Nonprofits are facing greater challenges than ever before: stronger competition for private support, shifting patterns of public funding, and increased demand for services. Yet, with nearly three decades of experience, TCC Group has a track record of providing consulting services to help nonprofit organizations navigate through the complex operational and external challenges of today's world. Our consulting staff has extensive experience working in the nonprofit sector as program managers and senior staff. All of our consultant-level staff hold graduate degrees in nonprofit management, public policy, or business, and several have completed dual-degree graduate programs. Our nonprofit consulting projects range from short workshops on board relations and governance to lengthy multi-year evaluation and strategic planning assignments. Likewise, our clients include nonprofits of all sizes ranging from small social service nonprofits to national membership organizations to large international NGOs.
What We Do
We help our clients honestly assess their strengths and weaknesses, take a step back from their daily work and to think in new ways, and mobilize their resources to address critical issues and become more effective. Our work assists nonprofits in thinking of the future and accomplishing their vision.
Our services include:
- Strategic & business planning
- Program evaluation
Evaluating Your Strategic Planning Efforts
TCC Group values evaluation and strategic planning assessments that center not only on organizational outcomes, but more specifically on "what worked" and "why". This approach joins an organization's assessment efforts with its strategic planning goals and objectives and illustrates how and if resources, capacities, and strategies directly relate to delivery of services and achieving intended outcomes.
As providers of both strategic planning and evaluation services to nonprofits, TCC Group is well positioned to facilitate your organization's efforts to assess its strategic plan implementation. Our consultants emphasize planning and evaluation grounded in your vision and mission with a particular focus on goals and objectives for continuous improvement, sustainability or expansion. We are skilled in the development of metrics around nonprofit capacity, finance, board development, program development, and delivery of service.
TCC Group's approach to strategic planning and evaluation begins where you are—recognizing your nonprofit's structure, capacity, and needs—and builds on these to ensure a strategic plan and evaluation measurement system that meets your information priorities.
- Governance assessment & restructuring
- Capacity building
Other Nonprofit Resources:
Cases In Point
Business planning and membership assessment for The Alban Institute
The Alban Institute focuses on strengthening leadership and congregations by developing research-based resources that advance congregational-based practices. The Alban Institute engaged TCC to conduct a business planning process for its consulting practice to enhance its marketing, pricing, and staffing structures. In a separate project, TCC was also retained to study the role of Alban's membership program in the life of congregational leaders. TCC Group has continued to work with Alban in implementing its business plan and strengthening its consulting practice.
Strategic Plan for Friends of Hudson River Park
Friends of Hudson River Park contracted with TCC Group to facilitate a strategic planning process that resulted in a roadmap for transitioning from an advocacy organization to a long-term community institution.
Evaluation of NPower Services
TCC was engaged by NPower to conduct a three year field-level study to document the provision of technology assistance to nonprofits; identify the strategies used to measure nonprofit's readiness for such a assistance; better understand best practices relative to the service delivery strategies employed by providers; as well as to measure nonprofit outcomes in terms of organizational effectiveness and mission achievement.
Pre-business planning assessment of the USO
The USO is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide morale, welfare and recreation-type services to US troops. TCC Group was asked to do a pre-business planning assessment of the USO's programs globally to help the organization understand the needs of their key constituencies.
