Visual & Written Storytelling
Storytelling Services & Storytelling Training
All of my storytelling work — written or visual — is all custom to each organization’s unique needs. Get in touch and let’s create a unique plan that fits your organization’s needs and your budget.
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Organizational Growth & Coaching
If your nonprofit is standing on the brink of opportunity, needs to pivot to meet evolving needs, is experiencing big changes (good or bad), or needs to harness new efficiencies or processes, I’m here to help.
Whatever you are facing, I’ll work with you, your staff, and your board to assess your issues and needs, then build a plan to get you the skills and cohesion needed to run a great organization.
If you want to grow your organization, your team, or your impact, I’ve got you covered. Let’s discuss your needs!
Organizational Assessments
An organizational assessment is a powerful diagnostic tool to help your group adapt, survive, and thrive. Through a systematic research and analysis process, I gather and analyze an array of information about the performance of various aspects of your organization and the factors that impact performance.
When I take such a deep dive into your organization’s operations, you’ll get an analysis of performance, clear and concrete suggestions for improvements, and urgency and cost ratings to help you best allocate time and resources for maximum return on investment.
Teambuilding
Today’s nonprofits are fast paced, often under-funded, and riddled with unpredictable situations daily. At the heart of impactful operations is an effective team capable of dealing with it all. A healthy workplace starts with a team — from board to staff to volunteers — that knows how to properly transform stress, urgent needs, and untapped opportunity into productive energy and high output programming.
Bring me in to build your team, strengthen camaraderie, eliminate conflict, and recognize stakeholder inputs and talents. Let’s assess your needs and design tactics, exercises, and programs to inspire your team to peak performance.
Coaching & Professional Development
Perhaps you’ve transitioned into a new role. Maybe you want to learn new skills like public speaking, fundraising, or running great meetings. Or maybe this describes someone on your team. Either way, I can help.
My work combines goal setting, personal coaching and support, self-assessment, and learning and productivity tools to help you identify and achieve your career or team goals, move through transition, and grow overall productivity.
Board & Staff Retreats
When it comes to bringing a group together to do good even better, I really deliver. My teambuilding-driven interactive retreats, workshops, and trainings are ideal for board members, staff, and volunteers seeking to develop new skills, work through organizational challenges, and build a stronger sense of collaboration. Whether for an evening or over a weekend, such sessions offer the time and space to acknowledge successes, discuss and address challenges, and celebrate achievements.
Adept as a facilitator, I blend discussion and small group activities, individual reflection, and personal action planning that leave attendees feeling recognized, refreshed, reinvigorated, and ready to re-engage with the work at hand.
Other Customized Organizational Development Services
My work is all custom to each organization’s unique needs. My main goal is getting you what you need. Let’s chat to access your needs and develop a custom plan to conquer it.
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Strategic Planning
It’s the thing that everyone groans about having to do, but that everyone knows you should do.
A well-done strategic plan — and process for creating one — can be like magic for your organization, setting a clear and inspring path in place for your team to join together in building your desired future.
I don’t do boring strategic planning. To your process I bring energy. Excitement. Involvement. Inspiration. The plans I create don’t collect dust, they capture ideas, corral needs, and allocate resources in an easy-to-understand, updatable written plan to keep and your team on track, on time, and on point.
Let’s partner to put your vision in writing and get your team the plan you need to intentionally build success.
Strategic Planning
Imagine heading out on vacation without a single plan considered: lodging, food, gas, or even GPS. You don’t have a suitcase and haven’t even checked your bank account to see if you can afford to go.
Sure, impromptu road trips can sometimes be fun. But if it feels like your organization is on a whirlwind multi-year impromptu roller coaster of a road trip, it’s probably time for a strategic plan.
Well done strategic plans drive well-oiled, high-performing organizations and teams. The process and outcomes help your team jointly develop and agree on priorities essential to your mission, be responsive to current and future situations, and be intentional and pro-active in allocating resources to achieve priorities.
With me facilitating your planning needs, your team will experience a high-energy and motivating and even fun strategic planning process that brings your stakeholders to the table filled with ideas and energy and leaving with direction and momentum. The living, breathing document that results will provide everyone with a solid and clear path to your future, inspire them to action, and fuel your mission — and your coffers.
Marketing/Communications, Fundraising & Program Plans
Like a strategic plan guides overall organizational efforts, your fundraising, marketing & communications, and programs should all also be guided by annual and/or multi-year plans.
You won’t find bland consultant-speak in the plans I’ll help you create. What you’ll get are clear goals and action steps, along with identified roles for who does what and when. Checklists help you track accomplishments and what needs attention. To get your plans developed, team members will work side-by-side with me to create use-able, exciting roadmaps for action and maximum returns.
Facilitation & Teambuilding Services
Need to host a board or staff retreat? A community listening session? A facilitator for a teambuilding session? Hit me up. From a couple hours to a weekend-long retreat, I will help plan your needs and be sure that all voices are heard and appreciated in a meaningful and useful way.
Other Customized Planning Services
My planning work is all custom to each organization’s individual needs. Let’s chat to create a unique plan that fits your organization’s specific needs and budget.
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Marketing & Communications
Looking to really amp up your marketing and outreach, but don’t have a ton to spend to do so? I hear you! And I know how to help!
Marketing & Outreach Workshops
I really deliver when it comes to training your group to do good even better. My goal? To both help you and train you in doing the work that needs to be done by bringing low-cost, high-impact techniques that really work. My high-impact interactive workshops and trainings are perfect for board members, staff, and volunteers with sessions blended with teaching, discussion, small group activities, and personal action planning to give participants the information and the motivation they need to be successful cheerleaders and ambassadors for your cause.
Storytelling & Storytelling Training
In your line of work, you can numb ’em with numbers or you can snag ’em with stories. A clever combination of both can steal donors’ hearts while delivering confidence to boost donations and volunteerism. Storytelling is one of the most effective ways to engage audiences, and here I really shine. I know storytelling is not a talent all possess. Fortunately, I do! Leverage my talents here to help you touch donor emotions, change community attitudes, raise more money, and win over audiences using written and visual stories.
Design & Copy Upgrades for Online & Print Materials
Strong visual communications have never been more important in staying competitive in the nonprofit world. Gone are the days of clip art, dated and dusty logos, piecemeal websites, and tri-fold brochures. Let me help you breathe new life into your communications! My specialties include eye-catching materials (written, designed, and photography) for use both in print and online. I can help with everything from brochures to enewsletters to web copy to social media content.
Media & Government Relations
I bring decades of experience working with the media and developing media campaigns, pitching stories, writing press releases, running press conferences, and with on-air, taped, and live appearances. I’ve even served in elected office! All this provides you with unique and high-value input and training on navigating complicated bureaucracies, interfacing with staff and elected officials, and effectively lobbying and campaigning to promote your cause.
Other Customized Marketing, Outreach & Communications Services
My work in this area is all custom to your organization’s needs. Let’s chat to develop a unique plan that fits your organization’s needs and budget.
Click here to schedule a free 30-minute meeting to talk and start a plan for success!
Fundraising
I love helping and teaching nonprofits how to fundraise and have FUN while doing it! From fundraising letters to annual campaigns to donor software to data analysis to development planning, let me help you leverage the resources you have and turn them into successful strategies to raise money.
Let’s partner to create realistic plans and powerful strategies. Let’s discuss the letters, materials, ideas, tools, and language you need to achieve high-impact success. We should also talk about the high-energy and eye-opening fundraising trainings I offer that inspire, motivate, and guide teams in learning how to fundraise using easy — and even fun — strategies.
If you want to raise more money, let’s talk and create a custom plan your nonprofit’s specific needs and budget.
Customized fundraising services, trainings & coaching
All of my fundraising and development work is custom to each organization’s individual needs, resources, capabilities, and opportunities. This means I build a workplan specific for you, your team, your needs, and responsive to your resources and capabilities. Check out some of my success stories here.
So, let’s set up a time to talk to find the perfect plan for your nonprofit to generate the fundraising and donor engagement results you need!
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Laura’s Got You Covered
If you need high-impact, hard-hitting and realistic advice and help for your nonprofit, Laura‘s got you covered.
She brings her 25 years of experience, her unbridled passion for doing good, and her practical, impact-oriented approach to help your organization with its unique needs.
