Pharo Guard – Don’t let small risks topple big goals.
Pharo Guard allows non-profit associations and consultants to offer their members & clients a comprehensive solution to identify risks, create an action plan and solve key issues.
Strengthen Your Network of Non-Profits While Generating Revenue and Driving Innovation.
Pharo Guard allows Non-Profit Associations and Consultants to offer greater value by connecting their networks of non-profits to a suite of easy to use risk management tools. Our tools allow non-profits to pinpoint problem areas, generate an action plan, and access the resources needed to solve issues.
Pharo Guard is distributed exclusively through our group of partners. Getting started as a partner is easy, and allows you to increase the value that you offer your members and clients.
What is Pharo Guard?
Pharo Guard is a straightforward tool designed to measure the risks faced by non-profit organizations. It evaluates factors such as financial stability, IT and Cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency to provide a clear picture of potential vulnerabilities. It identifies the vulnerabilities and provides you with simple clear solutions to fix the identified issues.
How Does the Pharo Guard Partner Program Work?
Eligible organizations can apply to become Pharo Guard partners. This allows their roster of non-profits to access our services at significant discounts, while receiving priority support and updates.
Best of all, our partners receive a referral fee, allowing them to contribute to their financial sustainability and diversify their revenue.
The Pharo Guard Process:
1. Identify Risks
Our platform allows organizations to perform a comprehensive self-evaluation in finance, IT, and operations. The process is simple and guided.
2. Get Your Action Plan
Our expertly tailored scoring system reveals the exact areas where a non-profit or charity may be at risk, and provides feedback for risk mitigation.
3. Solve Problems
Developed from over 15 years of hands-on experience in working with non-profits, our platform includes training and resources to address risks.
Empower Your Members to Solve Problems Before They Get Out of Hand, and Focus on Growth and Innovation Instead.
Let Pharo Guard empower your network of non-profits with actionable insights and a risk management plan.
Non-profit leaders and board members have shared their experiences:
- 73% of nonprofit board members regularly discuss risk management in their meetings.
- 50% of nonprofit organizations identify financial risks as a top concern.
- 35% of nonprofit organizations DO NOT have a formal risk management plan.
Pharo Guard helps non-profits to manage and evaluate risk in key areas of organizational domains, including finance, IT & cybersecurity, and operations. Pharo Guard helps to answer the following questions:
- Is an organization compliant?
- What are the key areas of risk?
- Which problems are holding you back from growth?
Benefit from the risk management insights provided by Pharo Guard.
Who We Are
At Pharo we are committed to helping non-profit and charitable organizations navigate their growth journey. Our services focus on enhancing operational processes and fostering scalable growth through enhanced risk management. With a global presence marked by more than 15 years of experience in the non-profit sector, our expertise is aimed at driving transformational change for non-profits, NGOs and charities worldwide.
Using this wealth of knowledge, we aim to deliver tangible results in key domains such as operational optimization, risk analysis, efficiency enhancement, and governance support – all designed with the goal of magnifying the impact of your organization’s mission.
What We Offer
- Pharo Score: Using our bespoke Pharo Score Tool we help you calculate the risk of organizations that you work with
- Pharo Guard: Our Pharo Guard program provides individual non-profits & charities with actionable insights and resources to mitigate their risk
- Pharo Academy: Pharo Academy consists of 50 courses created specifically for the non-profit sector, focusing on areas such as governance, finance, AI, cybersecurity and emerging trends
How Does Pharo Guard
Measure Risk?
Imagine a method to gauge an organization’s potential risk based on the well-established best practices in the non-profit and charitable sector. This is precisely what the Pharo Score offers – a statistical tool designed for pinpointing key risk areas in your non-profit, and providing an actionable strategy towards improvement.
Formulated with the expertise of industry leaders specialized in non-profits and charities, the Pharo Score has been refined through rigorous testing by hundreds of organizations, ensuring its validity as a robust analytical tool.
In contrast to costly management consultants who might charge exorbitant sums to address operational hurdles, we commit ourselves to create accessible tools and resources that empower you to optimize your non-profit operations more effectively. With our support, you’re able to scale up your organization more efficiently, concentrate on core service delivery, and consequently amplify impact within your crucial sectors.
How Much Does it Cost?
Organizations pay $0 to become Pharo Guard Partners – and their members can access our resources at a special rate of only $3,600 per year.
Who can become a Pharo Guard partner?
The Pharo Guard partner program is only available to eligible non-profit associations, risk management firms and consultants.
Why is this not a one time purchase?
We update Pharo Guard regularly, according to emerging trends and risks in the sector.
Is Pharo Guard Secure?
All data is secured using industry best-practices, and we avoid collecting sensitive or personally identifiable information as much as possible. No specific financial data or documents are ever uploaded to the system. We simply measure policies, procedures, practices and operations to arrive at a Pharo Guard. We will never ask for:
- Financial Statements
- Payrol Data
- Client Data
- Computer passwords
TLDR;
Pharo Guard is the only tool designed to help non-profits address risk and solve problems with actionable feedback and action items.
All Pharo Guard Memberships Include:
Support
Each package includes a start-up and check in coaching call, as well as access to updates and our community.
Resources
We’ve assembled hundreds of policies and templates to help you address common operational issues.
Education
Specialized non-profit education designed from the ground up to address the most important risk items.
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