What Challenges Does Your Organization Face?

Take a look across your organization and the challenges you are trying to solve. You may be trying to reach new customers in markets that are new. You may be trying to resolve labor issues in a supply chain, improve agriculture practice, or reduce the carbon footprint. You may recognize that your organization alone can’t resolve some of the biggest challenges facing people and the planet today.

Parallax Advisors is a mission-driven, impact-focused consultancy that can help.

We take the time to understand your organization and what it brings to the table. We dive deeply into approaches you’ve taken in the past. We strive to understand your long-term strategy. We look at what your competitors and comparators are doing.

Only then do we work with you to consider strategies that might include developing a new long-term strategic plan, building new business models, extending your team’s capacity, or building or assessing the effectiveness of cross-sector partnerships.

James Bernard has spent more than 25 years building impact strategies across a number of industries and sectors, including technology, agriculture, fisheries, non-profits and consumer goods. While each of these industries – and each individual organization – faces unique challenges, there is increasing recognition that no one organization can address the toughest challenges we are facing today. Effective and sustainable cross-sector collaborations are the glue that can drive solutions to common challenges.

Parallax works with a broad range of organizations to co-create effective partnerships to solve common goals:

Companies

Investors, employees, customers, channel partners and consumers now expect that companies will include sustainability strategies as a part of the core business strategy. Companies can bring unique assets to any cross-sector collaboration, whether its R&D, financing, market impact, products or channels. We help companies deliver partnerships that provide both social and business impact.

Foundations and Donors

Many funding organizations have traditionally with governments to solve large-scale issues but have more recently recognized the importance of private sector engagement, whether that’s at the local, regional or multinational level. We help donors and foundations leverage the strengths of the private sector and find common ground through partnerships.

Social Sector Organizations

NGOs, community-based organizations, trade associations and faith-based groups have technical expertise, on-the-ground knowledge and context, and measurement tools that are invaluable to successful partnership execution. Often, relationships with the private sector, foundations, and donors can lead to innovative finance models and sources of unrestricted funding. We help social sector organizations design new models to effectively leverage their strengths through partnership.