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Services

Dream Makers Creative Consulting works directly with chief executives, senior managers, and
board members providing support in key impact areas including:

Strategic Planning and Restructuring

Ensure that your organization's mission, programs and services are appropriate and being delivered in the best way under todays current market conditions. Our consultants work with your agency to prepare for future challenges and opportunities assisting in the development of a comprehensive strategic plan for a sustainable future.

Turnaround Services

Increasingly, nonprofit organizations are finding themselves in a financial or leadership crisis. Many are exploring mergers and other strategic restructurings. With 30 years of turnaround experience DMCC can assist organizations by creating a plan to go from a developing to excelling nonprofit by taking a look at all the areas that impact success: Management, Board, Resource Development, HR, Staff Retention, Technology, Facilities, Programs and Finance.

Our approach is involving and working with board, management, and staff to assess current status, identify core issues, and create strategies for the next moves in the organization's life cycle. Our experience allows us to help organizations through change managing expectations, facilitating the change process, and communicating to key constituents.

A typical restructuring or turnaround effort often includes the following:

Organizational Stages of Development & Assessment

DMCC consultants can provide management, board, resource development, personnel, staff retention, technology, facilities, programs and financial assessments, identify problem areas, and recommend changes. We assist leadership and the board to make positive, thoughtful adjustments, enhancing the performance and effectiveness of the institution into having a sustainable future. By creating an organizational development plan, you move closer to becoming an excelling organization.
Board Engagement

Many organizational challenges are the result of board member and leadership involvement related to them fulfilling basic board roles and responsibilities. Our turnaround specialists work closely with the board and CEO to create a plan for “Securing the Future” of an organization. We enhance knowledge of "must do" board and staff, clarifying their roles and responsibilities. We place a focus on fiscal, governance accountability.
Leadership

With many nonprofits positioned to lose key leadership over the next five years, organizations are faced with making a difficult evolution of replacing the talent pool without devastating its future and the challenges they will face moving forward. We help CEO's increase their strengths and abilities through our Executive Leadership coaching and workshops.

Board Development and Governance

Review your board's structure, set priorities, establish the appropriate roles and responsibilities for changing organizational demands, and develop a governance model that fits. We help board members understand their fiduciary and fundraising roles, create board development processes, and foster constructive relationships between the board and CEO/Executive Director.

Fund Development and Resources

Diversify funding strategies, develop effective appeals, engage individual donors, make the corporate connection, identifying new prospects and provide upgrade opportunity models for annual donors. Our consultants helps you design and implement long range fund development strategies and train or coach the board and staff on their fundraising role and techniques. This is the "creative" side of DMCC.

We help create financially stable and sustainable nonprofits through our particular focus on annual support initiatives. We assess existing fundraising programs, map a course to diversify funding sources and significantly increase fundraising performance. We help organizations construct more balanced internal philanthropic support programs. These services include:

Fundraising Capacity Building

We provide a variety of concentrated services designed to prepare an agency for growth and lay the foundation. Services we make available:

Resource Development Analysis
Board and Volunteer Training
Relationship Building Techniques
Management and Key Leadership Coaching

Campaign Services

Campaigns that are carefully aligned to their strategic vision provide the best sustainable organizational opportunity. It’s important to design campaigns that achieve a well thought out comprehensive fundraising goal that takes into consideration current and future growth, that creating organizational capacity beyond the campaigns conclusion. Our model positions you to capture legacy givers that connect with the mission ensuring a strong individual giving plan that can be carried over enhancing your annual giving program.

We handle all of your campaign needs.

Campaign Feasibility Model

We help design a successful campaign by determining the viability of and the client’s case for support and testing the community’s willingness to support a campaign effort. Study Objectives:

Evaluate the strength of the case for support for a proposed campaign
Determine the most likely fundraising goal potential
Asses the image of your organization among selected potential prospects and community leaders.
Identify and analyze and potential opportunities or obstacles that might impact fundraising potential or results
Identify major contributors to campaign.
Identify and assess the leadership potential for the campaign.
Identify and recommend top prospects to lead campaign
Assess if there is a planned giving opportunity for support.
Recommend a timeline and plan of action.

Organization Development and Human Resources

Develop organizational structures, systems, policies, and procedures that fit your organization's current size and projected growth strategy. Our consultants look at the organization and how your culture and bureaucracy affect leadership and management. We provide an organizational improvement plan for immediate action.

Executive Coaching

Build leadership skills, overcome challenges, and bring new energy to your organization. Our coaches help you clarify your thinking, identify solutions to workplace challenges, become a more effective leader and supervisor, and improve your communication, productivity and confidence. Coaching is a way to assess top quality expertise by embracing the good that comes with change within your organization at an affordable cost.

Speaker Workshop Requests

To request someone from the Dream Makers team to provide workshops or speak at retreats, fundraising events, inspirational activities, trainings at a regional or national meeting or conference and would like a speaker as the keynote address, plenary session, or breakout session.

Interested...please contact us by filling out the Service Request form.
We will contact you within 48 hours.