Your mission deserves your best.
I make sure the foundation matches the work.

I spent 25 years inside nonprofits, seven as CFO and COO. I fill the executive seats that organizations can't afford to staff.

Start a 30-minute conversation See where I help

Practice areas

Five things most nonprofits have nobody to do

You can start anywhere. Most organizations start with whatever is hurting this quarter.

Strategic planning and facilitation

The plan, the owners, the measures, and a quarterly scoreboard that outlives the retreat.

Governance and board effectiveness

Board structure, decision rights, ED evaluation. Built for how your organization actually works.

Outcomes and evaluation

One measurement system across your platforms, organized around what your funders need to see.

Risk, compliance, and privacy

The annual risk assessment, chaired and finished. The policy corpus, current. The remediation list, owned.

Finance and operations

Board packets that answer questions. Audit readiness. Reporting your board can act on.

How I work

Start where it hurts. Continue if it works.

One-time

Impact Baseline

A focused engagement scoped to your most pressing need. I review your current state, talk to your team, and deliver a clear-eyed report: what is working, what needs to change, and a concrete path forward.

Fixed fee, scoped in one conversation

Monthly

The Partnership

The seat, filled. Ongoing advisory on your calendar: quarterly strategy sessions, current reporting, and the judgment call when the quarter gets complicated. You keep the relationship. I keep the infrastructure running.

Monthly retainer, scoped to your needs

Project

Defined engagements

Board governance audit. Strategic plan facilitation. Annual risk assessment. Financial systems review. Standalone work at a fixed fee, no obligation to continue.

Fixed fee, fully scoped

The Baseline is month one of the Partnership. Continue straight on, or stop with the report in hand.

Who I work with

Mission-driven organizations that have outgrown their back office

I built my career inside a child welfare nonprofit and I work most frequently in human services: foster care, behavioral health, family services. Everything I build is privacy-first and accreditation-ready.

That experience extends to land trusts, community foundations, and any organization where the mission is real but the infrastructure behind it has not kept up.

Approach to AI

AI is a tool. Judgment is the job.

I make use of AI capabilities in my work, relying on my training, experience, and judgment to be the final arbiter of quality. Every conclusion and every number that leaves the building passes through twenty-five years of experience first.

I also help the organizations I work with adopt AI in their own operations. Where to start, what is practical today, and how to bring staff along without disrupting the programs.

About

Michael Blinn

I know what it takes to run the back office of a nonprofit because I did it for twenty-five years. Since then, C-level operations in manufacturing and clean energy. Touchstone Outcomes brings both halves together: the judgment of someone who sat in your chair, and the tools to prove what your mission changes.

25 yrs

People Places, Staunton VA. Seven as CFO/COO. Clean independent audits every year.

HIPAA

Privacy Officer. Accreditation lead in PQI/CQI, Financial Mgmt, IT, Risk Prevention.

C-level

Executive across nonprofit, manufacturing, and clean energy.

Board

Vice Chair, DuPont Community Credit Union. Fiscal oversight for 100,000+ members.

MBA

James Madison University. Founded giv2giv.org.

The name: a touchstone is the stone assayers used to prove gold was real.

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The conversation costs nothing.

Thirty minutes. Bring whatever is hardest right now.

(540) 245-0650 michael@touchstoneoutcomes.com linkedin.com/in/mblinn