Ilona de Jongh

Streamline operations so you can focus on your mission

Mission

Provide mission-aligned operational infrastructure for bio-regionally grounded organizations, reducing fragmentation and enabling collaborative wealth building.

What I Offer

Support systems that fit your mission for organizations rooted in local ecosystems. I bring scattered efforts together and help groups build value side by side.

Theory of Change

If we provide operational infrastructure that reflects mission values from the start,

Then organizations will make fewer choices that contradict their purpose,

Because daily operations shape behavior more than mission statements alone.

Bio

Ilona's journey began in the Caribbean where they developed their innate problem-solving skills amidst nature's beauty. Equipped with a Master's in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology, they have become a visionary in purpose-driven design, operations, and social impact.

Their global influence spans three continents, where they have founded, advised, and scaled social enterprises, authored impactful publications, and nurtured groundbreaking nonprofits like Green Bronx Machine. Ilona's work epitomizes the fusion of creative design and social responsibility.

Recognized in prestigious design publications and exhibited in museums worldwide, Ilona's contributions reflect their unwavering commitment to harnessing design as a powerful force for positive change. Their career is a testament to the transformative potential of innovative thinking in addressing global challenges.

Every project they undertake is guided by a single conviction: organizations must serve communities and ecosystems, not just profit. They seek partnerships that dissolve the false divide between economic vitality and social wellbeing, that recognize culture and environment as inseparable, and that embrace the understanding that lasting success lifts everyone.

If you're building something that shares this vision, reach out. Together, we can do even more.

Operation Offerings Include:

• Workflow Design & Optimization: Streamline team operations so you can focus on the mission.
• Tech Stack Optimization: Choose tools that work for your budget and capacity.
• Value Alignment Checks: Ensure that daily actions align with your values: E.g. mission-aligned vendors, non-extractive software, community bank.
• Tracking Impact and Results: Measure what matters without extra paperwork.
• Planning Resources and Workload: Match people, money, and time to what matters most.
• Fractional Business Manager Services
  • Financial administration
  • Meeting coordination
  • Record keeping
  • Vendor & Contract Management

Ways We Can Work Together

• Project-based
• Fractional (20 hrs/mo)

Sliding Scale Pricing

• Redistribution Rate
  • $10k+/project or $9,000/mo
• Full Fee
  • $7k+/project or $5,000/mo
• Supported
  • $4k+/project or $3,000/mo
• Solidarity
  • $2k+/project or $1,500/mo
• Movement Gift or Barter