Our Services
Where systems meet mission
Civil is an interdisciplinary systems design firm that connects business, communications, finance, policy, risk management, and research into one applied approach.
We work with foundations, nonprofits, and small mission-driven businesses to build systems that bring purpose, structure, and performance into alignment so they can operate in complex environments.
Service Pillars at Civil Strategies

Organizational Architecture
We build on strategic plans and design governance models, internal structures, and operational systems that strengthen and align how organizations operate every day.

Business & Financial Systems
We build business models, pricing structures, development strategies, and financial systems that help organizations grow with discipline.

Strategic Communications Systems
We design communications systems that support influence and alignment across complex ecosystems — internally and externally.
How We Do It
Civil’s approach is deliberate. The CIVIL Framework™ is our systems design methodology that turns vision into the day-to-day architecture of decisions, operations, and culture. Where alignment isn’t aspirational, it’s practiced. It’s how we help our clients build systems that hold.
The CIVIL Framework™
C | Clarify
See the system as it is. We map how power, process, and perception shape decisions and outcomes.
I | Integrate
Connect the pieces. We align business, finance, leadership, communications, and policy into one.
V | Verify
Pressure test. We validate improvements through stakeholder dialogue, data, and lived experience.
I | Implement
Turn design into practice. We build accountability systems so decisions and culture align daily.
L | Learn
Turn design into practice. We build accountability systems so decisions and culture align daily.