News from TCC Group

May eNews

Scaling an Innovative Education Program

10,000 Degrees (previously the Marin Education Fund) has provided educational equity through college access programs, scholarships, and support to under-served students in Marin County, California, since 1981. When the organization wanted to expand beyond the county, they knew they needed to think carefully about the resources necessary to grow their programs. TCC facilitated a business planning process, undertook a feasibility study, and conducted an in-depth evaluation to guide the organization's programmatic expansion. Read more about how we helped 10,000 Degrees reach even more students in California.

Business Planning 101:
Join the Webinar

TCC Group Partner Shelly Kessler and Senior Consultant Nadia Gomes will explore the key components of a mission-driven business plan in this free webinar. Participants will take away an understanding of the steps involved; how to assess and define a market with contributors, clients, and collaborators; and how to incorporate mission into decision-making. Nadia Gomes

This session is for executive staff in charge of launching a mission-based enterprise or developing a business plan. Register here.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

1 - 2:00PM Eastern

Dive Deeper into Business Planning:
Earned Income for Nonprofits

While nonprofits seek support in many forms, business plans represent a formal rationale for financial investment. However, how does business planning for a mission-driven venture differ from that of a for-profit enterprise? How do you discuss the concept of return on investment for a nonprofit? What does a business plan have to do with social impact?

Articulating value -- be it financial return or carefully measured social impact -- and creating a convincing case for funding is the crux of successful business planning. As a companion piece to the Business Planning 101 webinar, Nadia Gomes discusses the complexities that nonprofits face when creating a compelling plan for earned income ventures. Read more.

The Foundation CEO's Delicate Balancing Act

How can a foundation CEO set a tone and culture that strike the right balance Ashley Blanchard between rational, disciplined, and quantitative grantmaking and passion-driven, responsive, and intuitive approaches? A packed room of CEOs debated this question at the recent Council on Foundation Conference. Associate Director Ashley Blanchard writes about the discussion that arose over the "delicate balance" between logic and intuition. Read more on the RE: Philanthropy blog.

Navigating the Organizational Lifecycle

The organizational lifecycle suggests that, over the course of time, nonprofits move through a fairly predictable sequence of developmental stages. Senior Partner Paul Connolly will present a workshop at the Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management Symposium in Chicago on June 5. Connolly will help participants learn to assess their organization's stage of development in order to align capacities, manage organizational transitions, and anticipate future challenges. He will also highlight strategies for making the case to funders for capacity-building support. Register for the conference here.

TCC Group is Hiring

TCC Group -- a national firm that provides strategy, evaluation, and capacity-building services to funders and nonprofits -- is seeking to fill two important positions. The first is a Senior Consultant who will be based in our New York City office and will focus on strategy, planning, and organizational development services for nonprofits. The second is a Consultant based in our San Francisco office who will concentrate on providing strategy and capacity-building services to foundations and nonprofit organizations. Click here for more information. Please share this with anyone who you think might be a good fit for these jobs.

About TCC Group

Our mission is to develop strategies and programs that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, and corporate community involvement programs to achieve social impact.

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