Carson Dean Consulting can help with a variety of organizational needs – strategic planning, fund development, board development, succession planning, and coaching just to name a few. As a generalist, we work across all types of organizations. With a background steeped in the human and social services sector, we have a wealth of subject matter expertise, especially related to homelessness and housing instability. As importantly, if you have a project that isn’t among our services offerings, we’ll connect you to someone that matches your needs. Let’s talk!
Strategic Planning
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Initially published as organizations began to re-open and return in-person to workplaces after the COVID-19 pandemic, the considerations in Nonprofit Risk Management Center's article, Take 10: Resume and Thrive Strategies, can help any organization reasses its business strategies and reinitatie its programs and services after an abrupt change, closure, or crisis.
A Nonprofit's Guide to Risk Management & Insurance - "Risk management can play a critical role in a nonprofit's success or failure.
The 501(c)ast Series is a "facilitated web-series of interviews brings together seasoned experts to help nonprofits succeed" started in 2020 by NonprofitResources.us. Webcast topics in the series have included: nonprofit staffing models, strategic development, mental health in the workplace, generational changes in the workforce, and nonprofit overhead.
Mergers and acquisitions are much more common in the nonprofit sector than most would think. Nonprofit mergers often come about through default – due to financial distress or leadership vacuums. At the same time, relatively few nonprofits are using it strategically – as a way to strengthen organizations' effectiveness, spread best practices, expand reach, and to do all of this more cost-effectively.
These days, many organizations are asking themselves: Could we have been better prepared? While organizations use strategic planning to prepare for opportunities and challenges and to chart a course forward, nonprofits have spent 2020 adapting and evolving, and are taking a new look at future strategic planning needs.
This Nonprofit Learning Lab* resource entitled, Creating a Fundraising Plan: Step-by-Step Guidebook, offers an in depth review of the process to create a fundraising plan, fundraising strategies, details on how to draft a plan and sample templates. This guidebook also includes activities and worksheets to help staff, board members, and fundraising committee members with developing their fundraising plan.
Jeanne Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Strategic Technology Planning Guide offers a step-by-step approach to designing a long-term technology plan for your nonprofit. It identifies specific meetings you would need to have with your technology steering committee and other stakeholders in each phase, deliverables to achieve at each step of the strategic planning process, and tools for needs such as calculating Total Cost of Ownership.