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Olson Analytics · New Hampshire

An embedded operations practice for nonprofits and public agencies.

I join your team, take ownership of real operations, and stay as long as I'm useful.

Engagements start small: one program, one system, one problem that needs an owner.

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How I work

I embed: I join your team, learn your systems and your people, and take ownership of work with a deadline attached. Some organizations keep me around for years. Others have me build a system, run it until it's smooth, and hand it off. Both work, and you don't have to choose up front.

What that looks like

  1. Run the systems your programs depend on: grant management, data, reporting
  2. Own recurring operations: reporting cycles, compliance deadlines, data requests
  3. Facilitate working groups and committees, from formation to real decisions
  4. Build automations that turn day-long tasks into minutes
  5. Fix the processes that keep getting pushed to next quarter
  6. Write the documentation so the knowledge stays when people move on

The work

2022 → present New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority

In late 2022, the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority hired me to support one program, the Community Navigators Pilot Program. Being inside the work surfaced the next opportunity, and the next: today the work spans their grant management system, program reporting, process improvement, facilitation, and documentation. That's the usual arc. I join to take one specific problem off a team's plate, and being embedded shows us both where else I can help.

  1. Built automations inside the grant management system that turned recurring reporting setup from hours into minutes
  2. Facilitated the ReGen Valley Data Advisory Committee from formation through its first working decisions
  3. Mapped and analyzed the grant application process end to end with the staff who run it
Where it started City Year · NH, Providence, Boston, Tulsa, Seattle

City Year is where I started, three years in New Hampshire as a corps member, senior corps member, and VISTA. Years later, sites in Providence, Boston, Tulsa, and Seattle brought me in to carry their analytics when they needed that capacity. Different systems, different cities, same job: join the team, own the operation, keep the programs running.

About

Olson Analytics is one person: me, Nate Olson. I came up through engineering and process improvement, and I do my best work inside organizations, next to the people who use the systems every day. I'm based in New Hampshire and the work is rooted here. If the practice sounds small, that's the design: you get the person you talked to.

Contact

If this sounds like a fit, email me. A few lines about your organization and what you're carrying is plenty.