For Nonprofits · The Executive Series
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This page details how The CIVIL Executive Series™ works for your leadership team. Tell Civil who you are, and the team will review your request and grant access.
Operating Foundation and Structure
- Clarifies internal structure, decision-making, and accountability.
- Strengthens governance, planning, and day-to-day operations, so teams move with less friction and more discipline.
Program Architecture and Resource Discipline
- Aligns program design with the people, funding, and resources required to sustain it.
- Grounded in community participation and research, so impact is built to hold rather than stretched thin.
Relational Communications and Institutional Voice
- Builds communication practices grounded in how the organization actually operates.
- Spans leaders, staff, and external relationships, so its voice matches its reality.
The CIVIL Framework™.
Civil’s methodology for institutional analysis and design is organized around eight institutional functions and applied through five disciplines. The Series puts the same framework Civil uses in its consulting practice to work inside a cohort.
Clarify
Establishes current-state conditions.
See the system as it is, with purpose, position, and intended impact defined precisely.
Integrate
Maps how functions relate.
Connect the pieces and make the interdependencies between functions explicit.
Validate
Tests structures against values.
Close the distance between what an institution promises and what actually carries it.
Implement
Translates analysis into decisions.
Turn design into practice, where declaration meets actual conditions.
Learn
Builds capacity to sustain.
The stabilizing discipline at the center, through which institutional judgment develops.
Civil carries the work. Your team participates.
Each 12-week intensive is organized in three modules. Civil carries the analytical and facilitation work throughout, so your team participates with nothing to manage, prepare, or coordinate.
Weeks 1 to 4*
The CIVIL Dashboard™
- Administers The CIVIL Dashboard™ with your organization, a scoped pre-intensive diagnostic.
- Surfaces current-state conditions, decision-making patterns, resource alignment, and priorities specific to the intensive’s function.
- One interview per leader, about 45 to 60 minutes.
- Review your Dashboard findings before the in-person intensive, with nothing to prepare independently.
In Person
Executive Intensive
- Designs and facilitates a two-day working session for your cohort at the midpoint.
- Guides your team through The CIVIL Framework™ disciplines toward a 90-day activation plan.
- Your senior leaders attend the two-day working session.
- No prep beyond reviewing Dashboard findings, and you leave with a completed activation plan.
Weeks 7 to 12*
Implementation Support
- Executive coaching and implementation guidance on your 90-day plan, plus a team activation session.
- Check-ins at the 60-day and 90-day marks complete the support arc.
- Your team meets with Civil weekly for six weeks for support implementing the activation plan.
- Every intensive includes a 60-day and 90-day check-in.
*Week ranges are approximate and adjust slightly by cohort and intensive.
Cohorts form city by city.
A cohort is four local nonprofits in one city, moving through all three intensives together over 36 weeks. New cohorts open on a rolling basis, choose your city to register interest, and Civil will confirm dates and available seats as it fills. Sponsorship and participation are arranged directly with Civil, with pricing and structure tailored to each foundation and organization in conversation.
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Bring your team into a cohort
Enroll your leadership team alongside peer institutions in your city. Tell Civil where you are and when you would like to start, and the team will confirm upcoming cohorts and available seats.
Have a funder sponsor your seat
Many organizations join with tuition covered by a foundation that already funds them. Start with a request letter you can customize and send, or point your funder to the For Foundations page where Civil explains how sponsorship works.