FBCB Services
Faith-Based Capacity Builders
Faith-Based Capacity Builders Consultants can help your organization survive the impact of changes in public policy, funding and the community's tolerance for the organization's clients and political will as well as the need for strategic planning and organizational re-structuring. The following categories identify the services they can provide you.
Services Offered:
ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT
- Communication Systems
- Inter-departmental Communication
- Office Organization
- Non-computer Office Systems
- Meetings Facilitation
- Project Management
- Operations Procedures
BOARD DEVELOPMENT
- Bylaws Review
- Governance
- Meeting Facilitation
- Operations/Procedures
- Recruitment/Development
- Structure
- Training in board responsibilities
COLLABORATIONS
- Partnership Creation with Organizations with Similar Interests
- Relationship Building with the Media to "Push" Information about Organization
- Relationship and Partnership Building with Specific Audiences for Fundraising and Comprehensive Service Delivery
- Recruitment of Visible Spokesperson for the Organization
DEVELOPMENT AND FUNDRAISING
- Campaigns: Capital, Endowment, Annual Giving
- Development Planning
- Development of Multiple Income Streams
- Integration of Volunteers into Fundraising
- Earned Income
- Online Fundraising
- Government, Foundation and Corporate Grantwriting
- Individual Giving: Major Gifts, Deferred and Planned Giving, Direct Mail
- Special Events: Telethons
- Knowledge of Current Funding and Future Service Needs, and Funding Trends
- Communication with Donors and Funders
- Creative Fundraising Activities
- Development of a database, segmented according to size, frequency and longevity of donation, possible reasons for supporting organization
- Methods of acknowledging donors and keeping them connected to organization
FACILITIES
- Architectural assessments and services
- Engineering services
- Real estate development, financing, management
- Space planning
FINANCE
- Auditing
- Bookkeeping
- Budgeting
- Cash Flow Projection
- Financial Management
- Financial Reporting
- Fund Accounting
- Investments
HUMAN RESOURCES
- Compensation
- Diversity
- Employee Relations and Benefits
- Executive Search
- Management Training
- Performance Evaluation
- Personnel Policies and Job Descriptions
- Recruitment and Retention
- Staff Development: Ongoing Program, Evaluation of Staff Development
- Volunteer Management
- Orientation for new staff
- Supervision
- Strengthening Management Team and Frontline Staff Relationships
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- Database Development
- E-Commerce
- Internet/Telecommunications
- Equipment Maintenance
- Networking
- Programming
- Project Management
- Security
- Software Specification
- Systems Design
- Tech Support
- Training on IT Issues
- Web Development and Maintenance, Especially Linkages to Other Web Sites
- Identify Appropriate Technology Planning Tools and Uses of Technology in Service Delivery
LEGAL SERVICES
- Conflict Resolution
- Contract Negotiation
- Document Review
- Incorporation
- Legal Assistance and Representation
- Merger and Consolidation
- Regulatory Research
MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS
- Audience Development
- Communications
- Direct Mail
- Graphic Design
- Internet Marketing
- Market Research: Surveys, Focus Groups, Competitive Analysis
- Marketing Strategies
- Membership Programs
- Publications: newsletters—email and paper, annual report, Web site
- Media Publicity
- Telemarketing
- Trade Shows
- Creative Marketing Strategies
- Identification of Organization's "Brand"
- Review of Current Marketing Materials
- Creation and Evaluation of New Marketing Materials
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Accreditation
- Change Management
- Promotion of a culture of innovation
- Quality Assurance and Improvement
- Innovation Programs
- Organizational Assessment
- Outcome Measurement
- Retreat Planning and Facilitation
- Strategic Alliances
- Strategic Planning: Organizational Assessment, Working with Board and Staff to Create a Plan Specific to Organization, Evaluation of Current Plan and Update
- Strategic Planning Training: Board and Staff
PROGRAM
- Process Improvement
- Program Design
- Program Evaluation: Logic Model, Outcome Measures
- Program Implementation
- Clinical Supervision
PUBLIC POLICY AND AFFAIRS
- Advocacy Strategy
- Legislation Drafting
- Legislative Tracking
- Policy Analysis
- Research and Writing Public Policy Papers