Raise Your Voice For Nonprofit Success

If you are in the business of nonprofit institutional advancement you are concerned if not downright worried that your organization may not survive the economic tsunami.

…and you are not alone.

It is estimated that there are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in the United States. Prof. Paul Light, NYU, has estimated that as many as 200,000 nonprofit organizations will be forced to close their doors!

If you are involved in a nonprofit organization WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU!

What are your concerns? What do you need to stay engaged in your mission?

Nonprofit organizations are most often getting by on a shoe string budget and there is little margin for such things as a massive global recession.

Here are a few reasons why organizations fail to succeed regardless of a sluggish economy:

1. They don’t have a compelling message
2. They don’t articulate their impact on the community or nation. Only 2% of nonprofit organizations are objectively measuring their impact.
3. They don’t have stated goals
4. They don’t have stated objectives to reach goals
5. They don’t self evaluate themselves or their programs
6. They don’t ask for money
7. Their mission statements do not tell “why” they exist
8. They don’t collaborate and are territorial; mergers don’t seem palatable
9. The organization’s founder is set in his/her ways and won’t change strategy
10. The organization has no clue what governance and compliance is; however it will
soon be evident with the new Form 990.


Let us help you by helping us…

Picasso Strategic Solutions will be facilitating several seminars in your local communities on the issues that YOU want to hear regarding nonprofit advancement.

Please write us and let us know what topics you would be most interested in discussing.

With more than 30 years in nonprofit institutional advancement, I/we hope to help you formulate a strategy to maximize your impact in 2010.

Raise Your Voices and Be Heard! We look forward to hearing from you.

For now,

Lisa Benson