Is your community striving to address complex social issues such as ending homelessness, solving the childcare crisis, or strengthening the workforce? These challenges require a collective effort; no single entity can tackle them alone. By using community indicators,...
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What is an Anchor Collaborative?
Many communities struggle with low education, high poverty, and crime rates. Disinvestment hinders progress, but an anchor collaborative can help drive lasting change for a brighter future. As Montclair State University (Montclair) and Transform Consulting Group (TCG)...
10 Tips for Your Year-End Giving Campaign
Another year is quickly coming to an end! Before you know it, we’ll be saying “Happy New Year”. We’re heading into the season of giving. It is the busy time of year when donor dollars increase significantly. Year-end giving trends suggest that nearly one-third of...
How to Establish and Manage an Advisory Council
If you’ve followed along with Transform Consulting Group for a while, then you’ve probably seen us talk about our desire to work with you rather than for you. This is one of our many differentiators. We’re passionate about coming alongside you - our fellow...
Marketing 101: 5 Ways to Enhance Your Social Media
At Transform Consulting Group, we see many organizations launch services and programs in response to an obvious need in the community or a gap to address. Your organization is getting into your work, because you have a passion for a cause. Too often nonprofits spend...
Step 4 of the Strategic Planning Process: Create the Strategic Plan
3 Strategic Planning Tools to Create Congratulations! You have journeyed through the four steps of our strategic planning process, and you’re ready for the final step: Create the strategic plan. (We covered steps 1, step 2, and step 3 in previous blogs). The goal of a...
Sharing Your Organization’s Story with Video
As the Communication Manager at Transform Consulting Group, storytelling is one of my favorite parts of this job. I love sharing what our clients - fellow Transformers - are doing nationwide to impact children, families, and communities. We've talked a lot about how...
Step 3 of the Strategic Planning Process: Facilitate Consensus
How to Reach Consensus on Your Strategic Plan We are continuing our blog series on strategic planning by focusing on Step 3 of our 4 Step Strategic Planning Process: Facilitate Consensus. Read more about our previous strategic planning blogs in this series here, here,...
Step 2 of the Strategic Planning Process: Analyze the Organization and Landscape
At Transform Consulting Group (TCG), data informs everything we do when working with clients. It should be no surprise that our #datanerds will spend most of our engagement assessing your data to inform the overall direction of your plan. It’s a critical step in the...
4 Steps of Strategic Planning
“If you don’t know where you are going, how are you gonna’ know when you get there?” Yogi Berra We have the privilege of working with organizations to help them create their “road map” or strategic plan for the next 3-5 years. In the course of completing these...