Bylaw Reviews for Three Organizations
Throughout my 17 plus years of consulting with nonprofits, we have found that no charitable organization willingly revises their bylaws-- unless it is absolutely necessary! This spring and summer, we worked with three organizations that wanted to update their bylaws to reflect current organizational realities.
The 64.6 Downtown organization in Fort Smith, AR was making a transition toward affiliation as a full time Main Street organization with Main Street Arkansas. Their bylaws needed a...
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A Third Five-Year Strategic Plan for Tacony
Our longstanding client the Tacony Community Development Corporation has entrusted Heritage Consulting Inc. again to develop a third five-year Strategic Plan for this organization in Northeast Philadelphia. Each of the two previous Strategic Plans we provided for them were highly ambitious. Both times, the organization implemented more than 95% of the tasks they set for themselves in these plans.
This time, the organization is more mature and will be wrestling with real estate...
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Fall 2022 Speaking Engagements
We have some upcoming speaking engagements this Fall. On October 19, we will be speaking again to old friends and new at the Illinois Main Street Conference in Bloomington, IL. This time we are speaking about “Better Recruitment Equals Better Boards” and “Boosting Net Revenue at Fundraising Events.” Both of these presentations focus on building a healthy organization by paying attention to basic truths about downtown work: the people and the money are critical components...
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Tacony Selects a New Executive Director
We have been a trusted advisor to the Tacony Community Development Corporation in Northeast Philadelphia since they first began their commercial corridor work in 2009. During that time, they have taken on some really amazing projects. Recently their longstanding Executive Director left for a new position, and they asked for our assistance to organize a search for his replacement.
Over four months, we guided the board appointed Search Committee as they updated the job description...
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Stand Out: 10 Effective and East Ways to Promote Your History Attraction
I am doing a joint session with the fabulous Emily Mantz of EMI Strategies at the NJ Historic Preservation Conference on June 3 at 2:30 PM
Here are the handotus and the PPT for our session
Download them and use them please and tell us how we did!
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