Summer Newsletter – Evaluation + new team member

By Schonfield Consulting | October 17, 2024 |

During this time of summer travel and big political change (!), we’re writing with an update from Schonfield Consulting. We’ve had a busy summer with some recent travel, several new clients and a new team member. See more below.

We’d love to hear from you! Please reach out if you have a project to discuss or just to fill us in on your news and updates.

Happy summer!

Anne and the Schonfield Consulting Team

Evaluation for Michigan Saves

In April we began working with Michigan Saves, the nation’s first nonprofit green bank based in Lansing Michigan. In 2022, Michigan Saves launched the Lead Poisoning Prevention Fund (with support from the state of Michigan) to help families address lead paint hazards in homes, with subsidized loans for lead abatement. Many older homes in Michigan have lead-based paint, which poses health hazards to kids and other family members. Michigan Saves hired Schonfield Consulting to conduct an evaluation of the Lead Fund to better understand the success and challenges of this important program. We’re working closely with Michigan Saves on stakeholder interviews, a survey of 600+ participants and other evaluation efforts. We’re eager to analyze the results and help the Lead Fund reach more Michiganders with lead abatement loans and support.

Learn more about Michigan Saves

Fundraising Plan for One Treasure Island

Since early 2024, we’ve worked with One Treasure Island (One TI) a Bay Area nonprofit, to help sustain and expand their fundraising. Based on Treasure Island (a neighborhood of San Francisco), One TI is working with others to create an equitable, inclusive and thriving mixed-income community for all Treasure Island residents and businesses. One TI focuses on low income households and those who have experienced homelessness. We’re working closely with their leadership and Board to create a Fund Development Plan with clear goals for the next 3 years, and train staff and Board on fundraising efforts (see photo above from Board training in May). We’re thrilled to support this vibrant community organization and help them increase their funds and resources.

Learn more about One Treasure Island

Welcome Noah!

We’re so happy to welcome Noah Schuettge to the Schonfield Consulting team! Noah is a coach, facilitator, and therapist who believes that building inclusive organizations can lead to impactful strategy and operational success. Noah has worked as a community organizer, educator, leadership coach, and trainer with nonprofit, education, and legal organizations. Noah is our newest Associate Consultant, working closely with Anne on multiple projects and is already a valuable member of our team. Right on, Noah!

Learn more about our team

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Tagged Fundraising, Hiring, Michigan Saves, One Treasure Island, Strategic Planning, Team

"Anne is the quintessential consultant — she listens well, asks good questions, is easy to work with, and a great "thought partner." She is the person you want on your team if you want to get s**t done and not waste time. I will work with Anne anytime."

“Anne and her team bring a wealth of experience in process design, community investment best practices, and clarity of objectives and program metrics. I would definitely recommend Schonfield Consulting for their rigor and drive to achieve results.”

“Anne and her team played an integral role in designing and implementing Well Being Trust's grant making. Anne is extremely efficient and good at moving things forward. I value Anne’s input tremendously and appreciate her warm and positive manner.”

“Anne and Amy did a marvelous job with our strategic plan -- sensitive to the needs of staff, leadership and Board; focused and efficient; encouraging and relentless. Hidden Villa made an excellent choice to work with Schonfield Consulting.”

“Anne is brilliant at strategic planning. She worked with the NRDC India team to chart our vision and plan for two plans spanning 10 years. She guided a tough task to successful completion by keeping us on target. I highly recommend Anne!”

"Anne is a pleasure to work with and guides you through the difficult strategic planning process with thoughtfulness, passion, and a great work ethic!”

"The ABPAS business plan that Schonfield Consulting helped us develop clearly explains our mission to investors and donors. The research Eva did was comprehensive and well-presented. The services provided by Anne and Eva can definitely help propel many other agencies like ours.”

"We needed someone who was independent, highly focused and knowledgable about capturing data from nonprofits. The final report was excellent. Thanks for taking on Fresno!"

"Anne is a valued colleague and I highly recommend her to anyone needing a top notch consultant... The quality of her work is excellent and her ability to turn it around quickly was very impressive."

"Thank you for carrying us through this process. The end result is pretty dramatic, thanks to your careful eye, your methodical work, and your creative suggestions. You’re a superstar!"

"From her insights into fundraising, to her pointed questions on strategy and her well-organized agendas -- Anne's support has been invaluable. Anne has great energy and is an important member of the TAHMO team."

"Anne has done excellent consultancy work. Her research and review of grant materials produced high quality outputs—she asked tough questions and delivered on time. I would highly recommend Anne."

"That was a great event. Thanks so much for a fantastic facilitation – you know your job and you do it very well! I'm already looking forward to next year’s meeting."

"Working with Anne was extremely excellent! We were very happy with the board retreat and initial strategic planning. The summary report from the retreat is great and goes a long ways to setting a future agenda for CCS."

"Thanks for the excellent job on the case studies. I presented your work at the convening and it garnered a lot of attention. I’m excited to see how things move forward!"

"It was a pleasure working with Schonfield Consulting on our health program evaluation. Anne was super thoughtful and organized, and helped us translate lots of data into a very useful product for our Board."

“Anne provides us with excellent fundraising advice. She put a lot of time and thinking into an excellent fundraising retreat with Board and staff. We did some darn good work and had a good time doing it!”