Your work changes lives.
Your data can prove it.

Strategic planning, outcomes measurement, and board-ready data dashboards for mid-sized nonprofits, led by a consultant who spent 25 years inside one.

Founding Partner Program: 3 slots for 2026 · details
Your data lives in five systems. Donor CRM, program software, accounting, and spreadsheets that never agree with each other.
Reporting eats your staff. Every grant report and board packet is rebuilt by hand. Days of work, and no one fully trusts the numbers.
Funders want outcomes, not activity. Grantmakers increasingly fund organizations that can prove impact, and quietly pass on those that can't.
What we build together

From what you spend to what you change

One data pipeline across every platform you already use, organized around the logic model your funders think in.

Live dashboards your board, staff, and funders can finally trust.

Two services. One seamless path.

One-Time Engagement

The Impact Baseline

A guided strategic discovery session with your leadership team, followed by deep analysis of the data you already have: donor CRM, program systems, accounting, spreadsheets. You receive a board-and-funder-ready Impact Report covering your strategic direction, your outcomes framework, and what your data proves today. Yours to keep, whatever you do next.

4–6 weeks  ·  fixed fee, scoped in one conversation
The Baseline is month one of the Partnership. Continue seamlessly, with no new project and no re-onboarding, or stop with the report in hand.
Ongoing Partnership

The Outcomes Partnership

Your Impact Report, kept alive: recurring board and funder reporting packages refreshed from your live data, quarterly strategy sessions, and an outcomes advisor on call as your programs evolve. We maintain the data pipeline behind the scenes. You present the proof.

monthly retainer  ·  scoped to your systems and reporting cadence
Who we serve

Deep roots in three corners of the mission world

Specialized experience where data is hardest, and mission-driven organizations of every stripe in between.

Human Services

Child Welfare & Family Services

Twenty-five years inside a child welfare nonprofit: seven as CFO/COO, years as HIPAA Privacy Officer, and COA accreditation leadership across PQI/CQI, finance, IT, and risk. Your outcomes pipeline is built privacy-first and accreditation-ready. And if your annual HIPAA security risk assessment keeps slipping, we chair it for you.

Conservation

Land & Conservation Trusts

Easement portfolios, stewardship obligations, accreditation renewals: conservation outcomes deserve better than a fragile spreadsheet. We turn acres, easements, and stewardship activity into reporting your members, funders, and accreditors can see and trust.

Philanthropy

Funders & Foundations

As founder of giv2giv.org (donor-advised-fund technology now carried on at philanthropi.com), we speak grantmaker: portfolio-level outcomes, grantee reporting burdens, and how good data design lightens both sides of the funding relationship.

Serving nonprofits with budgets of $2M–$10M across Virginia & the mid-Atlantic.

Why Michael Blinn

Most consultants have seen nonprofit finance from across the table. I ran it: 25 years with a child welfare organization, seven of them as CFO/COO, presenting to the board, surviving the audits, and building the KPI dashboards our decisions actually ran on.

Since then I've been a C-level operator in manufacturing and clean energy, modernizing systems and managing to the numbers. Touchstone Outcomes brings both together: the strategic judgment of someone who sat in your chair, and the modern data capability to prove what your mission changes.

  • 25 years at People Places (Staunton, VA child welfare nonprofit), including seven as CFO/COO: clean independent audits every year, organization-wide KPI dashboards, enterprise risk management.
  • HIPAA Privacy Officer and Council on Accreditation (COA) leader. Years of annual HIPAA risk assessments; led accreditation efforts in PQI/CQI, Financial Management, IT, and Risk Prevention, the formal discipline of proving quality with data.
  • C-level executive across mission-driven, manufacturing, and clean-energy organizations: strategy, finance, and operations.
  • Vice Chair, DuPont Community Credit Union board: fiscal oversight on behalf of 100,000+ members; former Treasurer and ALM Committee Chair.
  • MBA, Executive Leadership (James Madison University); founder of giv2giv.org (now philanthropi.com).
Limited program

Founding Partner Program — 2026

Three organizations receive the complete Impact Baseline on preferred founding-partner terms, locked through their first Partnership year. In return, we publish a case study of your results: we write it, you simply approve it. Nothing else is asked of you.

3 slots · then the program closes
Ask about a founding slot

The conversation costs nothing.

Thirty minutes. Bring your messiest reporting problem; leave knowing whether the Baseline fits, and what it would show you.

Email Michael directly