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Consulting Services

Working through the Community Resource Center, Sarah Fischler provides customized consulting services to small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations, primarily throughout Colorado. 

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Sarah provides the following services:

  • Customized organizational development services, including assessments, planning, implementation, and measuring success
  • Research and writing on issues related to the nonprofit sector
  • Research, analysis, and writing for projects within individual nonprofit organizations
  • Customized trainings and workshops on many topics related to nonprofit management and leadership
  • Meeting and retreat facilitation
  • Project direction and management
  • Consulting to small family and community foundations on grantmaking effectiveness and grantee relations

 

Sarah brings expertise in the following areas:  

 

Nonprofit Effectiveness and Planning

  • Organizational assessment (whole organization, program, board, and program)
  • Using evaluation as a learning tool
  • Program evaluation (development and implementation)
  • Strategic planning and strategic thinking
  • Aligning mission, activities, and strategy for improved effectiveness
  • Building successful collaborative relationships
  • Crisis management and organizational stabilization

 

Fund Development

  • Colorado Common Grant Application and Report template development
  • Developing a case for support
  • Individual donor program development
  • Fundraising best practices
  • Using social media and online communication tools for fundraising
  • Data management and utilization
  • Grant fundraising: from research to reporting
  • Fund development planning for organizations with budgets less than $1 million

 

Online Communications and Social Media

  • Using online communication tools and social media to advance your organization’s mission
  • Measuring success with social media
  • Online fundraising

 

Governance and Board Development

  • Board roles and responsibilities
  • Board engagement and effectiveness
  • Board assessment
  • Governance models
  • Engaging board members in fundraising

 

Organizational Leadership and Leadership Transition

  • Succession planning (proactive and emergency, typically as part of a larger project)
  • Successfully transitioning to a new executive director
  • Interim executive director placements

 

Services to Small Community and Family Foundations

  • Developing effective relationships with grantees
  • Measuring impact of grantmaking activities
  • Gathering grantee feedback and grantee surveys
  • Improving grantmaking practices
  • Applicant information sessions
  • Developing programs that support building grantee capacity

 

To work with Sarah in any of these areas, please contact her through the Community Resource Center or this link.