What's Our Impact?

Here is what our clients say about us – results often speak for themselves:

“After working in the trenches for years, our approach to our work and the way we communicate its impact to others had become stale.  Social Impact Architects helped us take a fresh perspective, enabling us to put new energy into our work and
with a focus that really engages our public!” 
Maria Machado, Executive Director, Shared Housing Center (Dallas, TX)

“Suzanne Smith is what I want in a nonprofit consultant…a
savvy business professional with a passion for driving social change.  Impressive educational and professional qualifications lend considerable credibility to Suzanne’s ability.  Layer on top
of this her engaging personal qualities and her innate capacity for strategic visioning, and…well, she’s that good.  I was introduced to Suzanne in her role as a director for a year-long building social enterprises program sponsored by Community Wealth Ventures, and I was sold on her talents in the first session.” 
Greg Ebel, Executive Director, Health Improvement Collaborative of Greater Cincinnati

“Suzanne was fantastic in assisting the Institute with a strategic board retreat and logic model.  Her support, skills, and insights during a critical transition period were invaluable.  With the demands of a young organization, having a trusted and experienced mentor to guide us has enabled us to be more effective.  Suzanne, always the consummate professional, is a pleasure to work with and we have been repeatedly impressed with the quality of her work and guidance.”
Sarah Kate Fishback, Director of Operations, Institute for Sustainable Development (Durham, NC)

“Social Impact Architects helped our organization move toward developing a social enterprise to earn money for our mission,
and even helped us  determine the right opportunities to pursue. Suzanne worked closely with staff to develop an implementation plan and provided practical advice to help us avoid pitfalls along the way.  Suzanne Smith is a strategic thinker, and excellent trainer,
and an experienced facilitator who understands the nonprofit environment.”
Florence Tandy, Executive Director, Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission

“Suzanne just has a “spark” in her – it was clear to me from the moment I met her that she “got it” and was committed to helping us. She listened first, gave meaningful advice, and worked with us on a solution. Many MBAs believe that they know everything and can easily solve issues for nonprofits. Because of her background, she knows how tough it is to be a nonprofit and operates as a partner rather than a typical consultant. I highly recommend her and Social Impact Architects.”
Kevin McDonald, CEO, Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA) (Durham, NC)

“It has been a true pleasure working with Social Impact Architects. Suzanne worked with Rainbow Days as a part of the Texas Social Innovation Initiative to examine one of our key programs, Family Connection, from every aspect.  She challenged us to look at our program through the perspective of a prospective investor. With her guidance and coaching, we worked together on crafting an operating model to describe our program, designing a prospectus to summarize and promote the program and a power point to communicate and pitch our program to potential investors.  Suzanne worked with our team on refining the language used to describe our program, challenging us to hone in on a succinct needs statement and walking us through the goal-setting and budgeting process.  The result was a clear and succinct message that gave us a simple and effective way to communicate with potential donors. Suzanne gave challenging, thought-provoking and helpful insight as our consultant that has been tremendously valuable to our organization.   Suzanne is a good listener and a good coach - articulate, sharp, and knowledgeable - and we are grateful for the counsel that Social Impact Architects has provided to Rainbow Days.”
Cathey Brown, CEO & Tiffany Beaudine, Business Development, Rainbow Days (Dallas, TX)

“I have worked with Suzanne in several capacities and remain in awe and respect of her talents.   She was our Community Wealth Venture consultant for a social enterprise of our nonprofit agency and more recently serves as the CEO of the Leadership Council of Human Service Executives in the Greater Cincinnati region.  I serve as President of the Board of this organization and sought out Suzanne for this position on a part-time basis.  We selected her for her broad and deep knowledge of the social service sector, her proven ability to form significant and meaningful partnerships,  and her political and business savvy.   Now one year later, there is unanimous agreement that she has exceeded everyone’s expectations.  Our organization is now more focused, our board is significantly engaged, and we are working at a far more strategic level.   She is a catalyst and I would highly recommend her to any organization seeking significant results.”
Tricia Burke, President, Leadership Council & Co-CEO, LifePoint Solutions (Cincinnati, OH)