Solutions for Nonprofits and foundations, and socially responsible corporations
We provide high-quality and affordable consulting services to cause-related organizations, grantmakers and select corporations. Our services are customized to meet your unique needs and achieve the results that are important to your mission. Our approach is that you own the issues, and ultimately must own the solutions. Would you like discuss your needs? We can be reached by email.
Our services include:
Fundraising and Resource Development – Whether a start-up or a long-standing entity, we work to optimize your organization’s position to attract funding and maintain ongoing support. This includes diversifying your donor base, increasing your revenues, and building strong donor relationships. Services include:
- Designing tailored funding plans and strategies
- Training board members and volunteers to fundraise enthusiastically
- Developing effective marketing and media strategies
- Producing collateral materials including brochures, annual reports, and case statement
- Web development, e-philanthropy and emailing giving programs
- Selecting and implementing donor information systems
Organizational Development– We work with you to assess your organization’s performance and develop effective action plans. Services include:
- Diagnosis and assessment
- Management audit
- Environmental scan and situation analysis
- Stakeholder analysis and feedback
- Image enhancement positioning
- Leveraging partnerships and collaborations
- Organization lifecycle management
- Merger management
Real-World Planning – We encourage your organization to create its own future by helping staff and volunteer leadership envision that future, and develop strategies to realize it. Services include:
- Planning from the whole though appreciative inquiry
- Values and culture analysis
- Creating a shared vision
- Mission-based performance assessment
- Goal setting
- Identifying critical strategies
- Contingency planning
- Organizational alignment
- Developing meaningful feedback systems
Managing Vital Relationships – The difference between organizations that succeed and those that fail rest on the ability to form and sustain meaningful relations. Further, your success is inextricable linked to understanding the needs of your stakeholder and developing programs that fulfill those needs. Services include:
- Stakeholder analysis
- Developing volunteer and staff partnerships
- Eliminating role confusion
- Empowering relationship with funders
- Relationship fundraising and donor management
- Establishing and maintaining high trust intra-organizational relationships
- Managing individuals and teams for results
Building Critical Competencies – Organization capacity building is the essential ingredient to organizational success. We work with you to optimize your organization’s performance by enhancing core skills, person-to-person relationships, and communication among staff and volunteers. Services include:
- Managing real-world change
- Consensus building
- Facilitating and managing groups
- Developing effective listening skills
- Performance management
- Decision-making training
Leadership Support – We work with you to improve the ability of your volunteer Board and executive staff to effectively lead your organization in the 21st century. Services include:
- Board governance issues
- Leading vs. managing
- Eliminating board / senior staff role confusion
- Executive Director coaching
Crisis Management and Turnaround Implementation – Many organizations find themselves in financial crisis and forced to severely cut programs, layoff staff, manage creditors, negative press, angry stakeholders, and lingering contractual obligations. First, we work with you to immediately contain the crisis. Then, we help you develop a plan to manage the crisis in the short-term and to implement corrective actions to prevent the crisis from reoccurring. Services include:
- Quick assessment of the situation and development of a plan to contain the crisis
- Financial management including creditor demands and outstanding contractual obligations
- Communication strategies to understand and address the concerns of stakeholders, constituents, clients, funders, and staff
- Implementing workout strategies to resolve the underlying issues that caused the crisis
- Skills training for Board and staff to address the immediate challenges and prepare for the future
Would you like discuss your needs? We can be reached by email address. I live in Arlington, VA and am available anywhere in the U.S.
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