Governance & Strategy
How you decide and direct. Board oversight, strategic alignment, decision rights, and the documents that show your organization is steered with intent.
THE NOHC PAGE
You are deciding whether NOHC is right for your team.
This page is built to help you decide: how NOHC runs, what you receive, who built it, the two tiers with full pricing, and the questions teams ask before they say yes.
Book a Fit Session7
Operating domains reviewed
45
Evidence-based questions
4 weeks
To your Decision Summary
90 days
To a working Operating Portal
OUR SCOPE
The seven operating domains.
Six describe the work an organization does. A seventh wires them together.
Finance & Compliance
How you handle money and meet rules. Controls, reconciliation, audit-readiness, and the evidence funders and regulators expect to see.
People & Culture
How you hire, support, and keep staff and volunteers. Roles, policies, supervision, and the cultural practices that keep an organization stable as it grows.
Fundraising & Donor Standards
How you raise, track, and report on funds. Donor stewardship, restricted fund accounting, and the proof that funders rely on.
Program & Evaluation
How you run programs and prove outcomes. Logic models, indicators, and the cadence that shows your work is making the change you say it is.
Communications
How you show up externally. Brand voice, funder stewardship, member communication, public presence, advocacy, and the crisis playbook funders increasingly expect.
THE CONNECTIVE LAYER
Data, Systems & AI
How your tools, files, and AI all hold up. Where data lives, who can reach it, and whether your systems are funder-, board-, and audit-defensible. This is the layer that wires the other six together so the work can run.
Wires
6 → 1
DOMAINS · ONE SUBSTRATE
METHODOLOGY
How NOHC runs.
Every engagement runs the same diagnostic across all seven domains. What changes is what we hand back: a PDF, or a working portal your board uses.
PROOF MAP
Operating evidence at a glance
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domains with evidence on file
Evidence coverage71%
01Governance & reportingReady
02Financial healthPartial
03People & cultureMissing
01Fit Call
A free 30-minute call to confirm fit. Then you sign and we begin.
02Intake
Your ED completes a short intake and uploads a few documents.
03Deep Dive
Your board chair, treasurer, and program lead each fill their area.
04Findings session
We build the full 7-domain picture and walk it through live.
WHO BUILT IT
Built by an operator, not a consultant.
Ben Serunyigo
Founder, Nimara Technology Inc.
Edmonton, Alberta
Ben founded Nimara after years inside Canadian nonprofit operations. The pattern was the same in every organization he worked with: capable people doing important work on infrastructure that did not exist. So he built the infrastructure first, then the methodology to make it stick.
Ben is based in Edmonton. He personally takes on grant writing, funding strategy, and capacity reviews for organizations he cares about. Nimara, the company, builds the operating substrate. The two are kept separate on purpose. When you engage Nimara, you engage Nimara. When you engage Ben directly for funding work, that is a separate conversation.
Nimara is a federally incorporated Canadian company (1736980-8). NOHC has been delivered across multiple Canadian nonprofits since launch.
Ruthless on systems. Graceful on people. Most consultants pick one. We hold both sides.
ONE DEEP EXAMPLE
How a newly registered Black-led charity used NOHC to convert media credibility into stewardable funding.
Anonymized at the client's request. The pattern is common across newly registered charities with public visibility but no operating substrate.
BEFORE NOHC
A founder carrying everything
The founder ran the foundation pro bono on top of a full-time job. The board existed in name. Documents existed but were scattered across personal drives. A CBC feature had driven donations but most went un-stewarded.
Charity status had been granted recently. The first T3010 was due in 47 days. The founder's hours per week on the foundation were unsustainable. Funders had stopped renewing.
DURING NOHC
Three domains needed to move
Across the seven operating domains, three sat at Tier 1 Reactive: Governance and Strategy, People and Culture, and Communications. Finance and Compliance were at Tier 2 because the treasurer was a CPA volunteer and the bookkeeping was current.
The Exposure Map named the highest-leverage gaps. No committee structure. No documented receipting policy. No stewardship sequence for the CBC audience. No Compliance Calendar.
The Build Map prioritized a four-week sprint that would close the highest-stakes gaps before the first T3010 filing.
AFTER NOHC
A working substrate the board uses
The Operating Portal landed at portal.theirorg.ca on Day 88. Three committees stood up with named chairs. Policies consolidated into a single library. The Compliance Calendar populated with the first T3010, the Alberta Societies Act annual return, and the annual COI cycle.
The CBC cohort received a structured welcome sequence. The treasurer's receipting workflow auto-generated CRA-compliant receipts.
The founder's hours per week dropped. The board started picking up tasks from a shared marketplace. Three funder conversations re-opened within 60 days.
The portal made the difference. We had been telling funders we were doing the work. After NOHC, we could show them the substrate. That is a different conversation.
Anonymized at the client's request. Quote published with permission.
THE DECISION
Two ways to engage. Pick the one that matches what you will do with the findings.
Both tiers begin with the same diagnostic you read about in the Methodology section. They differ in what you receive at the end and what your team can do with it. There is also a no-commitment starting point (Free Snapshot) for teams who are still exploring.
FOR TEAMS READY TO BUILD
Already know what you need to build?
Some teams come to us with the priority already clear. We start with a short scoping step to confirm it is the right build, then move into Build.
Build Sprint and System Care are scoped after NOHC. NOHC does not guarantee funding, audit results, compliance outcomes, or board approval. What NOHC guarantees is delivery of the substrate and methodology described above.
QUESTIONS
Common questions before you book.
These are the questions teams ask before saying yes. If you have one we have not answered, bring it to the Fit Session.
Have a question that is not here? Bring it to a Fit Session below.
WHEN YOU ARE READY
Want to talk first?
A Fit Session is 30 minutes on video. No deck. No sales pitch. Three questions, a clear recommendation, and a door that opens both ways.
WHAT WE WILL ASK
- What is your operation carrying right now?
- What is the next thing that has to happen?
- What is in the way?
WHAT YOU WILL LEAVE WITH
- A clear recommendation. Free Snapshot, Insight Report, Operating Portal, or none of these.
- If NOHC is not the right fit, a referral to someone better suited.
- The next move. Whatever you decide.
If NOHC is not right for your team, we say so. We do not pitch what you do not need.
Book a Fit Session
Or start light. Free Snapshot returns your top operating pressure within 48 hours. No call required.
Start Free SnapshotNOHC is not an audit, legal review, accounting review, compliance guarantee, funding decision, or AI-only assessment. NOHC observes your operating practice and shows you the next step. Your auditor, regulator, funder, and board certify outcomes.