Establishment of a Non-Profit Organization
Analyze your strengths and capitalize on those programs that deliver the most service to your constituents.
Zim Consulting has the experience and breadth of programming excellence to take you from good to great.
- Volunteer engagement
- Cross-agency collaboration
- Focus group recruitment and facilitation
- Alumni programming
- Development consulting
Increase your resources through annual campaigns, planned giving, special campaigns, corporate sponsorships, and grants.
We assist you in selecting the best avenue and path for you to take, walk you through the steps to reach your goals, and teach you to manage this fundamental process within your own team.
- Endowment planning and campaign coordination
- Benevon (Raising More Money) model
- Major gifts
- Corporate sponsorships
- Special events
- Database creation
- e-Philanthropy
Expand your visibility by refining your messages, multiplying your audiences, and diversifying your communications.
Zim Consulting is highly skilled in developing marketing plans and executing to deliver the expected results.
- Branding
- Web-site design and management
- Community event coordination
- Special event management
- Appreciation events
- Major gifts
- Alumni events
- Creative events
- Internal and external marketing
- Membership campaigns
- Targeted direct marketing
Strengthen your organization's purpose for sustainable support through customized board development, strategic planning, and volunteer development.
Training and development of key staff members and developing well-rounded Boards of Directors is crucial to the long-term effectiveness of your organization.
- Non-profit start-up planning
- 360' leadership analysis
- Organizational analysis and assessments
- Program development and evaluation
- Executive coaching
- Board recruitment and training
- Volunteer engagement
- Staff training and mentoring
- Group facilitation
- Feasibility studies
- Administrative guidance and support
- Focus group recruitment and facilitation
Zim Consulting creates customized, easy to use and current
research reports on all potential funders focusing on relevancy and success possibilities. Once complete, Zim will either write a template grant for clients to cut and paste the language or will manage an organizations' entire grant program writing all grants and reports.
- In-depth research of potential and appropriate funders
- Expert grant writing and support
- Reporting management
- Calendaring system
- On-going communication and reporting for the client
Zim Consulting specializes in supporting Foundations and their specific set of needs. Zim works with each Foundation to identify and address needs by listening, understanding, planning, and implementing.
- Manage, administer, and develop financial systems
- Develop mission and vision statements and provide board develoment and training
- Provide grant management services including site visits, administering grants, designing and managing grant requests, and facilitating grant reviews
- Research new and existing opportunities for funding and developing implementation plans
- Create websites
- Develop marketing strategies, materials, and systems
- Prepare, develop, implement, and report on evaluation processes
Establishment of a Non-Profit Organization
Zim Consulting completes all aspects of establishing a legally-recognized non-profit organization.
- Writing organizational by-laws
- Writing Articles of Incorporation
- Filing all required forms with the state and federal governments
- Attainment of an Employee Identification Number (EIN)