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KrasnePlows augments our own nonprofit, for-profit and board experience with other seasoned executives where needed to provide the expertise our clients need for a specific engagement. Our partners share our values -- they are collaborative in their approach, put the client's interest first, deliver superior quality work and maintain the highest ethical standards. Together, we offer a seamless team that can address a client's key issues while maintaining the personal touch characteristic of a boutique consulting firm.
Cora Group
Cora Group is a consulting practice dedicated to helping organizations meet new challenges through learning systems that promote the capacity for change and innovation. Established in 1988, Cora Group designs and delivers organizational and human resource systems that maximize workforce capabilities and results. It helps organizations capitalize on their human potential to meet the business demands of the changing workforce and global economy.
Cora Group offers extensive expertise in program design, evaluation and training delivery, working with clients to develop and retain motivated staff. Its multi-disciplinary consulting teams serve corporate, government, foundation and not-for-profit clients, often around diversity and cross-cultural issues.
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DCA, Inc.
DCA®, founded in 1991, is a consulting firm dedicated to helping clients build support for achieving large-scale social progress. It works with clients when they seek to create major new initiatives, reinvigorate progress on their mission, leverage philanthropic investments for greater impact, or attract financial support for their work. The firm has worked with organizations on some of the major issues of the day – AIDS prevention and treatment; early childhood education; preventing youth smoking; reducing substance abuse; and eliminating diseases that afflict millions in developing nations.
DCA has helped clients create and conduct campaigns that have raised more than $200 million to eliminate leading causes of blindness, child mortality, and mental retardation worldwide; create coalitions to improve school readiness, literacy, early childhood care, and public health; create the world’s first endowed chairs in an emerging medical specialty; design and launch the nation’s largest privately funded organization and campaign to protect youth from tobacco addiction; dramatically expand what has become the world’s largest clinician training program for the treatment of HIV/AIDS; and prepare campaigns for causes such as global poverty alleviation, advancing women’s health, and improving educational opportunity for children with disabilities.
DCA consultants have served as senior external affairs staff in institutions such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. DCA, a Boston-based firm, has provided strategic resource and program development counsel to the Division of Sleep Medicine, the Division of Social Medicine/Partners in Health and the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, all affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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Fiscal Management Associates, LLC
Fiscal Management Associates, LLC (FMA) provides a range of fiscal management, accounting, and organizational consulting services to nonprofit organizations. FMA provides customized infrastructure development and support tools nonprofits need to build the necessary framework for future growth. At the core of FMA's services is its Fiscal Infrastructure Review, which evaluates an organization's existing fiscal operations structure and provides recommendations and tools to retain what works and improves or replaces what doesn't.
FMA works with nonprofit organizations to put in place effective accounting and financial reporting systems, offers outsourced fiscal management services, and provides specialized management assistance to support funders' capacity-building programs to constituent agencies.
Hilda H. Polanco, CPA, is the managing director of FMA. Over the last twelve years she has built a specialized consulting practice focused on helping nonprofit agencies create and maintain effective fiscal systems and policies, as well as to develop a cost-efficient technology and human resource infrastructure. A recognized expert in this field, Hilda is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Not-for-Profit Institute. She has conducted fiscal management workshops for various nonprofit organizations as part of technical assistance provided by The Robin Hood Foundation; FITA (Fiscal Infrastructure Technical Assistance Initiative), a service division of Medical and Health Research Association of New York City, Inc.; and The After School Corporation (TASC).
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Leadership Recruiters
Leadership Recruiters offers practical expertise in strategic staffing for socially responsible organizations. Its services are customized to meet each organization?s specific needs, working to build high performance leadership teams. Leadership Recruiters approach emphasizes its understanding and focus on cultural competencies - making the determination of a cultural fit for both the candidate and the organization.
Priscilla Rosenwald, founder and principal, has 20 years of experience in organizational consulting, executive hiring and management within the nonprofit and corporate sectors. She offers a unique perspective to her clients and partners with them to improve organizational effectiveness. Before establishing Leadership Recruiters, Priscilla was an executive recruiter with Heidrick & Struggles, Inc., one of the world?s largest executive search firms, where she placed chief executives and board members in various organizations. She previously served as principal of HealthLink, a consulting firm specializing in board development, strategic planning and project management for non-profit organizations. A recognized expert, Priscilla has served as an adjunct faculty member of the Nonprofit Center at LaSalle, Temple University and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She has made numerous presentations on recruitment and retention issues and also serves on various professional and cultural boards, including the Advisory Board of the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Report.
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Nonprofit Consulting Services, a Program of Public Health Solutions
Public Health Solutions develops, implements and advocates dynamic solutions to prevent disease and improve community health. It conducts comprehensive research providing insight on public health issues, creates and manages community health programs, and provides services to agencies to address public health challenges. Through its Nonprofit Consulting Services program, Public Health Solutions provides assistance that enables nonprofit organizations and government agencies to enhance their effectiveness, strengthen capacity, and efficiently manage funds. As a result, organizations operate more effective and efficient programs to better achieve positive change for the individuals and communities they serve.
Public Health Solutions' Nonprofit Consulting Services program provides training and tailored one-on-one technical support on: financial planning, accounting and budgeting; program planning and evaluation, and; IT and Internet solutions for client outreach and education. It also incubates programs and provides back-office support services.
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Nonprofit Finance Fund
Since its inception in 1980, Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) has become a national leader in meeting the financial and organizational needs of the nonprofit sector. NFF works to create a strong, well-capitalized and durable nonprofit sector that connects money to mission effectively. True to its mission, NFF has helped thousands of organizations strengthen their financial health and improve their capacity to serve their communities. NFF serves both nonprofits and their funders, offering an integrated package of financial and advisory services, including loans, asset-building programs, workshops, business analyses, and other consultations to help nonprofit managers understand the impact of management and program decisions on their finances.
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The LaGreca Company
The LaGreca Company (TLC) provides consulting, training and coaching services to nonprofit organizations, corporations and professional firms interested in developing their human capital and relationships with their local nonprofit community. TLC also works with public and private funders that support nonprofit organizations. TLC works with its clients to address their continual need to adapt to ensure success, frequently facilitating meetings and conducting training workshops.
Prior to establishing TLC in 1999, David LaGreca spent eight years as a consultant at the Volunteer Consulting Group (VCG). Previously he was the administrator for the department of surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. A former priest, he also taught at Boston and Providence Colleges.
Mr. LaGreca currently serves on the board of Governance Matters and on the Advisory Board for the MBA-Nonprofit Connection. He has served the boards of Hospice Care of Rhode Island and McAuley House (Providence, RI). He served as chair of the board of Body Positive of New York for five years.
Mr. LaGreca contributed a chapter to Secrets of Successful Boards: The Best from the Non-Profit Pros (compiled and edited by Carol Weisman, 1998) and a chapter on fundraising in the corporate community in Secrets of Successful Fund Raising. He recently published a chapter on implementation issues surrounding strategic planning in a new book, Secrets of Successful Retreats.
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