Strategy Refreshes
Backed by Exceptional Measurement
Reducing stress and adding value for corporate community impact leaders since 2021.
Better Next, LLC
Coroporate Comunity Impact leaders collaborate with nonprofit/NGOs through program funding, volunteering, thought leadership, and more.
Strategy Refresh Services
Are you feeling too stretched to take on one more project? Bring in reinforcements!
One Sprint
$1,500
half-day
Testing support: rapid benchmarking, research, or impromptu facilitation.
Recommended
One Quarter
$9,000
per month
Customized support: team brainstorm facilitation, creative, benchmarking, metrics, and recommendations.
One Year
$7,000
per month
Sustained support: multiple faciliations, creative, research, analysis, benchmarking, recommendations, vetting, metrics, and implementation.
Selected Companies Better Next Has Served
More than 50 corporate leaders have trusted Better Next, combined across clients
You could be next!
“Better Next facilitated a strategy update that allowed our Stewardship team to explore potential new areas of impact while sustaining what was working well. Carmen saved us the stress of undertaking a refresh without outside support!”
—Senior Director of Corporate Giving, F100 company
“Carmen was a game changer for our organization. Leveraging deep industry
expertise she translated our needs to a clear vision and strategy with
the ability to advise us all the way down to operational execution. Her
passion for driving societal impact was infectious across our team.”—David Evetts, EVP, USAA
“I’ve gone back and back to your spreadsheet probably 50 times since the beginning of the year... just a quick note to validate the work you did for us. It's been a lifesaver!”
—VP, Impact and Evaluation
“I highly recommend Carmen…she is gifted in her measurement work and she is an even better person. In short, she is a winner!”
— Doug Conant, former CEO, Campbell Soup Co.
“Carmen was on it! Her expertise and partnership helped us evolve and focus our social good efforts.”
— VP, Marketing
“Carmen brings a creativity to her approach that is simultaneously practical,
innovative, and enlightening. Everyone who works with her wants more
time with her passion and more of her insights!”— Kari Niedfeldt-Thomas, former MD, CECP
Founder Biography
Carmen Perez is an impact sector renaissance woman with 20 years of experience in the business of change.
She has advised hundreds of corporate changemakers on their strategy and measurement helping them loosen tight challenges and level up their results. She’s gone from Analyst to Senior Director and from Community Organizer to CEO. Carmen is a seer with rolled-up-sleeves.
After working at six organizations under twelve titles on her professional journey, she became her own boss in 2021 as Founder and Chief Impact Officer of Better Next, LLC. She is prolific in mastering diverse methods to catalyze change including research, consulting, network building, metrics and data, and speaking. Research: she authored or contributed to over 15 thought leadership reports. Consulting: she provided over 6,000 hours of expertise to corporate leaders from Chevron, Discovery Education, Impossible Foods, Intel, Regeneron, USAA, and more. Network building: she launched and facilitated a global network of 15 peer organizations. Metrics and data: she gathered stakeholder input for and designed an S in ESG metric used by the World Economic Forum’s Common Metrics: Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism. Speaking: she presented at more than 50 in-person and virtual events. She started her career in nonprofit financial counseling and microcredit, including launching and serving as founding CEO of a community-based credit union.
She holds a Master of Public Administration (MPA) in Nonprofit Financial Management from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in International Studies, Political Science, and French from the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.
Carmen, her husband, and two kids love living in New Rochelle, just 30 minutes from NYC’s Grand Central Station.
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