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“What sets Paradigm apart is their
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Holly Ingraham, Treasurer
Innovative Technology Education Fund and the University of Missouri – St. Louis |
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Organizational/Fundraising Assessments
Feel like you are always doing more with less? Paradigm Shift Studio’s
in-depth assessments provide insight on improving your ability to
raise funds, maximize staff and volunteer effectiveness, and create
long-term organizational stability.
We help you:
- Assess and Build Capacity
- Assess Fundraising Methods
- Position and Market your Organization
- Develop and Evaluate Programs
Case Study: Leveraging Your Strengths: Good
Shepherd’s organizational and fundraising assessment
The Situation
Good Shepherd School For Children hired Paradigm Shift Studio to assess
the development efforts of the school and create a plan to build capacity
for long-term sustainability. Although the school had a strong fundraising
base, it had only one full-time development professional and needed
to maximize its efforts for the greatest return.
What We Did
Paradigm Shift Studio conducted an organizational assessment, focusing
on the following areas:
- Programs, physical facilities, and operating systems;
- Budgets and diversity of revenue sources;
- Development personnel;
- Special events and fundraising effectiveness;
- Board perceptions, spheres of influence, diversity, and training
needs.
We also:
- Researched potential foundation partners;
- Wrote program grants;
- Secured additional funds from previously untapped sources.
Outcomes
As a result of the assessment, Good Shepherd School immediately generated
additional revenue through foundation grants, a new corporate sponsorship
program and a new planned giving/endowment program. Overall, the organization
gained a new perspective on its unique existing strengths and learned
how to build on those strengths to better leverage its efforts. Board
members became a more cohesive “team” and better prepared
to make an ask. The Emeritus Board has been actively re-engaged, and
the Executive Director moved into a more active role in planned giving
and endowment-building.
The result speaks for itself: several new, larger gifts. |
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