About Mission Possible
Started in 2014, Mission Possible has worked with multiple nonprofits outsourcing their Chief Operating Officer, allowing them the space to create their change in this world. In 2024, we became a nonprofit in our own right: with the mission to help other charities run. We advise on operations, finances, governance, and policy operations. From incorporation to dissolution and everything in between, we're client-focused and result-oriented. Mission Possible is here to support you.
You're doing great things. You don't have to do it alone.
Meet the Team
About Cortney
Founder & CEO
Cortney brings a wealth of international and cross-border experience in nonprofit management, operations, financial management, governance, and culture implementation.
After completing her B.A. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Cortney obtained her law degree and LL.M. in London at City University Law School with a focus in criminal legal aid.
While in law school, Cortney began volunteering with an international, human rights nonprofit. Once graduated, she joined the team representing Guantánamo Bay detainees and drone strike victims and their families in Pakistan, as well as creating operational systems, learning fundraising, and assisting with communications. From there, she helped manage and run an anti-death penalty organization in Houston, Texas, working across fundraising, communications, finances, governance, and operations departments. She was then hired to reactivate the dormant sister 501(c)(3) to the UK organization she worked with in London.
In 2016, Cortney started and served as Executive Director for a grant-making foundation gifting to charities around the world as well as managing over 32 501(c)(3) clients. In 2021, she became Chief Operating Officer at Material Innovation Initiative - a global nonprofit with staff around the world.
Cortney always works with Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) in mind. She is certified as a Global Professional in Human Resources by the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI) and holds certifications in Inclusive Leadership and D&I Human Resources Management. She has also received a certificate from TSNE MissionWorks and Institute for Nonprofit Practice Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Nonprofit Consultants as part of their first-ever cohort.
Now, Cortney works with nonprofits around the world, helping them set up and manage their nonprofits, creating and implementing systems and policies, assisting with governance and human resources, and helping with finances and financial reporting.
With experience in issue campaigning and advocacy, she started Mission Possible to help causes meet their missions.
About Jen
Chief Financial Officer
Jennifer Barget, M.Sc. is a finance and growth-focused executive with more than 20 years of experience scaling budgets, grant portfolios, and organizational capacity across the nonprofit and international development sectors. She currently serves as Chief Financial Officer of Mission Possible Nonprofits.
What distinguishes Jen's approach to the CFO role is the vantage point she brings to it: having led multiple nonprofit organizations as the top executive — as CEO, Executive Director, and COO, in addition to CFO — she understands financial strategy not just from the finance function, but from the perspective of the person ultimately accountable for the mission, the board, and the organization's growth. That dual perspective shapes how she builds financial systems: not as a back-office function, but as the infrastructure that lets an organization scale responsibly.
Her track record bears this out. As Executive Director of the Pacific Council on International Policy, she expanded the program portfolio from $2.5M to $7M and grew the team from 12 to 24 staff, while instituting performance-linked budgeting and multi-year strategic planning. As CEO of Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, she led a 100-plus staff organization through a multi-year organizational transition. And in interim COO leadership at Arizona State University, she brought that same cross-functional financial and operational discipline to a higher-education setting.
Jen holds an M.Sc. in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.B.A. from George Washington University. She is fluent in French and Haitian Creole, with basic/novice proficiency in Arabic.
Contact us today to learn how Mission Possible Nonprofits can help you.