Boutique advisory for NGOs and mission-driven organizations worldwide
Lever & Core helps NGOs and mission-driven organizations, from global networks to local nonprofits, turn ambition into plans that hold, resolve the conflicts that stall them, and use AI where it saves real hours.
The firm
Lever & Core is a boutique advisory led by Uriel Edery, working with a network of specialists. We work with organizations that operate across countries, cultures and languages, and with the local teams that carry their mission on the ground.
Our work starts where things have grown messy: a plan nobody follows, offices pulling in different directions, a pipeline that never seems to close. We find what is really holding things back, solve it with your people, and leave a system your team can run without us.
Interviews, data and a clear picture of how work really flows.
The plan, the process or the decision, built with your people.
Playbooks, training and a review rhythm, so it lasts.
Services
Each one starts with a workshop. Then, if you want more, we go deeper together.
01 · Focus
Most organizations push on everything at once. In two hours, your senior team agrees on the single limit that sets the pace of your impact.
What you leave withOne constraint, named and agreed by the team, and a focus plan for the next month.
Then, if you want more
Turn that focus into a full work plan with owners and a review rhythm.
02 · Strategy & plan
Start with
Plans that teams actually use.
Annual and multi-year work plans tied to the mission, with named owners, clear timelines and a review rhythm that keeps everyone honest.
Then, if you want more
What it covers
Typical formatDiagnostic sprint · 3–6 weeks
One organization, many markets.
Operating models for organizations that work across countries and languages: how HQ and field teams plan, budget, report and launch campaigns together.
What it covers
Typical formatOperating-model build · 6–12 weeks
03 · Conflict & mission
Start with
Turn the tug-of-war into a decision.
Structured, facilitated conflict resolution for the disagreements that keep coming back. Both sides leave with a solution they can own, not a compromise nobody wants.
Then, if you want more
What it covers
Typical formatFacilitated workshop · 1–2 days
04 · Donors & fundraising
Every touchpoint builds trust.
Donor journeys from the first brochure to the visit in Israel, plus the pipeline behind them: who is asked, by whom, when, and what happens next.
Then, if you want more
What it covers
Typical formatAudit + playbook · 4–8 weeks
05 · AI & operations
Start with
Real hours back, every week.
Practical AI for small and busy teams: faster materials in several languages, cleaner reporting and less admin, always with a human review on what goes out.
Then, if you want more
What it covers
Typical formatWorkshop or 30-day pilot
Workshops
Ready-to-run workshops, delivered by Uriel, in person or online, and adapted to your organization. Choose the question your team is facing; we shape the session around it.
2 hours
Senior team · 5–12 people
Most organizations push on everything at once. In two hours, your senior team agrees on the single limit that sets the pace of your impact.
What we’ll work through
What you leave withOne constraint, named and agreed by the team, and a focus plan for the next month.
Request a proposalHalf day · 3.5 hours
Board & management, or cross-department teams · 6–16 people
For the dilemma that keeps coming back. Both sides are heard, the real needs come to the surface, and the team finds a way forward that is not a compromise nobody wants.
What we’ll work through
What you leave withA shared picture of the conflict and an agreed way forward, with owners.
Request a proposalFull day · 6.5 hours
Managers & staff · 10–24 people
A practical day on how work really flows: map it, take out the waste, and put AI to work on the writing, reporting and donor communication your team repeats.
What we’ll work through
What you leave withA simpler process, a set of tested AI uses and a team guideline for using AI responsibly.
Request a proposalHalf day · 4 hours
Board + senior management · 6–16 people
A shared picture of the organization two years from now, clear enough to plan from.
What we’ll work through
What you leave withA one-page vision and three to five strategic priorities.
Request a proposalFull day · 6 hours
Management + department heads · 8–20 people
Turn the vision and the year’s priorities into a work plan people own, with the time and resources to deliver it.
What we’ll work through
What you leave withA draft annual work plan with owners, milestones and a review calendar.
Request a proposalHalf day · 3.5 hours
Board + leadership · 6–14 people
When the organization has grown, changed or drifted: agree again on who you serve and the change you exist to make.
What we’ll work through
What you leave withA mission sentence the whole team can say, and the choices that follow from it.
Request a proposalHalf day · 3.5 hours
Fundraising, resource development & marketing teams · 5–14 people
See your organization through your donors’ eyes, from first contact to long-term partner, and fix the stage where they slip away.
What we’ll work through
What you leave withA one-page donor journey map and a stewardship plan for the year.
Request a proposalToolkits
Ten short, printable guides. Each one explains a single method in plain language and comes with a worked example, a blank worksheet and facilitator tips. Toolkit #1 is free: download it, print it and use it with your team. Every other Toolkit has a free preview.
Toolkit #1
A practical, one-page method for resolving the chronic dilemmas of mission-driven organizations, without settling for a compromise nobody wants.
Free
Download PDF
Full pack — all 10 Toolkits
US$149
Case studies
Situations we see again and again in mission-driven organizations, and what we deliver when we are called in.
Selected work
Real projects from his career, described without budgets or names.
Global operations
Performance management
Process automation
Standard operating procedures
Partner networks as a channel
Operations · Handover
Strategy · Multi-country network
Convening · Leadership
Fundraising · AI-assisted
How we work
Good people inside a broken setup still get stuck. We fix the setup.
Find the one thing that limits everything else, and start there.
Every action item owned, every email answered, every loop closed.
Short cycles and fast replies, without trading away quality.
Honest numbers, honest timelines and work we are proud to sign.
Our toolkitWe work with the Theory of Constraints and practical AI tools, adapted to each organization.
What working together looks like
We listen, read and understand where the organization stands.
You leave withA clear summary of the situation.
Together, we define what needs solving first.
You leave withAn agreed objective.
We work with your team: the vision, the plan or the solution.
You leave withThe deliverable and the tools.
We stay with you through the first steps.
You leave withOwners, timelines and follow-up.
The thinking behind the work
An ongoing program of study across six areas that matter to mission-driven organizations. A few titles from the library behind our approach:
01
Why an organization exists, and how to say it so people repeat it.
02
How trust is earned, and how a message lands with busy people.
03
Running an engagement cleanly, from the first question to the final page.
04
Turning disagreement into a decision both sides can own.
05
Plans that hold in organizations that run on mission.
06
Practical AI, and the working habits that give real hours back.
Where we work
We work remotely and on site, across time zones, in English, Hebrew, Spanish and Portuguese.
Who you’ll work with
Founder & Principal
A Jewish professional with more than a decade inside the institutions he now advises: running regional desks, leading global marketing operations across markets and languages, and sitting with donors, partners and community leaders on several continents.
He holds an MA in Nonprofit Management and is a long-time student of the Theory of Constraints. What he enjoys most is taking a setup that has grown messy and rebuilding it so it runs clean.
“If something carries my name, it has to be right: precise, clean and finished.”
Keren Kayemet LeIsrael – JNF · Resource Development & External Affairs
Masa Israel Journey · worldwide markets, field teams and campaigns
Masa Israel Journey
World Bnei Akiva & World Mizrachi
The Jewish Agency (youth-movement counselor training) · Midreshet Lindenbaum · Yeshivat HaKotel
Before we get started
What organizations usually ask before the first conversation.
Both: from global networks to local nonprofits. The format adapts to the size and the moment of your team.
No. Often the first step is precisely finding where the bottleneck is.
Both. We work remotely and on site, across time zones.
English, Hebrew, Spanish and Portuguese.
Each proposal is built around the organization and the scope. Request a proposal and we will send you a concrete one.
No. We use it only where it saves real hours, never because it is trendy.
Contact
A plan that needs structure, a conflict that needs untangling, a team that wants to use AI well. Write to us in English, Hebrew, Spanish or Portuguese.