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Planning
Planning for your organization’s future is a crucial aspect of keeping things running smoothly and growing in a planned manner. Unfortunately, too often the planning process is onerous and difficult and the resulting “strategic plans” end up as irrelevant, static documents that sit on the shelf. Done right, however, strategic planning is a dynamic process that involves your stakeholders in building the builds the roadmap that to your organization’s future. The strategic plans that rise from a dynamic planning process become evolving, “living” documents that both grow your organization and grow with it. Let the professionals at KMH Consulting help your organizations craft a dynamic, useful strategic plan that clarifies where you need to go and details the concrete steps needed to get there. Our planning services include:

  • Facilitating strategic planning sessions
  • Assisting with the development of vision and mission statements
  • Helping develop long-term, innovative strategic plans
  • Creating practical, step-by-step operations plans to implement your vision
  • Filing for non-profit status and developing by-laws

Fundraising & Grant Writing
A strategic plan can only be implemented with adequate funding, and programs don't run without money. Figuring out where and how to develop those funding sources, making an effective pitch for those funds, or simply having the time to seek funds for your organization can be an immediate and difficult challenge. An enormous amount of valuable executive and staff time is often taken up by ineffective and inefficient fund raising activities. KMH Consulting can make the fundraising process less painful and more productive. We work with you to develop a comprehensive fundraising strategy that funds operations while allowing for growth. Our professionals can:

  • Assist in designing a comprehensive development plan for your organization
  • Contract for "hands on" fundraising including donor contact and solicitation
  • Develop fundraising collateral materials
  • Research potential donors and donor organizations and provide reports
  • Write effective grant proposals
  • Design and implement Capital Campaigns
  • Install Donor Tracking Systems including training
  • Evaluate Development/Fundraising departments
  • Produce successful special events from Galas to Golf Tournaments
  • Troubleshoot

 

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Program Development
 To meet your organization’s mission and goals, you need effective programs. Our extensive experience in many areas of health and social services and our broad network of topical experts in numerous areas means we can help you identify and pick the most effective programs to meet your needs. If there are no proven programs to meet your need, or you want to modify an effective program to do something unique, our program and curriculum experts can work with you to design a program that delivers results. Whether you whether you are working to prevent teen pregnancies in your community or you are looking to rejuvenate a community through implementing a micro-loan program, we can help you identify and/or develop the best program to achieve your goals. Our program development services include:
  • Conducting “best practice” research to identify proven or promising programs in your field
  • Modifying existing programs or curriculums to meet the unique needs of your community or clientele
  • Developing new programs or curriculums based on effective strategies and up-to-the-minute research on whatever topic is relevant
  • Field testing programs to be sure they work well in practice

 

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Agency &Program Management
Are you an Executive Director personally supervising more than 20 employees of your non-profit organization? Has the growth of your programs outstripped the growth of your management infrastructure? Are you running from one administrative crisis to another, spending time putting out fires and struggling to keep afloat instead of working to move your organization forward? Do the operations of a department or program stumble or come to a complete halt when a key employee leaves? Then you are not alone. Many, if not the majority, of non-profit directors find themselves in these straights, typically because they were trained as experts in delivering services, not in managing organizations. The lack of proper management procedures and infrastructure is one of the biggest obstacles to the ongoing operation of a non-profit organization or agency. Inadequate or ineffective management structure and practices at best reduce an organization’s effectiveness: even the best programs can not reach their true potential when implemented by a poorly run agency or organization. At worst, poor management can cause an organization to close its doors. KMH Consulting can determine and implement your organization’s ideal management structure to help you operate more efficiently. Whether your need is in accounting or human resources, or the distribution and delivery of goods and services, our management and operations experts can help you in numerous areas, including:

  • Operations and management assessments to determine where your problem areas are and how they can best be solved
  • Developing standardized operating procedures to ensure your organization runs smoothly
  • Creating detailed management and operations manuals to ensure consistency and continuity of operations and services
  • Providing temporary or short-term expertise to help an agency keep running until permanent staff can be found, funded, and hired
Program Evaluation & Policy Analysis
Do you view "evaluation" as some distracting, pointless requirement by your funders? Do you feel the money you spend on evaluation would be better spent on programs or services? Done well, evaluating your programs or policies can be much more than an onerous accountability requirement. KMH Consulting's collaborative, partnership-based approach to evaluation means evaluation can become a crucial tool for both serving your community or constituency and for managing your own organization. Effective evaluation can answer a wide range of important questions, such as: What impact are your programs and policies having? Are they operating as you intended them? Are you reaching the population you originally targeted? How much does your program cost and are the benefits from your program worth the cost? How can the data you are gathering about your programs be put to use in managing your programs and organization more effectively? KMH Consulting has extensive experience evaluating the programs and policies of community-based organizations, and regional, state, and federal agencies. We use multiple methods to conduct all phases of evaluation, from feasibility studies and process evaluations to outcome evaluations and cost-benefit analyses. And we conduct all levels of evaluation, from small, qualitative program evaluations to large, multi-site longitudinal evaluations. Our evaluation services include:
  • Feasibility studies
  • Process and implementation evaluations
  • Impact and outcome evaluations
  • Cost-benefit studies
Professional Training & Development
Need to bring your staff up to speed on a certain topic? Do you or your staff need to learn about human resources? Want to know how to collect, manage, and report realistic outcome measures for your programs? Does your staff know how to properly structure and manage case files for auditing and accreditation? KMH Consulting's staff and network of professionals can develop tailored training programs to meet your organization's need. Our training uses multi-modal techniques to maximize different learning styles. Services include:
  • One-on-one or group training
  • On-site training and distance learning opportunities
  • Developing customized, multi-format training materials (electronic, downloadable documentation, and hard copy request forms)


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Business, Intellectual Property Law, and other Legal Services
KMH Consulting's legal counsel, Guy W. Stilson, Esq., is a California licensed attorney whose services includes general business counseling, business formation (business and non-profit corporations, general and limited partnerships, limited liability companies, etc.), contract review and negotiation, protection and registration of copyrights, trade marks and trade secrets, litigation analysis, and formal representation in litigated matters. Mr. Stilson can be reached at (415) 981-6630 or via e-mail at gstilson@lowball.com.

Network Design, Integration and Management Services
Network Design Associates, Inc provides design, installation, service, and support of computer systems and computer networks. NDA supports multiple computing platforms including Novell Netware, Microsoft NT/2000, Unix and connectivity to host systems using multiple protocols. We also custom write applications.

NDA employs only the most experienced and highly skilled network engineers, technicians, and management personnel so we can provide our clients the finest service and support. Our engineers average over 10 years experience in the information technology industry typically coming from Fortune 1000 companies and government entities.

NDA may be reached at (916) 853-1632 or via e-mail at sales@nda-sac.com.