Ten Essentials for 2010
- Spend more time pursuing future success than reflecting on past failure.
- Create a team that shares your vision - in word and action.
- Seek to change behaviors not people. Allow lessons from both.
- Stop talking about creating a donor culture - and just do it.
- Document evolution and the path you take for excellence.
- Select partners that have something to offer.
- Be open to difference. Iron does indeed sharpen iron.
- Leave a legacy by your day to day actions.
- Simplify your to do list - create an ultimate not-to-do list.
- Ask from others only what you are willing to do yourself.
Pursuing Excellence with... The Boner Center
CICOA Aging and In Home Solutions
Community Cancer Network
Community Housing Network
Emberwood
Hoosier Oncology Group
PrimeLife Enrichment Inc.
Purpose of Life Ministries
The Martin Center, Inc.
The Tamarindo Foundation, Inc.
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BE more effective. HAVE greater impact. RAISE more money. LEAVE a legacy.
Capacity building is a term commonly used to refer to the development of an organization’s core skills and capabilities, such as leadership, management, finance and fundraising, programs and evaluation. Its purpose is to build the organization’s effectiveness and sustainability. It is the process of assisting an organization to identify issues and gain the insights, knowledge and experience needed to solve problems and implement positive change. Capacity building is facilitated through the provision of technical support, including coaching, training, facilitation and networking.
Strong organizations are able to identify, address and prepare for the challenges that impact governance, operations, fund development, technology and planning. Information alone does not help to create the culture, paradigm and commitment required to affect positive change. ALlyd Image Solutions partners with your executive leadership team to facilitate capacity building. Allyd does this by providing an effective business assessment, tools that strengthen infrastructure, a tangible capacity building process, clear objectives and time. ALlyd will help your organization leverage its inherent strengths to translate vision into manageable action steps.
Together, we will build the skills that leave a phenomenal legacy in the lives of the people you serve.
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| Its clear that the impact of the recession will last much longer for non-profit agencies. Strong organizations, regardless of mission, determine their destiny not by external factors - but based on proactive decisions about how to move forward. Change is a constant. We should never spend more time evaluating past failure than we do investing in future success. Often times, a technical assistance provider can walk along side a serious non-profit agency to affect change. It's about being intentional. It's about making a good match. It's about finding the win, with intentional progress. |
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What We Can Do With You
Capacity Building
Strategic Planning
Project Management
Training & Facilitation
Strategic Resource Development
Individual Donor Development
Technology Planning
Executive Coaching
Governance Training &
Capital Campaign Leadership
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Aimee Laramore has spent nearly 20 years impacting the success of community based organizations, non-profit agencies, community development corporations and mission driven work. With effective tools and resources, she partners with leaders and organizations to transform challenges into opportunities. A trained community organizer, Ms. Laramore has extensive hands-on experience in fund development, leadership cultivation and operational excellence. Ultimately, our vision is to build great organizations that are well managed, accountable for performance, and deliver on their promises. Whether you are starting out, growing, or shifting gears, ALlyd will work with you to build a self-sustaining, effective organization.
An active client base can attest to their experience embracing a simple philosophy - an investment in capacity building helps organizations to do hard work effectively, efficiently and with visible impact. Aimee Laramore serves as the lead consultant, but also works with a team of professionals that can change lives. When all is said and done, intentional progress wins out over a pursuit of perfection every time. |
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What Clients Have Shared “Aimee consulted with CICOA in the development of our current strategic plan. In this capacity she facilitated a series of stakeholder meetings, led a planning retreat of the agency's volunteer and paid staff leadership, and worked with the strategic planning committee to interpret findings, develop the planning documents and identify effective measurements of key outcomes. Aimee has excellent communications skills. She is highly effective in coordinating group discussions and soliciting meaningful input from others. She brings a fresh perspective and focused energy to the process. She is a good steward of agency resources and delivers a quality product. I would recommend her to other organizations that are considering a strategic plan or operational review.”
November 10, 2009 ~ Orion Bell, President CICOA
“Aimee served as the development director for our human service agency and because of her great work with us we do a better job of connecting with donors and supporters. I'd happily recommend her to anyone who wants to get better at securing the resources needed to make the world a better place.”
November 11, 2009 ~ John Ziraldo, Lighthouse of Oakland County
“I found Aimee to be a bright articulate consultant who engaged staff, board and leadership in a process to develop new organizational, strategic & fund development plans. Aimee was superb at engaging staff as well as board members in the process and getting buy-in for the process. She is a straight forward person and upfront about some people not always liking that. It was refreshing for us at EmberWood Center, especially me. Our relationship also included some executive coaching and that has been very helpful to me as my postion as President has been transitioning.”
November 5, 2009 ~ Vince Failla, President Emberwood Center (formerly Community Addiction Services of Indiana)
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