NonProfit Consulting: Clients & Testimonials
PhilanthropyWorks takes great delight and pride in the clients we have served over the years. Here's what they're saying about us…
Resource Development
Susan has been a major asset to our school (for more than a decade) and our ability to find donors whose purpose matches our goals in providing service to a very needy population. Susan has always been very active in her pursuit of grants to benefit our school. She is thorough, organized and gets results. She is a pleasure to work with.
Dr. Joseph T. Coleman, Executive Director
Royer-Greaves School for Blind, Paoli, Pennsylvania
Leadership Development
The Board of Directors and Staff of Audrey’s Angels benefited greatly by the retreat that Susan Walling facilitated for us. It was a day long retreat filled with vital information to take our organization through the next step of growth. Susan met with key staff and board members prior to the retreat and researched and chose the best possible information to share with us per our organization’s needs. Susan held a follow up meeting with the entire board and staff as well and we are currently putting into practice what we learned at the retreat. Our board and staff members are more knowledgeable and more connected after having been educated by Susan Walling.
Linda Alderson, Executive Director
Audrey’s Angels, Phoenix, Arizona
Seminars
Susan Walling has been a guiding light for our organization for 5 years. Since the start of the Executive Directors RoundTable, The Harp Foundation, has taken an active role, mainly due to Susan's excellent consulting role—Board Development, Strategic Planning, Board Training and Notebook, Assessment Tools; and our foundation has set good standards and policies and procedures under her guidance. The format for the meetings is interactive. Real peer learning takes place with case studies that pertain to all the organizations. We have had complex Board and Staff human relations issues that have been worked through with the best possible outcomes, due to her guidance. She has attended functions that The Harp Foundation has sponsored and her willingness to stay involved has been the main reason why we call Susan the "GUIDING LIGHT" for our organization. I highly recommend to all Executive Directors the participation in her programs. Thank you Susan for your expertise, patience and willingness to share your wisdom!!!
Rev. Joyce Blair Buekers, Executive Director
The Harp Foundation, Phoenix, Arizona
My professional relationship with Susan began in the EDRT (Executive Directors RoundTable) and has evolved into a strong support role for myself as CEO of UMOM New Day Centers. Through this relationship I have gained the confidence and the affirmation in several areas to take UMOM to the next level. Her professional support and knowledge in Board development, organizational assessment, and strategic planning has enabled me to direct the agency through some very important growth stages..
Darlene Newsom, Chief Executive Officer
UMOM New Day Centers, Phoenix, Arizona
Executive Search
Susan, I would like to thank you for the extraordinary service you provided Camp Fire USA Greater Arizona Council in our search for our new President/CEO. I must commend you for your guidance and direction in the executive search process. I believe the process was managed by you with precision and appropriate flexibility in working with the Search Committee and Management staff to facilitate a decision on our new leader.
Thomas Avery, former Interim Executive Director
Camp Fire USA Greater Arizona Council
And here are some of the ways in which we work in partnership with our nonprofit community clients …
Leadership Development - Meeting Planning and Facilitation; Coaching
- Anytown America, Inc. (AZ) – board retreat
- Arizona Association of Providers for People with Disabilities (AZ) – Board/staff retreat
- Arizona Coalition for Transplantation (AZ) – board retreat
- Arizona Native Scholastic & Enrichment Resources Foundation (AZ) - executive coaching
- Arizona PIRG (AZ) – Leadership vision meeting
- Arizona School-Age Coalition (AZ) – board/staff retreat
- Audrey’s Angels (AZ) – board/staff retreat
- Brain Injury Association of Arizona (AZ) – board and executive staff leadership development
- Carelift International, Inc. (PA) - board/staff retreat
- Community Service Council of Chester County (PA) - executive coaching, board/staff retreat
- Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (NJ) - executive coaching, board/staff retreat
- Chamber Music West (AZ) – board/staff retreat
- Civitan Foundation (AZ) – board/staff retreat
- Desert Caballeros Western Museum (AZ) –board/staff retreat
- Good Shepherd Mediation Program (PA) – board/staff retreat
- Gnosis, Ltd., Cave Creek (AZ) - executive coaching
- Historic Yellow Springs (PA) – board retreat
- Lourdes HomeHealth Services (NJ) - executive coaching
- Mental Health Advocates Coalition of Arizona (AZ) - board retreat
- Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (PA) - board/staff retreat
- MOM Foundation (AZ) – organizational retreat, executive coaching
- Prescott POPS (AZ) – board retreat
- Royer-Greaves School for Blind (PA) - executive coaching
- Scottsdale Foundation for the Handicapped (AZ) - board/staff retreat
- Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (AZ) – planning and facilitating a collaborative-building meeting
- St. Luke's Health Initiatives (AZ) – Executive Directors RoundTable
- Tempe Community Council (AZ) – board evaluation workshop
- Theatre Works (AZ) – board retreat
- Valley Leadership (AZ) - board governance
- Waste Not (AZ) – board/staff retreat
- The Wellness Community - Philadelphia (PA) - executive coaching, board/staff retreat,board development
- Wickenburg Cultural Organization (AZ) – board/staff retreat
Fundraising & Resource Development
- Adult Care of Chester County (PA) - capital campaign
- America-Israel Friendship League (NY) – Grantseeking
- Archdiocese of Philadelphia-Catholic Health Care Services (PA) - Grantseeking
- Arizona Native Scholastic & Enrichment Resources Foundation (AZ) - special events
- Arizona School-Age Coalition (AZ) – board resource development training
- Camden-Wyoming Fire Company (DE) - feasibility study for capital campaign
- Carelift International (PA) - Grantseeking
- Community Service Council of Chester County (PA) - resource development planning, annual giving, grantseeking, data base selection
- Huntington’s Disease Society of America, Arizona Affiliate (AZ) - Grantseeking
- Lourdes HomeHealth Services (NJ) - implementing resource development and marketing plans, newsletter development
- Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (NJ) - Grantseeking
- Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PA) - proposal writing
- Royer-Greaves School for Blind (PA) – Grantseeking
- St. Luke's Health Initiatives (AZ) – fundraising workshops
- Tri-City Jewish Community Center (AZ) - Grantseeking
- VOX, The Renaissance Consort (PA) - Grantseeking
- The Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts (AZ) - inaugural membership campaign, grantseeking
- The Wellness Community - Philadelphia (PA) - Grantseeking, annual giving, capital campaign, special events
(Note: Grantseeking typically includes funder research, developing the organizational overview, proposal writing and stewardship; it may also include volunteer training.)
Marketing & Communications
- Adult Care of Chester County (PA) – annual report
- Arizona Association of Providers for People with Disabilities (AZ) – membership survey
- Arizona Native Scholastic & Enrichment Resources Foundation (AZ) - development of collateral materials
- Carelift International (PA) - case statement development, inaugural report
- Gnosis, Ltd. (AZ) - marketing planning
- Hispanic Century Fund (PA) –marketing planning
- Lourdes HomeHealth Services (NJ) - implementing marketing plans, newsletter development
- MOM Foundation (AZ) – case for support, marketing plan
- Nueva Esperanza (PA) – marketing planning
- Quality of Life Community Services (AZ) – collateral material
- Royer-Greaves School for Blind (PA) - image development, newsletter development
- VOX, The Renaissance Consort (PA) - marketing planning
- The Wellness Community - Philadelphia (PA) - newsletter development, marketing
Organizational Development & Strategic Planning
- Arizona School-Age Coalition (AZ) – organizational assessment
- BHHS Legacy Foundation/Boy & Girls Clubs of the Colorado River (AZ & NV) – organizational assessment, strategic planning
- Carelift International (PA) – strategic planning
- Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (NJ) – strategic planning
- Classroom, Inc. (NY) – establishing a development office
- Community Service Council of Chester County, West Chester, PA – resource development planning
- Gnosis, Ltd. (AZ) - resource development planning
- Hispanic Century Fund (PA) – resource development
- Lourdes HomeHealth Services (NJ) - resource development and marketing planning
- Mental Health Advocates Coalition of Arizona (AZ) – organizational assessment
- Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (PA) – strategic planning study, development performance audit, resource development planning
- Mission of Mercy (AZ) – organizational assessment, strategic resource development planning
- Mountain Park Health Center (AZ) – resource development planning
- Nueva Esperanza (PA) – resource development
- Scottsdale Foundation for the Handicapped (AZ) – development performance audit
- St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children (PA) – special events
- Stewart Huston Charitable Trust (PA) – strategic planning study
- The Wellness Community – Philadelphia (PA) – strategic planning
- VOX, The Renaissance Consort (PA) - resource development planning
- The Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts (AZ) - resource development planning
Executive Search
- Camp Fire USA Greater Arizona Council (AZ) – President/CEO
- Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (NJ) – Director of Development
- Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania (PA) – Vice President of Development
- New Directions Institute for Infant Brain Development (AZ) – Chief Operating Officer
- Nueva Esperanza, (PA) – Director of Development
- Scottsdale Foundation for the Handicapped (AZ) – Executive Director
- United Methodist Outreach Ministries (AZ) - Director of Development
Please Contact Us for more information. We'd love to talk with you about how our work in organizational capacity building will benefit you, your staff, board and volunteers.