Transformative change
Change is inevitable. Thriving is a choice. Every individual and organization is headed in one of two directions – toward decline or toward deep, serious change. Choosing not to change is choosing slow death. Take advantage of our “individual” or “organizational” vision-based planning process called Strategic FuturingTM This process engages you in reflection, visioning, analysis, dialogue, planning and action. It is a navigational tool which will better integrate your personal vision and purpose with your business or ministry goals and objectives.
Resource Development
My professional experience includes acquisition of charitable donations and earned income strategies as well as investment capital. This includes:
Traditional Sources
- Major Donor Development
- Grants (public & private)
- Corporate Gifts
- Capital Campaigns
- Social Media
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Gifts-in Kind
Innovative Source: Social Enterprise
Assisting charitable organizations to develop earned income strategies outside of the traditional methods.
Social enterprise is business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximize profit for shareholders and owners.
As with all businesses, social enterprise activities compete to deliver goods and services. The difference is that social purposes are at the very heart of what they do, and the profits they make are reinvested towards achieving those purposes.
Social enterprises operate in almost every industry from health and social care to renewable energy, from retail to recycling, from employment to sports, from housing to education. Whatever they do, they do it differently from typical business, because they are driven by a social and environmental mission, and they are focused on the community they serve.
Noted below are a few social enterprise initiatives in which I have been involved.
* Kinshasa, Congo – Partner in an agri-business providing fresh grown and delivered food, hiring at least 70% of women who are single heads of households. We, of course, have major export contracts and clients as well. (See Learn More link)
* Los Angeles – Developed a commercial urban laundry service through a charity to serve Skid Row clients.
*Southern California – Developed a Synod-wide program to repurpose underutilized urban church properties.
* Qinghai, Tibet – Supported an export income stream for women who weave traditional carpets in their home, by providing a simple loom and raw materials. The facilitators were missionaries.
*Ometepa, Nicaragua – Provided a mobile diagnostic laboratory unit which now accelerates diagnosis and treatment, and generates income for this island community.
* Luzon, Philippines – Support given to local small plot farmers to plant, harvest and sell two cash crops (cashew and cacao).
Global Sourcing
I am a global strategist and connector with contacts in most of the approx.100 countries in which I have worked or traveled. If you need to locate products, people or finances let me know if I can assist you. Much of my engagement has been in the global health products space – pharma, lab, instruments, equipment, rapid tests, consumables, etc. But I have sourced many other products including bulk food, textiles, apparel, HBA, footwear, relief supplies, rare earth minerals, precious metals and gems (direct from mining sources), etc. I also connect needed human resources particularly in unique or specialized areas. Likely I will “know someone, who knows someone.”
SAMPLE OF CLIENTS SERVED
