My Services

Leadership Coaching & Interim

With years of experience on nonprofit Boards, including as President and Treasurer, and experience in a number of nonprofit leadership roles including Executive Director, I have seen every aspect of nonprofit operations. I can help your leaders succeed by assisting them in a variety of areas, including:

• Executive Coaching: General help in reaching your potential as a nonprofit leader. A discreet and trusted confidant and advisor when you need one.

• Strategic Planning: I’ve seen what works and know how to build plans that can be executed to increase impact and overall success.

• Board Development: A great Board helps to create a great organization. I can help you assemble the Board your organization needs and deserves.

• Team Building: Your leadership team and your line staff will dictate the success and impact of your organization. I will help you define roles and procedures to help you team operate with maximum efficiency and minimal friction.

• Interim Leadership: Sometimes you need someone…NOW. I can serve as an Interim Executive Director, Development Director, Operations or Marketing/Communications Director. This work often includes assistance in finding permanent team members. When you need someone to hit the ground running, and step aside at the right time, I am ready to help.

Marketing & Communications

There are more than a million nonprofit organizations in the United States, and every one of them needs to tell its story, find clients, solicit donations, sell services, and encourage its volunteers. But hardly any have a marketing department, and many have serious challenges in meeting their communications and marketing goals.

I provide these marketing services:

• Branding

• Marketing plans

• Digital and Social Marketing

• Event Planning and Promotion

• Direct Mail Planning and Execution

• Mar/Com Workshops

• Press Releases

• White Papers

• Communications Strategies for Board Members

• Crisis Communications

• Communications Effectiveness Measurement

Development & Fundraising

For many community-based organizations, the best predictor of their success is their bank balance. Finding foundations whose missions are aligned with yours, and writing effective grants proposals are key to obtaining institutional funding. I am experienced in annual appeal design and execution, fund-raising events, and cultivating individual donors at all levels of giving.

Let me help with:

• Donor Research

• Grant writing

• Fund-raising event planning and presentation

• Establishing equity acceptance programs

• Developing in-kind donors

• Fund-raising from high-value donors

• Working with Government funders

For many nonprofit organizations, a Social Enterprise (SE) can bring in essential revenue, create workforce development opportunities, and show funders that the organization is doing all it can to attain sustainability.

In many ways, a social enterprise is just like any other business – you provide services or products for a price, and you pay your employees, landlord, utilities, vendors, and others. But in many ways a social enterprise is substantially different from other businesses. When run by a nonprofit, a SE can provide untaxed revenue. Instead of borrowing money, it can seek and receive grants. Many government contracts favor social enterprises. And the public overwhelmingly prefers to patronize business that they see as benefiting the community.

I can help you with these aspects of establishing and running a social enterprise:

• Business planning

• Raising startup and continuing grants

• Program Evaluation

• Collaborations and partnerships.

• Real estate issues

• Building your SE management team

• Personnel planning management

• Marketing, advertising, and sales

• Merchandising