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Consultant Resources in the Region


Community Wealth Ventures

Community Wealth Ventures (CWV) is the leading management consulting firm that emboldens and equips leadership teams to innovate, grow, and sustain organizations that build a better world. CWV offers strategy and implementation services to nonprofit organizations and philanthropic foundations, partnering with them to design and implement innovative approaches to growth and sustainability, with core expertise in earned income generation. CWV's methodology emphasizes the use of market data and analysis to inform decision-making. Its collaborative approach to consulting focuses on equipping leadership teams with the skills needed to execute the strategy.

CWV is a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading anti-hunger and anti-poverty organizations, which is led by Bill Shore, who was named by US News & World Report as one of America's best leaders. Since its launch, CWV has worked with hundreds of nonprofit organizations across the country, representing a variety of nonprofit missions and organization sizes. In addition to traditional consulting services, CWV has delivered cohort-based learning to networks of nonprofits for eight years in thirteen cities across the country, including the cities of Baton Rouge, Cleveland, Dallas-Fort Worth, Newark, and Washington, DC.

For more information contact Sara Brenner at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Fairmount Ventures, Inc.

Fairmount Ventures, Inc. (Fairmount) is a Philadelphia-based consulting firm consisting of sixteen (16) full time professional staff members with diverse academic and professional expertise.  Formal academic training among the staff includes city planning, business and finance, human service delivery, public policy, communications, and the arts.

Fairmount works exclusively with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations and applies its substantial experience in planning, business development and resource development to its work with clients. While the firm regularly looks beyond the region for inspiration and best practices, virtually all of its work is in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Since its inception in 1992, the firm has served over 250 organizations, ranging in size from start-ups to some of the largest nonprofit corporations in the region.  As fundraising counsel to many nonprofits, Fairmount has secured over $375,000,000 from a diverse portfolio of sources for direct services, capital projects, facilities, endowment, organizational infrastructure and general operations.  A more complete description of the firm, its past clients and accomplishments can be found at www.fairmountinc.com.

For more information contact Don Kligerman, President, at

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The Kaufman Partnership, LTD

The Kaufman Partnership is a Philadelphia-based executive coaching and consulting practice established in 1979 to focus on enhancing performance and leadership in organizations through Impression and Relationship Management. Karen Kaufman and Don Kaufman, pioneers in their field and a husband and wife team have developed the Kaufman Impression Management System® and Relationship Management Profile ® which has given their clients a proactive and positive way to expedite the development of impression skills and their key business relationships. Favorable impressions and positive and productive relationships are essential as organizations commit to develop their future leaders for sustainability and growth. Their client list is extensive and includes health care systems, professional and financial services firms, and the pharmaceutical industries. The Kaufman Partnership can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or by phone at . For more information visit .

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The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University

The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University’s School of Business helps strengthen nonprofit organizations throughout the Delaware Valley so they can better serve their constituents.  Through educational programs, board development, training and consulting services and an information and referral network, the Center’s team of experts works with thousands of organizations to enhance their ability to govern, manage and perform more effectively in a competitive environment. Founded in 1981, The Nonprofit Center is a program of the La Salle University School of Business in Philadelphia.

For more information contact Laura Otten, Director, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Targeted Solutions

Targeted Solutions is the consulting practice of Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC). Drawing on the wide-ranging expertise of PHMC’s staff and PHMC’s experience in collaborating with local non-profits organizations, Targeted Solutions helps nonprofit organizations in the region address many of the challenges of today’s changing health and human services environment. From measuring outcomes to improving financial management systems, Targeted Solutions provides practical, strategic, and proactive services and products tailored to meet the needs of its clients.

For more information on Targeted Solutions, visit .

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TCC Group

TCC Group helps clients honestly assess their strengths and weaknesses, take a step back from their daily work and think in new ways, and mobilize their resources to address critical issues and become more effective. Our services include:

  • Strategy & business planning
  • Program evaluation
  • Governance assessment & restructuring
  • Capacity-building

By posting research and other resources on TTC’s website (www.tccgrp.com) we hope to see organizations achieve their goals and continue to benefit the individuals, families, communities that depend on their programs and efforts. Resources include books; briefing papers; articles and reports; case studies; podcasts and webinars. In addition, we offer the Core Capacity Assessment Tool, an online tool designed to help organizations understand their own organizational strengths, as well as compare themselves to other comparable organizations in the field. A sampling of our resources follows below:

Books

  • Strengthening Nonprofit Performance: A Funder’s Guide to Capacity Building
  • Navigating the Organizational Lifecycle: A Capacity-Building Guide for Nonprofit Leaders
  • A Funder's Guide to Evaluation: Leveraging Evaluation to Improve Nonprofit Effectiveness

Briefing papers

  • The Sustainability Formula
  • Change Management: Strategies to Help Nonprofit Leaders Make the Most of Uncertain Times
  • Ten Keys to Successful Strategic Planning for Nonprofit and Foundation Leaders
  • What Makes an Effective Advocacy Organization?
  • Effective Nonprofit Evaluation: Through a "Community of Learners"
  • Creating a Community of Learners: Successful Evaluative Learning for Nonprofits and Funders
  • Learning As We Go: Making Evaluation Work for Everyone
  • Evaluating Capacity-building Efforts for Nonprofit Organizations
  • Strategic Planning: Some Lessons Learned about What Does and Doesn't Work Performance Assessment to Achieve Success
  • Deeper Capacity Building for Greater Impact: Designing a Long-term Initiative to Strengthen a Set of Nonprofit Organizations
  • Getting Back in Shape: Guidelines for Improving the Fitness of Established Nonprofit Organizations

Articles and Reports

  • A Climate Change in Evaluation: Leadership in Difficult Times
  • Adaptive Leadership for Nonprofits: Leading In Difficult Times
  • Building the Capacity of Capacity Builders
  • Good Growth, Bad Growth and How to Tell the Difference
  • Making Growth Work: Planning and Management Guidelines for Nonprofit Organizations
  • Mission Possible: Improving Your Organization's Mission Statement
  • Nine Keys for Reinvigorating Board Leadership
  • Pulling Together: Strengthening the Nonprofit Sector through Strategic Restructuring
  • Strengthening the Capacity of Cultural Organizations to Increase Participation

Podcasts

  • A Community of Learners
  • Adaptive Leadership for Nonprofits
  • Beyond the Hype: Social Media Strategies for Nonprofit Arts Organizations
  • Capacity Building
  • Change Management
  • Understanding The Sustainability Formula
  • What Makes Nonprofits Sustainable?

Webinars

  • Leading In Difficult Times
  • What is Core? Strategies to Help Nonprofit Leaders Make Decisions

For more information, contact Shelly Kessler at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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