Your charity's Journey to Excellence©
J2E© is our unique tool for measuring change, progress, and success in the charities we help with our pro bono management consultancy.
Do you have a clear sense of where your charity or not-for-profit organisation is now, and where you want to be in the immediate and longer-term future?
Embarking on your Journey to Excellence© will help you understand your charity's effectiveness and ability to achieve your vision. J2E© works in harmony with our pro bono management consultancy to measure your organisation's progress, growth and success. With the help of your Regional Manager, you will fill out an assessment questionnaire to show your charity's position in four core business areas before and after the project:
1. Leadership and strategic direction
2. People management
3. Financial management and sustainability
4. Performance and impact
Once your pro bono management consultancy project ends, you and your Regional Manager will discuss the results of your pre and post project assessments.
The results will be used to produce your personalised J2E© Client Report which will help you to measure your progress, celebrate success, and set goals in areas you would like to develop further. J2E© is also a great tool for showing off your accomplishments to your trustees, funders, and other stakeholders.
What what are the key outcomes for your charity from the J2E© process?
Evaluate
Your personalised J2E© Client Report maps your charity's journey with us, evaluates your progress and provides you with a focus point for future development and success.
Communicate
J2E© helps you prioritise, plan, produce outputs, and measure performance, enabling you to communicate your organisation's progress with key stakeholders.
Learn
J2E© has been designed to educate and share knowledge, so you can identify strengths, areas for development and highlight further opportunities for growth.
Recognition
On completion of your J2E© project you will be awarded our recognition badge to demonstrate your charity's commitment to improvement.
Helping charities do more good with J2E©
Art at the Heart wished to build on its mission, vision, values and three year plan to help it grow and develop and to meet the Arts Council brief. It had appointed a Chair, but needed support in building the rest of the Board, finding the right people with the right skills. An appropriate volunteer was identified: Deirdre had experience in the arts sector, and knowledge of fundraising for arts organisations.
Art at the Heart made significant progress in all four core areas of their organisation, and the journey travelled within the main project area of Leadership and Strategic Direction was an impressive 32%.
The below illustration shows an example J2E© Client Report illustrating the pre and post project results across all four management areas.
J2E© recognition badge
In 2024 we introduced a recognition badge for those charities that have completed their J2E© consultancy project.
The badge has been developed for our charity clients who have completed their J2E© so they can proudly display their commitment to development and improvement. It can be used on a charity's own publications, website or e-communications to visibly show their development journey.