Strengthening and Sustaining Community Based Organizations
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L P Coleman Contracting Services understands the unique challenges nonprofit and faith based organizations face trying to maintain operations and manage strategic growth. Our capacity-building activities are designed to increase the organization’s sustainability and effectiveness, enhance its ability to provide community based services to respond to the needs of its community, diversify its funding sources, and engage and collaborate with other community stakeholders.
We have the expertise to help you address issues that are critical to your long-term viability so that you are better prepared and positioned to understand the needs of your community and provide essential services to address those needs.
We work with nonprofit and faith based organizations to build and strengthen their capacity in five key areas:
Call today for more information or to schedule a consultation.
Laura Coleman, Principal
L P Coleman Contracting Services, LLC
Telephone: 603-645-6742 / Fax: 603-584-9184
Email: info@lpcolemancontracting.com
Website: www.lpcolemancontracting.com
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Leadership Development
Coordinating and facilitating Board retreats
Coordinating and facilitating Board training
Roles and responsibilities of Boards
Phases and types of Boards
Board Committees
Developing a Board Calendar
Developing strong relationships and communication between Board and staff
Developing strategic action plans
Peer coaching
Conducting staff capacity inventory and mapping
Coordinating and facilitating staff development training
Time management
Effective management strategies
Managing multiple deadlines and priorities
Problem solving and decision-making
Managing meetings
Conducting effective meetings
Assessing internal staff and Board communication systems
Building integrated and effective communication systems between staff, consultants, and external partners
Professional development in the use of data for organizational improvement, assessment development, curricular alignment, and program evaluation
Organizational Development
Building and strengthening organizational operating and management systems
Developing the mission, goals and strategies of an organization
Strategic planning
Developing business plans
Conducting feasibility and market analysis
Long-term growth and management planning
Analyzing the organization's flow and developing organization charts
Organizational gap analysis
Organizational change management
Recommendations for organizational change
Operating, management and communication systems gap analysis and evaluation
Membership recruitment and retention
Volunteer recruitment, retention and recognition
Peer learning and networking
Developing policies and procedure manuals
Developing job descriptions
Strategic communications and marketing
Conducting public relations campaigns and events
Designing and implementing advertising campaigns
Content and design of press releases, publications, newsletters, brochures, exhibits, reports and other materials
Coordinating work with outside teams
Building effective media relations
Developing strategic communications plans
Fund Development
Conducting grant research
Grant writing
Managing grant projects
Developing and implementing grant management systems
Monitoring grant submissions
Monitoring grant awards
Grant reporting
Inkind tracking
Resource development
Mapping internal resources
Leveraging internal resources
Mapping external resources
Mapping community assets
Leveraging community and partner resources
Building relationships with funders
Planning and implementing fundraising campaigns
Social enterprising
Financial and economic impact analysis
Program and Services
Program impact analysis
Program design and development
Developing integrated and coordinated systems of care
Developing program monitoring systems
Developing program evaluation systems
Conducting program evaluation
Evaluating program, service, community, and organizational outcomes
Participatory empowerment evaluation
Outcomes evaluation of grants
Staff development training in empowerment outcomes
Site-based research projects
Complex quantitative analyses
Categorical modeling, and qualitative design and analysis
IT development for the management and dissemination of research and evaluation data and findings
Development of educational assessment materials and psychometric validation of those materials
Community Engagement
Conducting community strategic service planning
Conducting community needs assessments
Completing community benefit plans and reports
Facilitating community meetings
Organizing community committees
Developing integrated service networks
Rural health care planning
Conducting focus groups
Conducting community health planning research and analysis
Community development
Grassroots organizing
Establishing community and youth councils