Janus Small Associates offers you the solid experience and complete range of skills you need to get your nonprofit organization working efficiently and effectively. Through friendly, low-key counseling, we share with you the first-hand knowledge of nonprofit operations that we have earned over years of helping arts and culture, social service, education, faith-based and community development groups like yours become successful. Our expertise covers every step your organization will need to take, from identifying challenges and re-envisioning mission to building administrative structure and financial resources.

With our assistance, groups as diverse in size as Northeast Ohio's Art House and The Raymond John Wean Foundation have reinforced their direction and sustainability. Wean Foundation Executive Director Joel Ratner says Janus Small "has done excellent work in every situation.… She works well with people and groups under all circumstances."

Because we combine know-how with a warm, calm approach to problem-solving, we develop a supportive relationship with you that eases the process of finding the right path for your group. Sheryl Hoffman, founder of Art House and now director of major and planned gifts for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, credits Janus Small with being "a terrific mentor for me, both personally and professionally. …Much of Art House's success is really due to the work Janus did with us on start-up planning and board development."

Clients of Janus Small Associates include arts and cultural organizations such as GroundWorks Dancetheater, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Ohio Arts Council and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture; the Ohio faith-based groups Interreligious Partners in Action, Hebrew Free Loan Association and Trinity Cathedral; and social service and community development organizations such as the Cleveland Foundation, Antioch Development Corporation, the Case Western Reserve University Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and Mandel Center, Peace in the Hood, the Ohio Community Development Finance Fund and Lakeland Community College's Lakeland Foundation.

Whatever its mission, your nonprofit can look to Janus Small Associates for the best in experienced, innovative guidance. As Deb Yandala of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association puts it, "Janus Small offers outstanding facilitation skills and consultation, alongside visionary, creative thinking. She and her associates are assets to any group that wants to move an organization ahead in a positive, thoughtful way."