Private & Community Foundations
Grow Your Foundation Strategically
Do you have an active Strategic Plan, but regrettably it has been getting dusty? Or maybe you just think you could use an accountability partner to give you some tools to find more success in executing your active plan. Our Executive Strategic Coach will help you get that ball rolling again. Our Executive Strategy Coaching Program will set you up for success and guide you to keeping your team on track for implementation.
This service includes six (6) coaching sessions, surveys, personality assessment, and accountability check-ins over 90 days (renewal opportunities are popular among clients).
Beacon’s Principal Strategist will work with your strategic leader one-on-one, providing the tools and support you need to lead your team. She brings a wealth of philanthropic foundation expertise and fresh insights to propel your strategic planning efforts forward. She will guide you in creating optimal relationships with potential donors and will set you up for success with your team. Beacon’s approach is research-based, data driven, and inspired by creativity and out-of-the-box thinking.
Every coaching session is completely customized to fit your unique needs. Here are a few things we might touch on during these one-on-one sessions:
Reviewing and checking in on status of current strategic plan
Accountability to strategic initiative progress
Listening to your challenges and barriers and exploring possibilities
Succession Planning & Executive Transition Management
Strategies for making essential community connections
Donor-centricity strategies
Strategic planning leadership skills
Diversity growth in all things
Mind mapping & brainstorming
Exploring current trends concepts in philanthropy
Optimizing your relationships with partners
Exploring your community impact
Exploring how to best appeal to your potential donors
Donor Recruitment, Retention, and Selective Supporter Upgrade strategies
Other topics as needed
When you sign up you will receive a Pre-Coaching Survey so we can gain a better understanding of your challenges and goals.
Workshops & Training
Our highly interactive bootcamp-style workshops are customized to your foundation’s strategic needs. They are developed using the SAVI (Somatic, Auditory, Visual, Intellectual) and Accelerated Learning for Adults methods to optimize the experience for every individual participant. You will leave inspired to immediately implement what you have learned.
Highlighted Workshops:
Build Your Grants Team 101
Capital Campaign Planning
Strategic Planning for Foundations
Powerhouse Board of Directors
Executive Strategic Coaching
Leading a CASA program is not for the faint of heart. Your job is essential, and you have to get it done without enough time nor resources. Your focus shifts from fundraising to volunteers to staff on a minute-to-minute basis. You need support!
Investing in an Executive Strategic Coach specializing in CASA will help you move the needle on your strategic goals. You’ll get a loyal accountability partner providing you with constant inspiration and plenty of CASA expertise and tools.
This program is designed as a one-on-one six session series, meeting every other week.
A Strategic Coach will help you get that ball rolling again. Our Executive Strategic Coaching sets CASA programs up for success and guides them in keeping their team on track for transformational implementation so they can best serve the most vulnerable children in the community.
Strategic Planning
Do you have an active strategic plan, but regrettably it has been primarily to check the box? This comprehensive and interactive Strategic Planning (SP) package is designed specifically for foundations that have the goal of growing to meet their community’s needs and are ready to launch into the next chapter of their expanded impact. Our SP development process is created with a DEI lens, ensuring all people and cultures are respected and valued. We meet you where you are in your planning process and build upon the work you have already achieved, guiding your team to the fruition of a transformational strategic direction.
Includes training on:
Focus Groups, Surveying, & Interviewing
SWOT & Internal/External Research
Conducting Case Studies
Facilitating Strategy Sessions
Retreat Planning
Strategic Plan Document & Summary
Strategy Coach
Founder Bio
Theresa Collins is the Founder and Principal Strategist at Beacon Organizational Consulting. She brings two decades of experience in the nonprofit and organizational development industries. She holds a Master’s degree in Management & Organizational Development with a Training emphasis and a double Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Social Change & Development with a Law & Justice emphasis.
After growing up in foster care from age 7, and then aging out of the system, Theresa has dedicated her life to making the world a better place. She has extensive professional and personal experience specifically in the areas of foundations, homelessness, child abuse and neglect, foster care resources, youth services, mental health clubhouses, recovery, community action programs, and business development. She has raised millions of dollars to fund community projects, events, and services across the country. She coined the term and lives the life of #FosterKidFierce, demonstrating that foster kids have tools beyond their awareness that they can use to positively alter the currently bleak statistics.
Community service and involvement are key values for Theresa. She was a Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) volunteer for 8 years, a foster and respite parent, a national and chapter member of the Grant Professionals Association and the Association of Fundraising Professionals, a board member of Foster Families & Friends, founding board member with the Boys & Girls Club of Manitowoc County, a mayor-appointed member of the Citizen Advisory Council for the city of Manitowoc, a Future 15 Award recipient of the Chamber of Manitowoc County’s Young Professionals, and has also served on the boards of a mental health clubhouse, social justice organizations, and CASA, among others. Theresa is an active member of the Council on Foundations and the Chamber of Commerce.
Due to her background as a foster child, Theresa has moved around the county and lived in several states as a child. She spent her early adult life in Arizona and Wisconsin, and recently moved to her forever home on a beautiful horse ranch hobby farm in Rolla, Missouri, where she is settling into a country life with horses, chickens, ducks, bunnies, and their new beloved ‘stray’ dog, Rexy. She enjoys a beautiful family with a deeply supportive husband and three kids, two younger boys and a daughter in college!
