ABOUT RELEVANT STRATEGIES
Expertise, in service of your mission.
Relevant Strategies pairs deep professional experience with a practical understanding of nonprofit work. We bring together the financial side of your organization and the strategic side so you have the right person for the question in front of you.
Our clients do difficult, important work. Our role is to bring clarity, structure, and experienced judgment when the organization needs additional capacity or an objective perspective.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
Experienced professionals doing the work.
Relevant Strategies is intentionally hands-on. Clients work directly with experienced professionals who can understand the organization, explain what matters, and stay close to the work from question through implementation.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Kerry A. White, MBA, CPA
Nonprofit Finance & Advisory
Kerry leads Relevant Strategies’ accounting, tax, and advisory practice. A CPA with an MBA in finance, she has spent nearly 30 years helping organizations understand their numbers, strengthen financial oversight, and make difficult decisions with greater confidence.
Her experience spans public accounting, nonprofits and affordable housing, government finance, investment operations, and executive leadership. Prior roles include CFO, COO, Assistant Chief Investment Officer, Finance Director, CPA practice owner, and accounting instructor.
Kerry helps nonprofit leaders and boards move beyond receiving financial statements to understanding what those statements mean for programs, staffing, reserves, risk, and the choices ahead.
Kerry holds CPA licenses in Arizona, California, and Washington.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
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American Institue of CPAs
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Arizona Society of CPAs
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California Society of CPAs
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Washington Society of CPAs
VOLUNTEER LEARDERSHIP
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Phoenix Metro Bicycle Club - Treasurer
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Arizona Bicycle Club - Past President and Treasurer
FOUNDER
Porsche Everson, MBA
Strategic Facilitation
Porsche founded Relevant Strategies in 2011 and continues to lead its strategic facilitation and governance work. A mathematician and statistician by training, with an MBA in technology and innovation management, she has built a career across software development, research, project management, data analysis, and executive leadership.
She guides organizations through complex, high-stakes work that depends on bringing people together: strategic decisions, stakeholder-intensive initiatives, process change, quality oversight, and organizational planning.
Porsche’s approach is structured, evidence-based, and grounded in the belief that durable outcomes begin with a fair process, clear information, and a serious effort to understand the interests behind competing positions.
COMPLEMENTARY EXPERTISE
Not two unrelated services under one roof.
Financial information often sits at the center of strategic choices. Strategic decisions, in turn, determine what an organization must budget, measure, govern, and sustain.
Finance creates a reliable foundation
Good information makes the real choices visible and helps leaders understand the consequences attached to them.
Reliable accounting and reporting
Tax, governance, and control awareness
Data connected to programs and priorities
UNDERSTANDING
BECOMES
ACTION
Facilitation creates a workable path.
A fair, structured process helps people evaluate the evidence, surface priorites, and move toward a durable solution.
The right voices and information in the room
Shared interest separated from fixed positions
Clear decisions, ownership, and next steps
FROM
Information
THROUGH
Understanding
TO
Action
Principles that hold across every engagement.
Whether the work begins with a monthly close, a board question, a systems problem, or a difficult strategic decision, these commitments shape how Relevant Strategies approaches it.
Mission first
We measure success by the progress your organization makes, not only by the books we close or the reports we deliver.
Numbers mean something
Accurate books are the floor. The real value is in what the numbers tell you about the choices ahead.
A true partner
We complement your team and your auditor, support what already works, and avoid creating unnecessary complexity.
Clear communication
Technical work has limited value unless people can understand it. We explain findings, choices, and recommendations in language suited to the people who will use them.
The long view
We build financial footing and decision-making capacity that last through growth, leadership transitions, and everything in between.
2011
A PRACTICE WITH ROOTS
BUILT FOR CLOSE PARTHERSHIP
Experienced professionals. Real attention.
Practical recommendations.
Relevant Strategies has worked alongside mission-driven organizations since 2011. The firm was built around an all-in philosophy: experienced professionals doing the work, close attention to the organization, and recommendations grounded in the client’s real circumstances rather than a generic framework.
That philosophy continues to guide the practice today.