Many nonprofits are taking an interim step before hiring a new full-time development person. They are hiring consultants or part-time staff to assume the new position, and then they decide if they can afford to transition to full-time. This is ideal if your nonprofit can’t afford a full-time person YET but needs consistent staffing to build the capacity to fundraise to sustain a full-time position.

Growth for Good has filled several of these “transitional” positions, providing much more than just “picking up the slack” or executing the tasks at hand. We provide consulting to a nonprofit’s fundraising and communications staff and board members.
In addition to getting the day-to-day work done, we can also:

• Assess and provide strategic action planning
• Define a new organizational structure which leads to ownership, without gaps or overlaps
• Guide new processes/procedures for management and workflow
• Institute best practices for fundraising, communications, and board engagement
• Train and provide valuable mentorship to junior staff
• Provide executive level leadership coaching, focused on team building
• Increase internal and external communication
• Facilitate tough decision-making among stakeholders
• Help hire and onboard new permanent staff, intimately knowing the skills needed and the group dynamics

And, because we are contracted with an end date, we can provide feedback with great candor!

Case Study: Brooklyn Community Housing and Services 

Last year our GfG partner Claudia Zeldin served as a part-time Executive Development Officer (EDO) at Brooklyn Community Housing and Services (BCHS). This is a new leadership position for BCHS and in her interim role Claudia conducted a board assessment, wrote a board development plan, helped support a new Board Committee on Trustees, helped implement personalized board engagement planning, and instituted a process for vetting and nominating new members. Additionally, BCHS has successfully onboarded two new board members. In the same year, Claudia worked with staff to draft a fundraising plan and provided support as BCHS launched a new website and held their 40^thAnniversary Gala. She focused on being a behind-the-scenes fundraising coach to the staff and board. We are proud to say that BCHS doubled its annual event revenue! Now, after taking the next steps in developing its fundraising culture and capacity, BCHS is hiring a full-time EDO to continue this growth.

Click here to see BCHS’ 40^th Anniversary website and Gala photos.
Click here to read a past GfG blog post on hiring interim senior staff.

Photo Credit: Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash; Fabrizio Verrecchia on Unsplash;We Love Photobooths

“As an interim Executive Development Officer, Claudia was a real help to me and the board. The results are there! She has set a high bar for a successor.” – Ben Baxt, Board Development and Communications Committee Chair, BCHS