Non-profit consulting in Minnesota.

Providing sustainability and growth through our non-profit consulting services.

  • Full Service Grant Writing

  • Budgeting & Bookkeeping

  • Leadership Coaching

  • Growth Strategy

We focus on your success while you focus on your mission. Together, we create synergy.

  • Project Planning & Mapping

  • Proposal Development

  • Grant Accounting & Technical Assistance

Our Mission

Synergy Development Solutions (SDS) was founded to fill the urgent need in the community to build organizational, financial, and staff capacity of our partner organizations leading to a more diverse and equitable organization equipped to take on their communities' most pressing challenges.

Synergy Development Solutions provides a client-centered, tailored, experience for our nonprofit partners in navigating the intricacies of operating, sustaining and growing a nonprofit organization.

Our Sector Expertise

  • WIOA and Department of Labor

    Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development

    Career Pathway Planning

    GED and Adult Basic Education program implementation

    Soft skills and work readiness training

    Program development to support women in training and employment in nontraditional careers

    Behavioral health workforce development and advocacy

  • Behavioral Health such as addiction and recovery services, suicide prevention, and community-based mental health

    Maternal Health

    Food Systems

    MnSure, SNAP, SNAP Employment and Training

  • Customized training

    Department budget development

  • Minnesota Department of Corrections

    Minnesota Department of Public Safety

  • Program development and implementation

  • Administrative capacity building, donor management, and event planning

  • Full-service proposal identification, development, stakeholder engagement and project management

Who We Are

Synergy Development Solutions is a women and LGBTQ+ owned partnership bringing over 35 years of experience in finance, business administration, program development, project management and continuous quality improvement.

We optimize our decades of experience to understand the unique opportunities and challenges of today's non-profits and respond with individualized and customized services and solutions that maximize impact.