AB Christian Learning Center to Develop a Roadmap For Continued Success

AB Christian Learning Center (ABCLC) is a faith-based, nonprofit organization with a mission to strengthen and improve the academic performance of all youth by taking a holistic approach to addressing their needs. ABCLC has operated in Fort Worth since 2006 with visionary, hands-on leadership from its Founder and Executive Director. 

Thanks to a Toolbox Grant from the North Texas Community Foundation, Project Partners will provide consulting and strategic planning facilitation to help the Executive Director and her board.  Together, we will identify long-term strategic goals and short-term objectives for operations and programming, using stakeholder input and needs data. The results of this good work together will be a five-year strategic plan to help assure ongoing success for ABCLC’s important mission.

We have long admired the founding Executive Director’s servant-leadership across our community, including collaborative initiatives such as Strategic Pathways to Student Success, which we helped direct for the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.  We are so glad to be teaming with her directly for the benefit of AB Christian Learning Center and the families they serve!

Open Arms Health Clinic Looks to the Future

Founded in 2011, Open Arms Health Clinic (OAHC), has served more than 4,000 people to date, most of whom are considered the working poor, as they are employed (thus not eligible for most assistance programs) but in great need of help. That service to the community has been made possible through the generosity of more than 60 volunteers to date and many incredible community partners.

Thanks to a ToolBox Grant from the North Texas Community Foundation, we have been invited to work with the founding Executive Director and Board (all volunteers!) to develop a strategic plan for the organization that will help to sustain and grow their mission, which is so needed in the community.

We love helping nonprofit leaders put the structures in place to help them thrive, so that they can focus on amazing service delivery and programs!

Lucky #13 it is!

Lucky #13 it is! 

 June 1 marked the beginning of a thirteenth year of work together with the HEB ISD Education Foundation, and we are proud to be teaming again with this thriving nonprofit whose sole mission is to support HEB ISD’s excellence in education.  We’ve had the pleasure to serve education foundations in Irving, Fort Worth, Plano, Birdville, Marble Falls, and Arlington, but few compare with the outstanding board, community, donor, and district engagement found within the HEB ISD Education Foundation. 

 Through more than a decade of work together, Project Partners has helped provide consistent results through three superintendents, six board chairs, and now thirteen volunteer boards of directors.  How lucky are we? 

Foundation Staff to Meet, with a Focus on Values

Our friends at the Rainwater Charitable Foundation (RCF) are gathering all staff members and their Board Chair for a day of work and community building, with a unique focus on organizational values and how best to live out those values.  Isn’t that a wonderful way for a team to stay centered and mission-minded?  We really look forward to facilitating the conversations and introducing a very experiential opening exercise led by Todd McCann of Rhythm4u.   Thanks, RCF, for calling on us!   

We absolutely love to serve returning clients.  How can we become your partner for good? 

Community Healthcare of Texas to Equip Board Members

The incredible Community Healthcare of Texas (CHOT) development team – raising more than $842,000 annually over a geographic service area of 25 counties and 9 locations - is very small (a team of two) and must depend on board volunteer resources to continue retaining and attracting funding to support the mission of CHOT.  Individual giving is at the heart of CHOT fund development, as it should be.  

The goal of our work together this year, funded by a Toolbox grant from the North Texas Community Foundation (NTCF), is to better equip the board to be fundraising-ready for retention and acquisition of donors through a relationship-building portfolio model, which could then be duplicated with fund development ambassadors across CHOT’s service area.  This will be our second assignment with CHOT, and we are very excited to work again with these pros and their board members. 

We are so fortunate to serve the vast majority of our clients for multiple years and/or multiple projects!