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 you’ll go straight through.
Real change, made with peers.
The Series is a structured, hands-on redesign of how an institution operates, worked through by a cohort of peer organizations and grounded in The CIVIL Framework™, the same methodology Civil applies in its consulting practice.
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 operates.
- Spans leaders, staff, and external relationships, so its voice matches its reality.
Civil carries the load. Your team stays in the work.
Each 12-week intensive is organized in three modules. Civil carries the analytical and facilitation load, so your team can stay focused on the decisions without heavy preparation. The work is built with your team, drawing on what they already know.
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, how resources match the work, 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 Retreat
- 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.
- Provides each participating organization with the book, Built to Hold, and The Companion Workbook for nonprofits, to work through together during the intensive.
- Your team attends the two-day working session.
- Your team builds its 90-day activation plan together during the two-day working session.
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.
- About an hour a week for six weeks, working through the activation plan with Civil.
- Two further check-in sessions, at 60 and 90 days.
*Week ranges are approximate and adjust slightly by cohort and intensive.
Midy is rigorous without being intimidating. She works alongside a team rather than above it, and doesn’t mind getting in the trenches with us.
From Civil’s consulting and advisory work, shared with permission. The first Series cohorts open in January 2027.
Executive directors and their senior teams. The room holds twelve people, all of whom carry decisions in their own institutions.
Each intensive runs 12 weeks: one interview of 45 to 60 minutes per leader, a two-day in-person retreat, and about an hour a week during implementation. The full series runs about 24 weeks.
Tuition is set per cohort and covered by a sponsoring foundation rather than paid from your own budget. Civil shares the current figure on the first call and gives you a request letter to send your funder.
A 90-day activation plan built by your own team, findings from The CIVIL Dashboard™, and the systems and language to keep running the work after the cohort ends.
Ask a funder to cover your tuition
Start with a request letter you can customize and send, or point your funder to the For Foundations page, which explains how funding a cohort works.