Services

Organizational Assessment

ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT Conducting assessments requires a combination of observational skill, analytical rigor, field knowledge, independent judgment, practical experience, and flexibility. We bring all those attributes to our organizational assessments. In addition, our consultants are able to provide immediate and seamless assistance from assessment directly into strategic planning, drawing on lessons learned and offering expert recommendations Organizational Assessment

Public Speaking & Professional Development Opportunities

Public Speaking & Professional Development Opportunities WolfBrown consultants are seasoned public speakers and instructors, and can provide insight into a variety of relevant topics for your staff, board or community members. Past keynote and workshop topics include “Trends in Cultural Participation,” “Communicating Value,” “Audience Research In Practice,” “Emerging Practices in Collaborative Marketing” and “Making the Public Speaking & Professional Development Opportunities

Marketing Consulting

Marketing Consulting WolfBrown consultants have assisted a variety of cultural institutions with reaching their next level of marketing effectiveness. Services include marketing and creative assessments, strategic marketing planning, including campaign analysis and return on investment, strategic communications and messaging, interim marketing services during management transitions, and ticket pricing analysis and recalibration.

Enhanced Facilitation and Field Summits

Enhanced Facilitation and Field Summits Convening people to talk through issues, develop consensus, and learn from experience is a fundamental element of WolfBrown’s consulting practice. Services range from facilitated meetings of individuals from one or several organizations, to a convening of leaders to discuss issues critical to a field. Clients find WolfBrown’s enhanced facilitation model Enhanced Facilitation and Field Summits

Fund-raising Implementation and Support

Fund-raising Implementation and Support WolfBrown provides a variety of adjunct services that can help you achieve fund-raising success both during and after a resource development assessment or capital campaign feasibility study, including Writing support (case statements, proposals, and brochures), development staff search support, vendor support (preparation of RFPs), prospect research, and ongoing implementation support throughout Fund-raising Implementation and Support

Capital Campaign Feasibility Planning

Capital Campaign Feasibility Planning For a capital campaign to succeed, an organization needs a compelling case, volunteer leadership that has the interest and capacity both to give and to identify and solicit others who will give, a pool of potential donors that are known to the organization and a verified potential for lead gifts. WolfBrown Capital Campaign Feasibility Planning

America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth

America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and youth. America’s Promise sought the assistance of WolfBrown to help it expand its funding base. Through a comprehensive development assessment and ongoing counsel, WolfBrown consultants worked with the board and America’s Promise: The Alliance for Youth

Fund-raising Assessment and Support

FUND-RAISING ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT WolfBrown has assisted dozens of organizations facing challenges that call for fund-raising expertise – the need to expand capacity, develop an overall strategy and message, refine techniques, or launch a successful capital campaign. Typical projects work toward the systemic integration of fund raising into an organization’s overall operations. WolfBrown’s assessment reports Fund-raising Assessment and Support

Human Capital Strategy/HR Support

Human Capital Strategy/HR SupportWhen we think of building organizational capacity, we most often think of strengthening executive and board leadership, cultivating new audiences through bold artistic initiatives, and building capital reserves to ensure financial stability. While these are all important pathways to sustainability, the common denominator is people. Without a motivated and skilled workforce, organizational Human Capital Strategy/HR Support

Community Cultural Planning

COMMUNITY CULTURAL PLANNING WolfBrown consultants were pioneers in the development of community cultural plans in the 1980s. They have completed plans in communities of all sizes and in all part of the country. The approach varies in each community but generally includes both quantitative and qualitative research, broad public input and dialogue with key stakeholders. Community Cultural Planning