Community-Building Organizations – Community centers, JCC, BJEs, synagogues, churches
Suite of Services for Synagogues and Churches
Community Member Surveys
Measuring Success uses data-driven tools like customer surveys and financial models to frame clients’ decisions and enable a shift to fact based decision making. Many non profits, unfortunately tend to make decisions with very little data, using anecdotal observation, emotion, and influencers. This often leads to inconsistent and poor results. We generate observations and recommendations by directly soliciting stakeholder feedback to the status quo, determining causations and correlations, and teaching leadership to absorb the data and its strategic implications. Clients receive a customized report that details our analysis and findings with detailed, actionable recommendations for change.
- Gain a more accurate understanding of the needs, desires and expectations of your congregation.
- Benchmark and track the impact of your organization on the community it serves.
- Compare the performance of your congregation against that of other synagogues within your peer group.
- Find out which board and development activities (e.g., giving, soliciting, training and self-assessment), correlate with your school's financial health.
- Use the Benchmark Report to fundraise from donors who ask for a clear plan and measurable ROI.
Strategic Financial Modeling Tools
The Strategic Financial Modeling Tool enables schools to get into a “flight simulator” to test the financial consequences of various inputs, strategies, and financial decisions played out over 5 years. Since finance drive changes in strategy, this tool enables schools to dynamically generate various scenarios of their future finances under various strategies. In the simulator, schools can perform if-then planning in real-time by simultaneously “pulling” on various levers and “pushing” various buttons. The tool allows school leaders to address trade offs such as tuitions fees, enrollment, financial aid awards, expenditures and fundraising. School leaders can position their schools for stability and growth over multiple years by aligning their vision and mission with a plan for the resources the school can raise and spend.
- Financial modeling will help your organization address the strategic challenges and trade-offs of market position, membership, value proposition, expenditures, tuition, financial aid, fundraising, and savings.
- Leaders can position their organizations for stability and growth over multiple years by aligning their vision and mission with a plan for the resources their organization is to raise and spend.
- Using our tools to model the scenarios you’ve been contemplating and to understand the strategic and financial sustainability of those options will help to inform your board and leaderships conversations with data and not anecdote or conjecture.
Thought leadership
Upcoming Webinar: The 7 Steps for Data-Driven Decision MakingOur Latest Newsletter: The 7 Steps for Data-Driven Decision MakingFinancial Stability in an Uncertain MarketThe Peer Yardstick™ Toolkit
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Building Data CompetencyJane Katzman* is a non-profit professional who operates differently. She was hired as the associate director of Cornelian* because of her ability to connect with people and humanize the issues the organization promotes. While recognized as top talent in her field...Read more
Happenings
May 24: Joint Placement Commission of the Rabbinical Assembly; New York CityMay 25: Greater Washington Society of CPAs; Washington DC
May 26: Free Webinar: The 7 Steps for Data-Driven Decision Making
June 6-8: NRJE Annual Conference
being held at NYU
