We proudly produced a strategic plan for the Mary I. Gourley Foundation, a provider of direct financial assistance to over 1,000 college students since 1988. Read this project profile by clicking here.
Blackland Prairie Raptor Center Plans For Fundraising Success
Transitions among the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center’s founder, Executive Director, and board members have caused a need to shore up the Center’s fundraising expertise and capacity for sustainable success with a first focus on grants and corporate sponsorships of educational programs, and a secondary focus on the opportunity to better steward and increase funds from individual donors. A development committee of board members has been established to help guide and support an improved fundraising strategy and implementation, staffed by the newly named Executive Director.
With that, the Center has teamed with Project Partners to work through our “Infrastructure for Fundraising Success,” an assessment that will help identify opportunities and establish priorities. We will also conduct funder research, consider educational programming sponsorship levels, and coach the development committee members on the art and science of fundraising.
Change for any nonprofit can be hard, but it does provide the opportunity for board members to increase their engagement in the fundraising continuum. How can you best involve your key volunteers during times of transition?
Sixty & Better Adapting to Change Through Strategic Planning
The pandemic caused a huge shift in Sixty & Better’s program of work, a program of work that had helped define this organization’s mission for more than fifty years. With that, Sixty & Better’s leadership is adapting through a strategic planning process made possible by a Toolbox grant from the North Texas Community Foundation (NTCF).
Our work together will redefine the organization’s mission, the programming to achieve that mission, and the ensuing fundraising, communications/community engagement, board leadership, and administrative support necessary for success.
We are pleased to return to Sixty & Better (formerly Senior Citizens Services of Greater Tarrant County) for this fourth assignment, providing the new leadership team both historical data based on prior work before and after their rebranding, and the opportunity to focus on the plan for continued success in serving specific needs of older adults in our community.
We are proud to serve quite often as a partner for good through executive staff and board leadership transitions!
Create + Collaborate Strategizes for Sustainability and Growth
Founded in 2020, Create + Collaborate (C + Co) has seen a 57% growth in students served through their mentoring, leadership training, and life skills programming, and an overall financial growth of 91%. To support this tremendous growth, the Board of Directors created goals as part of its preliminary strategy work for 2023 and is now teaming with Project Partners to bring that process to a strategic plan in support of ongoing development and sustainability.
When the Founder and Executive Director of C + Co reached out to us as she was pondering her North Texas Community Foundation Toolbox Grant application, we immediately knew that we wanted the chance to work with her. She is a young, smart, innovative leader, dedicated to making a difference in the lives of youth and their families in Southeast Fort Worth.
We look forward to this good work together in one of our specialty cause areas – education and workforce development.
After Facility Expansion, The WARM Place Plans For the Future
Founded in 1989, The WARM Place provides a safe, compassionate space for children and their families grieving the death of a loved one. On the heels of a successful capital campaign and facility expansion, the organization is primed for a fresh look at the future.
When The WARM Place board chair reached out to us about possibly teaming to facilitate this strategic planning process, upon a recommendation by a mutual friend and Project Partners client, we jumped at the chance to partner with this outstanding nonprofit that has served many we know who have experienced the death of a loved one.
We will serve as the consultant and facilitator of the planning process and the board workshop. In addition, we will ensure delivery of the final plan document that includes organizational goals around five focus areas to include Board and Committees, Administration, Financial Stability/Fundraising, Community Impact, and Communications.
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