Strategy

Strategic Family Philanthropy: Maximizing Family Engagement & Social Impact
Associate Director of Philanthropy, Ashley Blanchard presents a decision-making framework for selecting family investments and activities.

Mobilizing Resources Webinar (October 26, 2010)
Corporate Community Involvement professionals have heard for years about the value of aligning their work with business goals. But what are the practical steps to make this happen? How can you effectively integrate your work with the business? And how can you accomplish this with limited resources? In this webinar, TCC Group Vice President Thomas Knowlton provides a focused and practical framework to help CCI and CSR executives get started. He'll discuss how to mobilize a company's unique resources for a more unified approach to Corporate Community Involvement.

Effective Family Foundations (June 2, 2010)
TCC Group Senior Consultant and family foundation trustee Ashley Blanchard and Emily Tow Jackson, Executive Director of the Tow Foundation examine how and why family foundations can become more focused in their grantmaking.

Leadership and Organizational Culture (December 9, 2009)
TCC Group consultants Bonnie Mazza and Ana Ramos-Hernandez focus on the importance of organizational culture and leadership's role in shaping it. Attendees learn why organizational culture makes a difference in building an effective organization; the roles of the Executive Director and the board in determining an organization's culture; and skills and tools that participants can use to begin to build the culture they'd like to see in their own organizations.

Leading in Difficult Times Nonprofit Webinar (September 17, 2009)
Even in good times, nonprofit leaders must make tough decisions, and many struggle with how to do so in a way that will protect their organization's best interests. How can the decisions we make today, difficult though they might be, help us in our efforts to preserve the mission and vision of our organizations and prepare us to emerge even stronger? This webinar provides a specific focus on the role of the Board during challenging times. TCC Vice President Shelly Kessler and Consultant Bonnie Mazza discuss strategies for sustainability and share lessons learned.

What is Core? Strategies to Help Nonprofit Leaders Make Decisions (August 20, 2009)
Even in the best of times, nonprofit leaders are called upon to make tough decisions, and many struggle with how to do so in a way that will protect their organization's best interests. For most of us, 2009 is not "the best of times." Every day, nonprofit executives and board members are choosing between the rock and the hard place. How can the decisions we make today, difficult though they might be, help us in our efforts to preserve the mission and vision of our organizations, and even prepare us to emerge stronger? In this webinar, TCC Group offers tools to help leaders determine "what is core," even in the most challenging of times.

Creative Strategies for Limited Resources (May 7, 2009)
Even before the economic downturn, corporate funders were under pressure to "do more with less." During this webinar led by TCC's Corporate practice, TCC outlines strategies to prioritize and focus your efforts, dollars, and resources. By defining and staying true to your organization's company's core strengths and identity, you can rethink your "portfolio of programs" to build relationships with stakeholders and meet reduced budgets without losing your desired impact. TCC also provides ideas and concepts for building efficiencies that may be needed during staff reductions.