Venture: VillageReach
VillageReach develops, implements, and scales innovations to address key barriers at the “last mile” of healthcare delivery.
Expert: Andy Kaplan
CFO at DonorsChoose
• CFO Audible
• CFO Thomson Reuters
• CFO Time Life
VillageReach partnered with Rippleworks to develop financial reporting and planning to monitor short- and long-term health
VillageReach develops, implements, and scales innovations to address key barriers at the “last mile” of healthcare delivery. VillageReach programs currently reach over 20 million people across multiple countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
VillageReach’s top priority was to implement rigorous financial reporting across the organization to support strategic decision-making and monitor short-term and long-term health. VillageReach partnered with Rippleworks to design best-in-class financial reporting processes required to generate top-priority reports in a repeatable way.
Developing a set of finance KPIs that provided our leadership with a 360° view of our financial health was the entry-point to prioritizing the most important operational processes to keep up with growth.
We now know how to measure that we are keeping the wheels on as we grow our impact.
— VillageReach President Emily Bancroft
VillageReach partnered with Rippleworks Expert Andy Kaplan, who has served as the CFO of top companies such as Thomson Reuters, Time Life, Audible, and DonorsChoose. Together they:
• Learned industry best practices to design and build 6 reports to track performance against the organization’s top-priority KPIs
• Conducted comprehensive review of today’s state of reporting and built action plan for dramatically improving HQ and field office finance team operations to support reporting
• Designed future-state finance team structure to support both upcoming personnel changes and growth goals
