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Mission• Advance nonprofits and volunteerism by

strengthening leadership, encouraging innovation and empowering individuals in the community

Vision• A community engaged in positive change and

transformed by service.

• Analyze the market for fiscal sponsorship (“FS”)

• Develop a business plan for the FS program incorporating insights and recommendations gathered through interviews and research

• Build dynamic five-year projection model

Center For Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership

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Evan Wiener and Agung Nugroho

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• Mission: IDEX identifies, evaluates, and grows the best ideas from local leaders and organizations to alleviate poverty and injustice around the world.

• Vision: Foster robust civil societies in the global south, with effective Community Based Organizations, systems & holding governments

Chaitan KanungoSimon Morfit

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• Root Division is a visual arts non-profit that connects creativity and community through a dynamic ecosystem of arts education, exhibitions and studios.

• Root Division strives to be the premier ecosystem for art in the Bay Area. By acting as a catalyst for emerging artists to engage underserved youth, audiences, and peers we will amplify art’s positive impact on society. The combination of our programs will be a model of creative excellence, sustainability and collaboration.

• Develop a financial model analyzing Root Division’s principal revenue streams. As a strategic planning tool, the model will allow Root Division to understand the implications of different operational decisions. This financial analysis complements broader strategic planning discussions the organization is currently undertaking.

Root Divisionwww.rootdivision.org

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John LandefeldJi-Hong Boo

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• Org mission: Health Services for All Ages

• Vision: LifeLong Medical Care provides high-quality health and social services to underserved people of all ages; creates models of care for the elderly, people with disabilities and families; and advocates for continuous improvements in the health of our communities

• Help LifeLong administrative departments more effectively support clinical sites to provide patient care.

• LifeLong would like to improve the quality, productivity, and efficiency of business support activity of administrative departments.

• We focused on the call center dynamics within LifeLong

LifeLong Medical Carewww.lifelongmedicalcare.org

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Berkeley Food and Housing Project (BFHP)• BFHP provides emergency food and shelter,

transitional housing, permanent housing, and housing placement with support services to homeless individuals and families.

• To ease and end homelessness in the community

• Develop a social media strategy for the organization to increase engagement and donor attention. Compile the strategy, social media best practices, and internal content generation plan as part of this work.

Berkeley Food and Housing Projectwww.Bfhp.org

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Joseph ChengCharu Gupta

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San Francisco Lesbian Gay Freedom Band

SFLGFB provides for the education and musical development of its members, promotes visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, and with its allies, fosters understanding among diverse communities through public performance.

Create new marketing and fundraising strategies so as to expand the organization’s capability. This entailed capturing the vision of the organization, interviewing and getting to understand the board, and brainstorming ways to position SFLGFB for long-term growth.

SFLGFB sflgfb.org

Louis Caditz-PeckNivani Govinder

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• Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation• Mission: TNDC provides affordable housing and services

for low-income people in San Francisco, to promote equitable access to opportunity and resources

• Vision: Diverse communities where people with low income can fulfil their potential and meet their basic needs, while feeling safe and supported by their community

• Our project was to assist the Committee on Directors to identify, prioritize and develop recommendations for various initiatives to improve board performance

• We developed a list of initiatives that the board is now reviewing before commencing implementation

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation

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Erica Butow & Fanzi Mao

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NOCCS (North Oakland Community Charter School)

Org mission: The North Oakland Community Charter School is a public school dedicated to helping children become thoughtful, informed, and inquisitive citizens.

• Project objective: Contribute to sustainable fundraising and long term financial stability.

• Results: Electronic database with more than 60 grants available in CA and presentation with detailed information on the top local Bay Area grant foundations for NOCCS, with next steps for creating a grant application template

North Oakland Community Charter School

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Abigail TinkerMikhail Haramati

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Mission: To facilitate the preservation, restoration and interpretation of historical and natural resources on Angel Island, with the goal of enhancing the visitors’ experiences and building a community to support Angel Island State Park.

Vision: To work in partnership with Angel Island to raise funds and develop programs for a local treasure that has something for everyone.

• Support Angel Island State Park by creating and executing a merchandising process to drive needed revenue.

• Benchmarking of products and sales to other parks; Identification of three new key products for development; and creation of a process for product selection and retirement.

Angel Island Conservancywww.angelisland.org

Laura BrandnerJosh Polsinelli

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Berkeley Youth Living with Disabilities (BUILD) strives to provide a model home for youth who have significant developmental disabilities in an environment that fosters the opportunity for growth with the continued involvement of family and friends in a community-based setting.

• Define a sustainable fundraising strategy to meet BUILD’s fundraising goals

• Explore possibility of attracting and identifying major/corporate donors

• Present creative ideas to increase and maintain the circle of potential donors

Berkeley Youth Living with Disabilitieswww.buildhouse.org

Anita RajanMina Yu

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South of Market Child Care, Inc. (SOMACC)

• SOMACC Mission: To provide quality early childhood education programs and comprehensive family support services in a safe and nurturing environment to families in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood

• SOMACC Vision: To provide childcare designed around play-based approach that fosters autonomy and collaboration as children develop self-esteem and respect for one another

• The Board Project focused on devising a marketing plan to increase enrollment of tuition-paying families at the Judith Baker Development Center, one of SOMACC’s childcare centers.

South of Market Child Care, Inc.www.somacc.org

Andrew RiosRebecca Spitzer

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• Mission: Youth Spirit Artworks (YSA) is an art jobs training program located in Berkeley, California which is committed to empowering and bettering the lives of homeless and low-income young people.

• Vision: To use art jobs and jobs training to empower and transform the lives of youth, giving young people the skills, experience, and self-confidence needed to meet their potential.

• Help the board transition life-stage by educating the board on board governance best practices, including:

• Size and Structure: Committees• Leadership: Board Chair and Executive Director• Composition: Needs Assessment, Systematic Process• Process: Efficient Meetings, Board Self Assessment

Youth Spirit Artworkswww.youthspiritartworks.org

Eddie MedinaChristine Tringale

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• Mission: to provide an extraordinary public education for every child

• Project goal: summarize the ‘competitive’ landscape of other funding sources for Berkeley schools and determine areas in which BPEF can increase their impact

• Findings will be referenced by the board when making key decisions regarding allocation of grants and partnership opportunities

Berkeley Public Education Foundation

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Emma Cuevas,Tom Pryor

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Brighter Beginnings• Org mission: Support healthy births and successful

development of children by partnering with parents and helping to build strong communities

• Vision: Every family matters, and every child deserves a happy, healthy future.”

• Develop the first plan for a new, multi-million-dollar Brighter Beginnings Health Clinic and built-to-suit building in West Oakland, including:

• Operating plan• Financial plan• Communications packet

Brighter Beginningswww.brighter-beginnings.org

Stephanie CurranBri Treece

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• Mission: Destiny Arts Center exists to end isolation, prejudice, and violence in the lives of young people.

• Vision: Move young people to peace. Success means young people value themselves and others. They are successful when young people are mindful of the ways their words, actions and attitudes affect their communities and world. They respond rather than react to situations; teach and practice love rather than violence; honor people from different backgrounds and experiences equally; and are active participants in their communities.

• Destiny Arts is seeking to productize a professional development program around their “Youth on the Move” curriculum. We were tasked with figuring out a target market and a go-to-market strategy for this professional development program.

Destiny Arts Centerwww.destinyarts.org

Arata Goto and Ana Rasquiza

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COLAGE unites people with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer parents into a network of peers and supports them as they nurture and empower each other to be skilled, self-confident, and just leaders in our collective communities.

We conducted a communications audit and best practices review and strategic communications recommendations to help the organization better connect to its base, attract new donors, and maintain current ones.

COLAGEwww.colage.org

Lotus Bloom Child and Family Resource Center

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Alexandra ClarkeTim Morrison

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• Lotus Bloom’s mission is to empower individuals to realize their full potential and transcend their dreams into reality.

• We provide arts, crafts, music, and literacy activities to students and families from diverse backgrounds in order to help promote language development and early learning experiences.

• Assess programming and budget to compile an annual report for Lotus Bloom to use in order to attract funders.

Sujit Thapa Prithi Trivedi

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Girls Inc of the Island City

• Encourages girls to be strong, smart, and bold• Empowered girls and an equitable society

• Designed and developed a baseline brand awareness study, to help the marketing team

• Analyzed the results, and provided next steps for the organization

Girls Inc of the Island Citywww.girlsincislandcity.org

Jorge Zapata BarbaraMatt Roehl

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Mission: Mobilize teams of volunteers to revitalize neighborhoods by repairing homes and renovating nonprofit facilities and schools.

Vision: San Francisco is a safe and diverse place for all residents, regardless of age, income or disability

Explore the feasibility of rehabilitating and re-selling REO properties in San Francisco in order to diversify revenue streams. Provide a feasibility study to determine the costs in terms of dollars and staff time, to rehab an REO home in the city and County of San Francisco.

Rebuilding Together SFwww.rebuildingtogethersf.com

Scott Bailey and Jonathan Krangel

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The Sunset Neighbourhood Beacon Center (SNBC)

Mission: to provide supports and opportunities to ensure the healthy development of children, youth, and adults. Purpose: connect people to their passion, potential, and community.

SNBC's operating budget is predominantly sourced from public/government sources, which are becoming increasingly at-risk. We investigated new sustainable fundraising strategies and we interviewed seven non-profit practitioners from organizations of all sizes to determine best practices and identify relevant recommendations for SNBC.

Sunset Neighbourhood Beacon Center (SNBC)www.snbc.org

Aaron PerezJess Felts

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Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the East Bay

Inspired by enduring Jewish values, the mission of JFCS-East Bay is to promote and strengthen the social and emotional well-being of diverse individuals and families throughout the entire East Bay community.

The project goal is to create a marketing strategy for the organization that conveys a consistent message, incorporating the positive aspects of being an organization rooted in Jewish values but also emphasizing the fact that JFCS/EB serves a broad, diverse range of clients

Jewish Family & Children’s Services of the East Bay

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Neelam SabooRiddhiman Ghosh

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Center for Digital Storytelling

Mission & Vision: Surface authentic voices around the world through group process and participatory media creation.

We reviewed the current board profile and performed a gap analysis in terms of board structure, membership and processes. We recommended a new board structure to increase engagement, defined board recruitment and onboarding process, and helped the board arrive at clearer definitions of members roles and responsibilities that support CDS’ new strategy.

Center for Digital Storytellingwww.storycenter.org

Sarah KitsonSarah Walker

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Buchanan YMCA• Mission: To build strong kids, strong families and strong

communities by enriching the lives of all the people in spirit, mind and body.

• Vision: To be known as a community asset, recognized for quality programs that are responsive to our diverse community needs.

• Project focus: governance, board recruiting and retention• Board recruitment

• Analyse current practices• Identify ongoing strategy recruiting a larger and

more diversified board• Board member retention

• Analyze current board experience and tenure• Finding implementable solutions to improve

the board experience and engagement, which the goal of increasing retention

Buchanan YMCAwww.ymcasf.org/buchanan

Tamara PattersonKyle Rudzinski

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Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF)

Mission: To promote a larger, healthier urban forest as part of San Francisco’s green infrastructure through community planting, tree care, education and advocacy.

Marketing and customer segmentation project

Goal:To understand who plants trees and why to target outreach and messaging, thereby increasing tree plantings while reducing marketing costs

Preliminary Findings:- Most effective marketing channels: email list,

door hangers, tree signs- Planters are typically educated, married, support

local businesses, eco-conscious, and 30 or older

Friends of the Urban Forestwww.Fuf.net

Chao LiTyler Garvey

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San Francisco Architectural Heritage

• Heritage aims to help manage change over time, advocating for smart growth through the protection and reuse of historic structures and landscapes.

• Heritage collaborates with local, state, and national partners on education, neighborhood outreach, and public testimony to help preserve the built environment that defines San Francisco.

We are trying to solve issues regarding member retention on all membership levels. There are three audiences that SF Heritage has identified as a target audience for our project:• young professionals, ranging from ages 20 to 40 • passionate preservationists • policy makers and business community members

San Francisco Architectural Heritage

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Alma RicoSkyler Soto

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MissionThe mission of Leadership High School is to cultivate qualities such as critical thinking, initiative, creativity, tolerance, and cooperation.

VisionTechnologically fluent, self-motivated and committed to lifelong learning, Leadership High School students will benefit San Francisco by working to improve themselves and their communities. They will have both a healthy sense of self and empathy for others.

3 projects:• Facebook strategic plan – Develop a strategic plan that outlines

objectives, defines target audience, and recommends an implementation plan that incorporates best practices

• Board Evaluation Tool—Research and recommend survey for Board to evaluate its strengths and opportunities

• Board Recruitment Marketing Materials—Updated and created marketing materials to recruit members at BoardMatch

Leadership High Schoolwww.leadershiphigh.org

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tThe Stride Center• A non-profit social enterprise working to empower

economic self-sufficiency for individuals by harnessing the power of technology and the digital economy to help men, women and families on the road to self-sufficiency and independence.

I worked with the treasurer of the board to refine a financial model for the organization to more dynamically track and update cash flow projections

The Stride Centerwww.stridecenter.org