Cascade AIDS Project: Building a Strategic Framework for Resilience and Impact
The Challenge: As one of Oregon’s most prominent nonprofits, the Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) is navigating the delicate balance between staying focused on its core mission and addressing the broader, intersectional needs of vulnerable communities. CAP’s commitment to excellence in service delivery and its holistic approach to supporting health, equity, and well-being create unique pressures, especially when the need is immense, and resources are finite. Balancing these priorities requires careful focus, strategic clarity, and a unified effort to ensure impactful outcomes without compromising their mission.
Our Process: The Metamorphic Team is working collaboratively with CAP to design a strategic framework that helps them balance the intersectional needs of vulnerable communities with CAP’s core mission, ensuring their focus, capacity, and resources are aligned to achieve the greatest impact. Through in-depth organizational assessments, facilitated listening sessions with board members, staff, clients, funders, and other partners, and decision-making retreats focused on strategic alignment, resource prioritization, and operational clarity, we are helping CAP create a roadmap for impactful, sustainable action.
The Transformation: Through this process, CAP is working toward greater clarity on its strategic priorities while maintaining its commitment to an intersectional mission of health, equity, and well-being. The organization is striving for improved alignment among its team and the development of a flexible, resilient framework to guide its work. By exploring ways to focus resources for maximum impact, CAP aims to adapt to evolving needs and continue its dedication to serving the LGBTQ+ community and those affected by HIV.