Fall Greetings From Schonfield Consulting

By Schonfield Consulting | December 8, 2022 |

As we move towards winter and continue to witness very challenging events around our country and the world, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and discouraged. But we’re finding many rays of hope and incredible inspiration in the organizations and clients we’re supporting. See more below about several of our game-changing clients and the unique services they offer.

Please reach out to us if you have a project you’d like to discuss or just to say hi. We’d love to hear from you!

In partnership,

Anne and the Schonfield Consulting Team

Strategic Plan for Peninsula Family Service

Schonfield Consulting worked with Peninsula Family Service (a large social service agency headquartered in San Mateo, CA) to develop their 4-year strategic plan. To gain input for the plan, we facilitated an in-person Board and staff retreat, and conducted in-depth surveys and interviews of staff, Board members, and 1000+ program participants. These tools helped stakeholders reflect on the organization’s strengths, challenges, and opportunities going forward. We also led a retreat with PFS Advancement staff to develop a detailed “roadmap” that can be used to operationalize the plan.

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Business Plan for Abilicorps

In the spring and summer of 2021, Schonfield Consulting worked with Abilicorp (an Oakland-based, disability rights organization) to create a business plan for their new social enterprise, focused on personal/home attendant care. We worked closely with Abilicorp founder Neil Jacobson (retired Senior VP at Wells Fargo and life-long disability movement advocate) and his team to create a business plan that will help people with disabilities gain access to reliable, well-paid personal assistant services. We also supported Abilicorp to create a pilot program that will serve many seniors and people with disabilities in the East Bay.

Learn more about Abilicorps

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Strategic Planning With Episcopal Impact Fund

We’re thrilled to partner with the Episcopal Impact Fund, the outreach arm of the Episcopal Diocese of California. The Impact Fund’s mission is to support organizations and churches addressing the root causes of poverty in the Bay Area, focused on affordable housing and youth services. We’re working closely with the Fund’s Executive Director and Board to create a dynamic strategic plan with input from a full-day Board retreat, key stakeholder interviews, and other feedback. The final strategic plan will guide the Impact Fund for the next three years.

Learn more about Episcopal Impact Fund

Our Team

Earlier this year, we welcomed Associate Consultant Eva Orbuch to the team. Eva has a deep background in the social impact sector, having worked as a teacher, community organizer, organizational development consultant, facilitator, and life/leadership coach. Eva holds a BA from Stanford University and an MA from Loyola Marymount University. Welcome Eva!

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"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!”