Paul M. Connolly

Education: BA: Harvard, MPPM: Yale School of Management
Service Expertise: organizational capacity building, strategic planning, grantmaking, cultural participation, and social enterprise
TCC Practice Areas: Philanthropy and Nonprofit

Publications:

• "Maximizing Foundation Effectiveness: Aligning Program Strategy, Organizational Capacity, Strategic Planning, and Performance Assessment to Achieve Success," TCC Group, 2008.
• "Deeper Capacity Building for Greater Impact: Designing a long-term Initiative to Strengthen a set of Non-Profit Organizations," TCC Group, 2007.
• "Smarter Outsourcing for Grantmakers," TCC Group, 2005.
• Strengthening Nonprofit Performance: A Funder's Guide to Capacity Building, Wilder Foundation and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations. 2002. 163 pp. (Co-authored with Carol Lukas.)
• Increasing Cultural Participation: An Audience Development Planning Handbook for Presenters, Producers, and Their Collaborators, Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds. 2001. 179pp. (Co-authored with Marcelle Hinand Cady.)
• Navigating the Organizational Lifecycle: A Capacity-Building Guide for Nonprofit Leaders, BoardSource. 2005. 101pp.

Presentations & Speeches:

• South Florida Donor's Forum, Minnesota Council on Foundations, Northern California Grantmakers
• New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Organizational Learning Conference, South Florida Donors Forum, and Northern California Grantmakers
• Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (2006)
• Chicago Donors Forum (1999)
• Council on Foundations annual conference (2002, 2003, and 2005)
• Grantmakers in the Arts (2005); Association of Small Foundations (2005 and 2006)
• Northern California Grantmakers, Philanthropy Incubator of Silicon Valley
• South Florida Donors Forum
• Associated Grantmakers of Massachusetts
• Alliance for Nonprofit Management (2001-2006) Northern California Consultants Network (2004 and 2006)
• Helped create workshops on nonprofit organizational lifecycles, collaboration, mission statements (1997-2006)

Paul Connolly is Senior Vice President at TCC Group. He leads the firm's Philanthropy Practice, oversaw the firm's Nonprofit Practice, and serves on the firm's board of directors. He also heads the firm’s Western Region office, based in San Francisco. He is a seasoned consultant, manager, trainer, and writer. He is especially knowledgeable about and experienced in organizational capacity building, strategic planning, grantmaking, evaluation, cultural participation, and social enterprise. His current and recent clients include: Arts and Business Council, Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Community Service Society, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Foundation Center, Goldman Sachs, Habitat for Humanity, Helene Fuld Health Trust, Heritage of Pride, James Irvine Foundation, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Jumpstart, The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, National Center for Learning Disabilities, and Safe Horizon.

Before joining the firm ten years ago, he was Associate Director of Nonprofit Facilities Fund (NFF) a community development organization which provides loans and management assistance to nonprofit groups nationally. Previously, Connolly was a management consultant for nonprofit organizations, working independently in New York and at Storey and Green Associates in San Francisco.

He has been a presenter at the Council on Foundations annual convening and other national conferences, a trainer and facilitator for numerous regional grantmaker and nonprofit associations, and a lecturer at universities. In 2005, Connolly published his book Navigating the Organizational Lifecycle: A Capacity-Building Guide for Nonprofit Leaders. He has also co-authored two books, Strengthening Nonprofit Performance: A Funder's Guide to Capacity Building and Increasing Cultural Participation: An Audience Development Planning Handbook for Presenters, Producers, and Their Collaborators, and has published articles in Nonprofit World, The Grantsmanship Center Magazine, Journal for Nonprofit Management, OD Practitioner, and New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising. Connolly has served on the boards of a community health center, a local community board, and an artists' credit union.

Connolly received his Master's Degree in Public and Private Management from Yale School of Management, where he was awarded the Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholarship, and a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Harvard University.

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