Company Profile
Common Great
Company Overview
Common Great is a woman-owned, woman-led collective based in Seattle that helps nonprofits build forward-looking development and communications practices that innovate and get results. We’re rooted in the fundamentals that have helped over 160 nonprofit clients succeed, but wired to help organizations navigate an ever-changing landscape of digital transformation. We work through a lens of justice, equity, and belonging to help build the power and voice of the communities we and our clients serve.
Common Great customizes our approach based on our clients’ mission, history, impact model, stage of growth, budget, and staff capacity. Our core team works with and consults for multiple nonprofits simultaneously - operating with an iterative culture of teaching and continuous learning that unleashes their ability to succeed after our work together. We constantly test innovative ideas and emerging practices in real-time across all our clients. Our vision of sector impact as consultants is collaboration and partnership, not competition.
Our founder and current team have helped 160+ client nonprofits on 4 continents raise over $65 million. We’ve worked with nonprofits of all size across many mission spaces, including California ChangeLawyers, Childhaven (now Akin), End Well, Futurewise, Gamers Engaged, Girl Scouts of Western Washington, The Holocaust Center for Humanity, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, International Community Health Systems (ICHS), King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (KCSARC), Legal Foundation of Washington (LFW), Mary’s Place, Museum of Northwest Art, Program for Early Parent Support (PEPS), Project Angel Food, Rainier Scholars, Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), Seattle Neighborhood Farmers’ Markets, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Summer Search, The Who We Are Project, and more.
We have a 90–100% remote work model and a very informal working environment that is fun, flexible, and outcome-oriented. As a white-led organization, Common Great is keen to continue to build equity and inclusion into our practices, including ensuring that our strategy as a company and the work we do with clients is filtered through a lens of equity, social justice, accountability, and community-centric fundraising.
Benefits
Common Great takes rest, wellness, and mental health seriously as a company. We know from personal experience that front-line employment in the nonprofit sector puts workers at extraordinary risk of burnout. As a company, we want to lead by example and set a visibly different norm for nonprofits and other consultancies.
Our intention is to create generous paid and unpaid time off policies for our team that allow you to build the kind of life and work-life balance that you want for yourself. We want our team to have flexibility, rest, recuperation, and the ability to absorb the ups and downs of life without threat to your success or employment.
Common Great is still a startup, and we intend to build our employee benefits up over time. Current benefits include:
- Two weeks (10 days or 80 hours) of paid time off for vacation (VPTO) each year, fully accessible after 90 days of employment (no incremental accrual over time).
- Paid time off for sick leave (SPTO) each year, accruing immediately at the Washington state and Seattle-compliant rate of one hour of paid sick leave for every 40 hours worked, accessible 90 days after employment begins.
- Two additional weeks (10 days or 80 hours) of unpaid time off (UTO) each year, accessible immediately upon employment without incremental accrual over time. UTO can be used flexibly for any purpose.
In addition to VPTO, SPTO, and UTO, observed federal or cultural holidays where you will not be expected to work nor provide notice of absence:
- New Year's Day (January 1)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Third Monday in January)
- Presidents Day (Third Monday in February)
- Memorial Day (Last Monday in May)
- Juneteenth National Independence Day (June 19)
- Independence Day (July 4)
- Labor Day (First Monday in September)
- Indigenous People’s Day (Second Monday in October)
- Veterans Day (November 11)
- Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November)
- Christmas Day (December 25)
Common Great also provides:
- $250/mo healthcare stipend. Common Great does not provide medical or dental insurance at this time; your healthcare stipend may be used any way you see fit, including purchasing insurance or other expenses if you already have insurance.
- $500 technology stipend every two years, accessible after three months of employment.
- Quarterly bonuses based on profit-sharing.
- Matching donations you make to up to 501(c)(3) organizations, up to $250/year.