Help Us
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What Kellwright Group needs to be ready to open, and how you can help.
Professional Help We Need
Kellwright Group is a professional services company. Before we advise other nonprofits, we want our own foundations checked by people who do this for a living. We are not asking for donated help.
Employment law counsel
Contractor agreements, worker classification, and the limits of our HR guidance.
Corporate and nonprofit counsel
Choosing and filing our legal form, reviewing work between Kellwright Group and Firebird Holdings, and reviewing our Terms and Privacy pages.
A licensed nonprofit CPA
Fund accounting, the design of The Ledger, and where our accounting help ends and a CPA audit begins.
Charitable solicitation counsel
Minnesota registration rules for grant writing and fundraising work for other nonprofits.
An insurance broker
Coverage for a professional services company and the contractors who work under it.
A data privacy and cybersecurity advisor
An independent review of how we handle information, and of our privacy policy.
A security and safety advisor
Where safety planning ends and licensed protective work begins under Minnesota rules.
An accessibility reviewer
A WCAG review of this website, with a written report.
Nonprofit HR professionals
A check of our handbook and hiring templates against real practice.
Technology Needed
We are a small company with no legacy systems, so we can choose well from the start. These are the tools we expect to need. We are not asking for donated products.
Secure email and file storage
For a small company whose contractors work from different places, with sharing controls that protect partner information.
Nonprofit accounting software
A system that handles net assets with and without donor restrictions.
Contractor payment and 1099 tools
To pay independent contractors, collect tax forms, and keep clean records.
E-signature
For contractor agreements and partner scopes of work.
A password manager and multi-factor sign-in
For everyone who works with us, from day one.
Encrypted backup
So no single lost laptop loses a partner’s work.
Project and task tracking
A shared board for each partner’s work, with clear owners and dates.
Tools to publish The Ledger
A way to turn accounting data into a public page every 24 to 72 hours.
Accessibility testing tools
To keep this site usable as it grows.
Donor and grants tracking
A system for deadlines and reporting, for the Grants and Fundraising department.
How to offer help
- Tell us who you are, what you do, and your rates, through the Contact page.
- We reply in writing to say whether there is a fit.
- Before any work starts, we put the arrangement in writing: what you will do, what you will be paid, and who owns the result.