For funders & impact investors

We help invest in the organizations behind the impact

Pine Lake Ops works with funders and impact investors who want the organizations they support to have the operational capacity to sustain their work, adapt to change, and grow their impact.

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The organizations you support have to sustain the work you fund.

Funding can make more possible. It can also bring new programs, hiring, reporting, coordination, and expectations. When operational capacity doesn’t keep pace, more of that work falls back on the people already carrying the organization.

Pine Lake Ops strengthens that operational layer so the organization itself is better able to sustain the work, adapt to change, and grow its impact.

Funding and investment, and operational capacity building from Pine Lake Ops, converge into a stronger organization able to sustain, adapt, and grow, which opens outward into durable impact for people, communities, causes, and the environment.
How we can work together

There are different ways to support stronger organizations.

You might sponsor Pine Lake Ops to work with an organization you already support, fund a specific capacity need through technical assistance, or explore another model together. We can start with the need and design the right shape around it.

However the work is funded, we work directly with the organization on what it needs.

Laura and Ryan Shaw, co-founders of Pine Lake Ops

You’d work directly with Laura and Ryan Shaw, two operators with more than 25 years of combined experience across nonprofits, startups, healthcare, and enterprise organizations.

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What are you hearing from the organizations you support?

Tell us where capacity constraints keep showing up, where good funding is creating new demands, or where stronger operating capacity could help an organization carry more of the work.

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