Align Your Mission
With Results
Strategic planning, Assessment, Fund Development & Sustainability
Advancing positive social change requires knowing the results your organization seeks to achieve. Effective frameworks clearly articulate desired results and reflect a collective perception of what engaged partners set out to accomplish together. Successful strategic plans are developed with a shared purpose, a collaborative framework for results, reasonable yet ambitious objectives, tailored interventions, and a system that uses quantitative and qualitative data to measure and assess progress. These plans are reviewed regularly as part of systematic performance management toward fulfilling desired results.
- What impact does your organization seek to achieve in the world?
- Which results for individuals, families, and communities will demonstrate that your organization’s impact is real?
- Which data and what milestones will be used to measure success?
Success Stories
- Manchester Community College – Cultivating a Vibrant Learning Environment through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Assisted Manchester Community College to develop a plan and build capacity for faculty, staff, and students to address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Assessed MCC’s diversity climate. Produced an assessment report identifying major themes and issues. Conducted workshops and meetings to develop a shared understanding of key concepts and build capacity for interrupting bias. Produced a final report with comments on the DEI Action Plan and recommendations for ongoing progress.
January 2017 – December 2018 - Victory Women of Vision – Strategic Planning for Success. Assisted Victory Women of Vision Founder & President and Advisory Board members in developing a strategic plan that will be used to guide this organization’s work in the coming three years (2017- 2020) under an Opportunity Grant from the Endowment for Health
October 2016 – September 2017 - Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies – Managed and led facilitation of the Jobs Initiative Race, Ethnicity & Cultural Competence “legacy” strategy. The strategy disseminated information and knowledge resources developed by an interdisciplinary team of workforce development practitioners and professionals from multiple sectors involved in addressing issues of cultural competence among sites involved in a national workforce development initiative designed and funded by Annie E. Casey Foundation.
January through December 2003 - Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative – Conducted an environmental scan and produced a report of policies and opportunities for collaboration led by the initiative to promote financial literacy and asset development among young adults served by the foster care system.
July 2001 through March 2002
Fund Development & Sustainability
Organizations in the nonprofit sector are expected to secure funding for sustaining operations and programming. Fund development strategies are effective when they are multifaceted and include a portfolio with varied types of funding sources. A solid plan begins with an internal needs assessment based on quantitative and qualitative data about the people and issues of interest to the organization.
It is important to use this information to prioritize the issues your organization’s funding and sustainability strategy would address. Based on your priorities, it is possible to identify partners and prospective funders with similar perspectives and interests. The T. L. Hill Group assists nonprofits with shaping the organization’s networking and fund development strategies to achieve long-term sustainability.
Success Stories
- New Hampshire Immigrant Integration Initiative Sustainability Planning, supported by the Endowment for Health – Facilitated a process with local collaboratives in Nashua, Manchester, Concord, and Laconia and with the Community of Practice to develop plans for continuing successful efforts beyond the initial grant period. Assessed sustainability capacity using Washington University’s Program Sustainability Assessment Tool. Facilitated teams to identify high-impact, high value strategies using Matrix MappingTM.
February 2017 – January 2018 - Portland Empowered Sustainability Plan & Growth Strategy – Managed a year-long process with the Youth and Community Engagement team at the Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, that produced a sustainability plan and growth strategy for Portland Empowered, an initiative that champions student and parent voice in education reform with a specific focus on engaging new American immigrants and refugees and others who have been historically underrepresented.
July 2016 – June 2017