starting point for teams looking to strengthen evaluation, communicate effectiveness, and support funding efforts.
Succession Planning Toolkit
Coming soon…
People With Lived Experience as Leaders in Solutions to Homelessness
This practical toolkit helps organizations move beyond consultation and meaningfully include people with lived experience of homelessness in leadership, planning, and decision-making. It offers guidance on team preparation, recruitment, orientation, engagement, compensation, and implementation, giving nonprofit, faith community, and local government leaders a starting point for building more inclusive and effective homelessness solutions.
Professional Development Plan
Coming soon…
Ways We Can Help Implement Tools You Can Use
Facilitation & Training
Executive and Leadership Coachings
Succession Planning
Fund Development Planning
Program Review & Development
Tool Modification & Adaptation
Board Engagement
Staff Development
Project Management
Organizational Review & Recommendations
Nonprofit Start Up Support
Need a Tool Not Listed Above?
Carson Dean Consulting can help your organization consider and implement any of our Tools You Can Use. Our team developed these tools as if we were implementing them in our own organization – based on past experience, current best practices, and developed expertise. As importantly, if you need a tool that isn’t among those listed about, let us know – we can probably find it or develop it with you. Just contact us and let’s talk!
Tools You Can Use are developed by our experienced professionals to help your organization thrive.
Thriving Organizations in Our Portfolio
Our insights are informed by the organizations, communities, and partnerships we have had the opportunity to support.
