Our Approach

Accelerating impact through affiliations

Today’s small- and mid-sized human services nonprofits face an increasingly untenable choice:

Get acquired and sacrifice your identity or remain independent and operate with significant risk, limited resources and increasing impact impediments. 

Devereux’s Impact Accelerator Model is purpose-built for organizations that are looking to future-proof and create a plan for a sustainable operating model.

Impact Accelerator Model

Built on collaboration and open conversation from the first interaction, our unique affiliation approach ensures alignment on goals, needs and the best path forward in four critical areas: Care, Culture, Compliance and Core Systems.

Core Systems

  • Financial Strength

  • Back Office Support

  • Technology Systems and Software

Care

  • Clinical Expertise

  • Programs and Services

  • Operational Excellence

Compliance

  • Regulatory Reporting

  • Data and Metrics

  • Reputation Management

Culture

  • Mission and Values

  • Staffing and Talent Management

  • Brand and Community Engagement

Benefits to Affiliates

Devereux Partners’ unique approach offers distinct benefits to nonprofits when compared to traditional M&A options from larger, financially-motivated buyers.

  • Expanded recruiting and training resources

  • Enhanced benefits and career advancement opportunities

  • Enriched clinical, medical and leadership expertise

  • Enhanced quality and safety protocols, risk management data systems

  • Future-proofing and long-term stability

“Our partnership with Devereux is a mission-driven collaboration combining Devereux's extensive national resources and proven clinical expertise with our deep community roots. One real gamechanger in our partnership is Devereux’s ASCEND Career Accelerator Program, which offers transformative benefits including tuition assistance, student loan repayment and professional mentoring opportunities. It’s just one way we’re enhancing our work while preserving a legacy that dates back more than half a century.”

Cynthia “Cindy” Pasquinelli
CEO, Strawberry Fields, Inc.

A Deeper Commitment to Employees

Talent management has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges facing human services organizations. Finding – and keeping – top people is becoming increasingly difficult.

Committed employees bring stronger operations, better relationships and deeper institutional knowledge.

Devereux ASCEND is a unique and comprehensive career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare team members the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance they need to reach their full potential.

Devereux Partners affiliates gain access to the Devereux ASCEND program, creating meaningful and rewarding careers aimed at enhancing expertise, productivity expertise and longevity.