About Trellis Partners

Our Mission

We specialize in change leadership for the greater good.

Trellis Partners is committed to supporting the creation of a just and equitable society by helping nonprofits strengthen their operations, leadership, and culture to maximize impact on the critical issues of our day.

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About Trellis Partners

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Trellis Partners is a woman- and LGBTQ+-owned national consulting firm that works exclusively with nonprofits—of all sizes and in every issue area—to stabilize, strengthen, and scale their organizational infrastructures.

Principal Anna Prow combines unparalleled international nonprofit operations and executive experience on projects large and small, singular or systemic. Her background as a change-agent nonprofit COO allows her to deeply understand the demands on nonprofits and know the intricacies of every part of their infrastructure. She specializes in the integration of administration and programs to strengthen effectiveness.

Anna brings high EQ and appreciative inquiry to her work with nonprofits and excels at taking in what makes organizations special and amplifying their strengths. With a bias toward action, an enterprise-mindset, and both systems and design thinking, she delivers practical solutions that respect systems, relationships, and the user experience.

Our Values and Operating Principles

Helping build an inclusive culture in teams, organizations, and the world

We believe that by practicing our values in our work and local communities, we contribute to the change we want to see in the world – the creation of a just and equitable society.

VALUES

Value
How we practice it in our work/communities
How it supports the creation of a just, equitable society
Impact
 We strategically choose activities that maximize the likelihood of achieving desired results. Everything we do impacts the world around us so we must make careful choices.
Equity
 We hold ourselves and each other accountable for resisting bias and unfair norms, rules, and practices. Decisions based on equity produce sustainable results.
Compassion
 We seek to understand what is important to others and help them succeed in realizing it. Empathy and benevolence are intrinsic to justice.
Inclusion
 We share information liberally and encourage engagement. People deserve to inform conditions and decisions that affect them.
Diligence
 We are prudent in our decision making and weigh risk, costs, and benefits. Due diligence fosters accountability, fairness, and quality.
Integrity
 We do as we say. Honesty and reliability are essential for building trust.
Impact

We strategically choose activities that maximize the likelihood of achieving desired results.

Equity

We hold ourselves and each other accountable for resisting bias and unfair norms, rules, and practices.

Compassion

We seek to understand what is important to others and help them succeed in realizing it.

Inclusion

We share information liberally and encourage engagement.

Diligence

We are prudent in our decision making and weigh risk, costs, and benefits.

Integrity

We do as we say.

OPERATING PRINCIPLES

Both with our client organizations and in our Trellis Partners team, we:

Look for strengths in every situation

Expect complexity

Welcome diverse perspectives

Make the implicit explicit

Foster learning to achieve transformation

Respond to failure with a level head

Distinguish between urgency and importance

Create “forms that follow function”

  • Look for strengths in every situation
  • Expect complexity
  • Welcome diverse perspectives
  • Make the implicit explicit
  • Foster learning to achieve transformation
  • Respond to failure with a level head
  • Distinguish between urgency and importance
  • Create “forms that follow function”

What Our Clients Have to Say

“Anna was focused on not just whether or not the trains were running on time, but if we had the right schedule. Her work went beyond dealing with the immediate issue at hand and included exploring if an issue was symptomatic of a system that needed to be improved.”
- Brad B.
“Anna brought things that we never thought of – templates and tools – that we still use today. For example, she shared a template for a meeting structure that we still use. These tools seem little, but they have a huge impact.”
- Julie D.
“Anna is not afraid to grapple with difficulty, be wrong, or change her mind. She’s open to being influenced by others. Good leaders are willing to be changed by new information.”
- Liesl S.
“Anna has good sense of organizations, what they are about, what their cultures are like. She can be decisive. Yet, rather than making a lot of changes that may or may not have stuck, she took the time to make sure the actions she took synced with the organization.”
- Winnie S.
“Anna is more than capable. From the beginning, I was amazed that she could become an integral part of the management team so quickly and steady the organization through a tumultuous time.”
- David L.

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