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Dan River Basin Association

We are helping this conservation nonprofit to create a business plan for a new earned income venture.

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Institute for Human Services – Hawaii

We conducted a fundraising assessment to help this housing and homeless nonprofit to increase revenue.
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Forté Foundation

We are helping this nonprofit that educates and directs talented women toward leadership roles in business to create a strategic plan and revenue plan.

 

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ACE: A Community for Education

We are working with this nonprofit, which provides AmeriCorp literacy tutors to pre-K through 3rd grade children, to develop a strategic plan.

 

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Communities in Schools – Central Texas

We are helping this dropout prevention nonprofit create a comprehensive strategic plan.

 

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Literacy Coalition

We helped this literacy organization develop a business plan for an earned income venture (read the case study here), and helped them launch a major donor campaign (read the case study here).

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Charlotte Chamber Music

We are helping this cultural arts organization create a strategic plan and a pitch to funders for capacity capital to execute the plan. Read our on-going blog series about our work with them here: A Case Study in Raising Money to Grow On.

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Catholic Charities

We helped this health and human services nonprofit create an agency-wide strategic plan.
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Sustainable Food Center

We helped this nonprofit, which strengthens the local food system and improves access to healthy food, create a business plan to increase earned income to the organization.
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BookSpring

We conducted an organizational assessment to determine what was holding this childhood literacy organization back, and what they could do to strengthen the organization and make it more effective and sustainable. Then we created a comprehensive revenue plan to increase money coming in the door.
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D2D Fund

We are working with this nonprofit, which expands access to financial services for low-income families, to create an organization-wide strategic plan.

 

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English at Work

We conducted a comprehensive organizational assessment detailing what was holding this English as a Second Language program back and how to increase their capacity. We then created a step-by-step revenue plan to increase money coming in the door from all sources. Read the full case study. We then went on to help English at Work create a growth plan and pitch for growth capital to help them expand their program throughout the region. Read that case study here.

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UT Elementary Charter School

We helped this inner-city charter school for at-risk students create a comprehensive revenue plan implementing new elements including donor acquisition, social media, and impact messaging.
Read the full case study.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas

We are working with this mentoring program in Central Texas to create a plan for growth and a pitch to investors for growth capital.

 

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Texas

We worked with their mentoring program for children of incarcerated parents to create a pitch to investors for growth capital. This was part of the Texas Social Innovation Initiative in partnership with Dallas Social Venture Partners, the OneStar Foundation, and Root Cause. They presented their pitch to 300 potential investors at the BigBang on June 10th, 2010 and received the audience award of $5,000. They are now taking their pitch to potential investors around Texas.

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H.I.S. Bridge Builders

We worked with the education and employment services arm of this nonprofit that serves the economically depressed areas of metro Dallas. We helped them create a pitch to investors for growth capital. This was part of the Texas Social Innovation Initiative. They are now using the growth pitch to get in front of potential funders throughout Dallas.

 

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Waterloo Counseling Center

We conducted a comprehensive assessment of all aspects of their revenue function and provided detailed strategies for increasing revenue across the board.
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Heart House

We helped this after-school program for at-risk children strengthen their plan to grow statewide. Then we created a pitch to take that growth plan to large investors. In the first few months of fundraising they have raised 32% of the growth capital required.
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The Chicago Public Education Fund

We helped this venture philanthropy fund create a comprehensive marketing plan to streamline their messaging in order to be more compelling to investors.

 

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Southwest Key Programs

We worked with the staff and board of this $60M+ nonprofit to create a 3-year, comprehensive strategic plan that fully integrates programs and operations in a new direction. We also helped them create a first-ever Development Director role and recruit a new, high-achieving revenue-generator.
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KLRU

We completely upgraded this PBS station’s fundraising and marketing functions, resulting in a $1.6 million increase in annual revenue.
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UT School of Law

We developed a detailed plan to increase revenue and participation rates in their annual fund.  In guiding them to implement the plan they have outperformed their counterparts by 18% despite the recession.
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ACTIVE Life Movement

We helped this nonprofit that increases childhood exercise and activity create a Business Development Director job description and recruit a star revenue-generator.