Customized Packages
Foundation Start-Up
Is your school district or school cluster exploring the creation of an education foundation to leverage community resources and philanthropic support? 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 stakeholders and build an organization that unites your community in support of students.
Includes:
- Data collection through stakeholder surveys and interviews
- A board development strategy grounded in governance best practices
- Defining your mission, vision, and strategic direction
- Establishing a financial infrastructure, including budgeting and reporting
- Resource development planning, including database setup, donor stewardship protocols, and campaign planning.
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Foundation Relaunch
Does your district have an existing education foundation with untapped potential? Has a recent change in district or foundation leadership created an opportunity to revisit your strategy? Are you seeking stronger alignment between your foundation’s work and the needs of your students, district and community? We can help your foundation define where it’s headed, and build a clear roadmap to get there.
Includes:
- A high-level organizational assessment with a summary of key findings
- Data collection through facilitated stakeholder surveys and interviews
- A board development strategy and tools grounded in governance best practices
- Refinement of your mission and vision, and creation of a strategic roadmap
- An assessment of financial infrastructure with recommendations to strengthen budgeting and reporting systems
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Foundation Tune-Up
Is your education foundation running well overall, but experiencing a few areas that could be stronger? Are you ready to position your organization for sustainable growth and greater impact? If so, our Foundation Tune-Up service may be the perfect fit.
Following an initial assessment, we tailor our work to address your foundation’s unique needs.
Our services may include:
- Strengthening board efficiency and effectiveness
- Developing or refining operational processes and procedures
- Evaluating and redesigning staffing structure
- Refreshing or enhancing resource development strategies
- Clarifying mission, vision and values
- Facilitating annual and/or strategic planning
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Our Qualifications
- More than 20 years of education foundation leadership.
- Raised more than 12 million to support public school students.
- Robin Callahan served as the executive director of the Issaquah Schools Foundation from 2000-2016, She was executive director of the National Association of Education Foundations (formerly NSFA) from 2016-2019 and co-chaired NSFA’s National Standards Task Force to create the industry’s first national standards. Robin was part of the first cohort of executive directors to complete the training to become a Certified Education Foundation Leader (CEFL) and is currently an instructor in NAEF’s CEFL program. She served on the National Advisory Board of American School Foundation Alliance from 2013-2015 and was co-founder and co-chair of the Washington Public Schools Foundation Network from 2006-2016.
- The Callahan Collaborative team works with school districts and education foundations across the country in communities like Fairfax VA, Charleston SC, Tacoma WA, Great Falls MT, Hobbs NM, and Snohomish WA to start and grow education foundations.