CLA is a professional services firm delivering integrated wealth advisory, outsourcing, and public accounting capabilities to help enhance our clients' enterprise value and assist them in growing and managing their related personal assets - all the way from startup to succession and beyond. Our professionals are immersed in the industries they serve and have specialized knowledge of their operating and regulatory environments. With nearly 4,000 people, 90 U.S. locations, and a global affiliation, we bring a wide array of solutions to help clients in all markets, foreign and domestic. For more information visit CLAconnect.com. Investment advisory services are offered through CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor.

 

Wells Fargo is a strong financial services company providing banking, insurance, investment tools, and consumer and commercial finance through more than 9,000 stores (in 39 states and the District of Columbia), 12,500+ ATMs, local relationship offices, and through the internet across North America and internationally.

Wells Fargo has dedicated teams around the country that cover the full spectrum of nonprofit clients and has relationship managers exclusively focused on serving the unique needs of the nonprofit sector. Our expertise allows us to anticipate your unique needs and assist you in making smart decisions about the future. We offer an extensive range of financing and operating solutions designed to grow with you. Each nonprofit organization will work with one relationship manager who is dedicated to helping you achieve your mission.  Our Mid-Atlantic Education & Nonprofit banking team consists of 14 relationship managers, all in the Washington, D.C. market. This team has focused on nonprofit entities for over 30 years. 

We are proud of our 23 year association with FAR and deeply value our partnership.

 

The Washington Metropolitan Area's nonprofit organizations and professional services firms trust West, Lane & Schlager Realty Advisors ("WLS"), to assist them in making measurably better real estate decisions. As an independent commercial real estate firm, we provide all of our leasing resources, experience and transactional services exclusively to tenants, ensuring our clients representation free of conflict. We are continuously developing innovative ways to exceed our clients' needs. We build lasting relationships with clients by demonstrating our passion for quality, creativity and accountability in everything we do.  
 
WLS works collaboratively with our clients from the initial planning phase through lease expiration, treating each engagement as if we were solving our own real estate challenges. We first analyze our client's current real estate situation, determining and prioritizing their business goals and needs.  Next, we develop a strategic real estate plan, benchmarking and meticulously detailing each lease/purchase option available, based on established project goals and extensive market research. Throughout the planning process, we remain focused on finding solutions that are in line with our clients' budget, narrowing the options until we have selected the best fit for their unique situation, and negotiated the best possible terms for the transaction.  Each step along the way is documented in the strategic plan, representing a transparent and thorough road-map for our client of what they did, and why they did it.
 
Our goal and vision for every project is to supersede the expectations of our clients, provide exceptional service and negotiate transactions that create better market conditions for the tenant community. Whether it's strategic planning, benchmarking, leasing/purchasing office space, construction management or operating-expense reviews, we'll convert rent dollars into working dollars.

Anyone who has spent some time with me knows that I am a huge Rolling Stones fan. For some reason, their music struck a chord in my teenaged brain and it's never subsided. I'm not great at the game "Name That Tune", but with the Stones it only takes one note to recognize the song. Lately, however, as I take stock of the local office market trends for non-profit organizations, I start to think about the song, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and realize that my beloved band was wrong...for a while longer at least.

Even though local office building owners countered the 2008/2009 economic downturn by lowering rents and increasing concession packages, by national standards, our market was strong because the federal government was actively leasing new space. But that actively ended in 2011. By the second half of 2012, a few owners came to the conclusion that demand in the market would not pick up again for 3-4 years. In turn, these owners initiated a strategy of filling their buildings with tenants, even at severely discounted rents. Once a few "low cost" transactions were completed, all landlords followed suit. As a result, within three months, landlord allowances increased by approximately 25% and rental abatement increased by almost 33%.

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In 1948, George Hertzbach had a vision of starting an independent, full-service accounting firm dedicated to local, hard-working businesses. Since those humble beginnings, his vision has grown into a firm of over 160 professionals, diverse in their experience and achievements, concentrating in multiple practice areas throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.

 

TD Bank America's Most Convenient Bank�,  US is a member of the TD Bank Group and a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank. TD US is one of the 10 largest banks in the U.S., providing more than 8 million customers with a full range of retail, small business and commercial banking products and services at approximately 1,300 convenient locations throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Metro D.C., the Carolinas and Florida. In addition, TD Bank and its subsidiaries and affiliate, TDAmeritrade, offer customized services including Commercial Lending, Equipment Finance/Leasing, Capital Markets Financing, Treasury Management, Corporate Card, Merchant Services, International Banking, Institutional Investment Management, among other financial services. The Toronto-Dominion Bank trades on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges under the ticker symbol "TD". To learn more, visit www.td.com.

At TD Bank, we have a team of seven bankers who work with not for profit organizations.  Headquartered in Greater Washington and Baltimore,  the team is led by Patti Lenahan and has a combined experience of well over 100 years. Our professionals understand the unique not-for-profit sector, and we work side by side with clients to craft financial solutions customized to achieve their goals. In addition, TD has two teams dedicated to serving not-for-profits in New York City and Boston. All three teams share ideas and best practices.

Recent awards include the following:

* TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank�, was named Best Big Bank by Money Magazine
* Named Safest Bank in North America and one of the World's 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance Magazine
* Named one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune Magazine