Improving Efficiency Through Your People, Planning & Process
Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur working overtime to get your idea off the ground or an established business hustling to fulfill growing customer requests, addressing time and cost efficiency will lead to increased opportunities. At trepwise, we work with our…
Don’t Leave Emergency Planning until it is Too Late
Although we are well into hurricane season, all businesses should engage in year-round planning for emergencies, so you have a game plan for keeping your employees and customers safe and eventually reopening when the crisis passes. This is a real…
Are You Planning for 2019?
With 2018 ending, trepwise recognizes that the next couple months represent a critical phase during which businesses and organizations can create plans that set them on the right course for the new year. Leveraging our core functions of extracting insights,…
Asking Questions of Your Data
You have goals and strategies for your organization. Every day, you spend time working on bringing those strategies to life. Strategies are not stagnant; you have to update them based on the changing needs of your business. How do you…
How to Strengthen Your Nonprofit
A lunchtime conversation with trepwise and the Greater New Orleans Foundation New Orleans (October 10, 2018) – Local consulting firm, trepwise, is partnering with the Greater New Orleans Foundation to co-host “How to Strengthen Your Nonprofit” – a lunchtime conversation…
It’s About IMPACT
We are in our fifth year here at trepwise, and we love what we do. We get the opportunity to work with amazing organizations and individuals across the non-profit, for-profit and public sectors, with the goal of building a thriving city….
trepwise in the Community
“Community, in this sense, is not merely something that one fits into; it is also something one chooses for oneself, through a process of self-discovery. It is based on shared circumstances, certainly, but offers a transcendent kind of togetherness. It…
3 Reasons to Say No to Funding
BY: Alex Harari, Financial Analyst Like all of us, non-profits need to keep the lights on. However, unlike most of us, keeping the lights in a non-profit can involve a rigorous grant process that involves a lengthy application, program evaluations,…
Here’s Why Everyone’s Saying You Should Have a Retreat in New Orleans
New Orleans is known for its bombastic tourism: Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras, and those legendary Pat O’Brien’s hangovers. However, at trepwise, we would argue that’s only a small slice of the tourism engine that brought over 9.78 million visitors in…
In Theory & In Practice: Best Practices for a Theory of Change
BY: BEN ROMERO, Advisory Services Associate Not since “.org” has a buzzword spread through the non-profit world with such saturation and expediency. You hear it exalted by funders, muttered by staff members, shouted in the middle of the night by…
Growing Pains: Common Challenges to New Orleans’ Businesses and Non-Profits
On my first day at trepwise, I found myself sitting in a sea of rabbis eating guacamole. This was not what I expected for a first day at a consulting firm, to say the least. I was helping make patterns…
How Non-profits Can Use Impact Metrics to Keep Their “Eye on the Why”
Running a successful organization is an exercise in balance between short-term needs and a long-term vision. We all get caught up in the “tyranny of the immediacy”- when operational necessities and challenges demand our attention at the expense of strategic…