MainSpring International, Inc.
Civic and Social OrganizationsUnited States2-10 Employees
MainSpring is a women-owned small business providing high impact/low cost solutions for civil society organizations to assist them to fulfill core functions and attain strategic objectives. The company’s mission is to strengthen the ability of its clients to identify and excel at key processes that are most important to achieving their raison d’être. MainSpring aims to improve the ability of organizations to align their strategic goals with their operational capacities. MainSpring’s guiding principle is to help clients achieve the independence and professionalism needed to successfully realize their missions and become drivers of change within their own countries. The company does this by focusing on establishing short- and long-term goals for clients to ensure sustainability and reduce their reliance on external assistance. The company offers advisory services and easily accessible tools and resources to address clients’ development needs within the context of the company’s goals to: • Empower civil society to become responsible for its own development; • Enable civil society particularly at the grassroots level to optimize resources and leverage them to fashion impactful programming; and, • Support civil society to identify, prioritize and achieve strategic goals. The company's focal areas for institutional strengthening include: • organizational development • community-based project implementation • project management • advocacy planning • monitoring and evaluation • fundraising and sustainability strategies