Customized Packages
Foundation Start-Up
Is your school district or school cluster interested in starting an education foundation to leverage resources and philanthropic dollars from the community? Start strong with the tools and training you need to ensure stability and long-term success. With more than 30 years of combined experience leading education foundations, we can help you engage your stakeholders and create an organization that will bring people together in support of kids.
Includes:
- Data collection: stakeholder surveys and interviews
- Board development strategy based on governance best practice
- Setting your mission, vision and strategic direction
- Creating a financial infrastructure including budgeting, and reporting
- Resource development planning including database set-up and development, donor stewardship protocols and campaign planning.
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Foundation Relaunch
Does your district or school cluster have an existing education foundation with untapped potential? Have you experienced a change in district or foundation leadership that has provided an opportunity to revisit your strategy? Are you looking to better align the foundation’s work with the needs of your students, district and community? We can help your foundation articulate where you want to go and help build a roadmap to get there.
Includes:
- A high-level organizational assessment and summary of key findings
- Data collection: facilitation of stakeholder surveys and interviews
- A board development strategy and tools based on governance best practice
- Honing your mission, vision, and creating a strategic roadmap
- Assessment of financial infrastructure with recommendations for strengthening your budgeting and reporting tools and processes
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Foundation Tune-Up
Is your foundation operating smoothly but facing certain areas that need improvement? Are you ready to ensure that your foundation is fully equipped for growth and increased impact? If this sounds like your organization, our Foundation Tune-Up service might be just what you need.
After an initial assessment, we will tailor our services to meet your specific requirements.
Our services may include:
- Enhancing board efficiency and effectiveness
- Creating or updating operational processes and procedures
- Assessing and recreating a staffing structure
- Revamping or revising resource development strategies
- Clarifying organizational identity
- Annual and/or strategic planning