Services & Costs
Finding money to support organizational change through training and other means has always been a challenge. My standard practices are:
1)No upfront fees. You pay after the service is delivered.
2)Free initial consultation.
3)All service requests receive a written proposal and budget identifying what is expected, what will be delivered and total costs. 
Consulting costs increase greatly when the consultant travels to a client site to deliver services. You can work with the consultant in the traditional way with all of our meetings and training 
face-to-face, or, a portion of the meetings and training can be done online using the tools available over the internet. Online work costs substantially less than work done onsite.
face-to-face, or, a portion of the meetings and training can be done online using the tools available over the internet. Online work costs substantially less than work done onsite.All of these services can be handled partially or fully through distance training and consultation. Contact CommunityProfits to learn more.
The Effective Board Formula
If you are frustrated by the steep costs of hiring a trainer to work with your board and staff, the Effective Board ebook is aimed at reducing those costs and providing you with ready access to tools and strategies for improving your board.
Excerpt from The Effective Board Formula:
Who is this book for?
This ebook is for anyone who serves on a nonprofit board or is thinking about joining one. It is for all the nonprofit staffs that work with board members and the Executive Directors who are required to work closely with their boards. This ebook is also for individual philanthropists, government, corporate and foundation funding agencies that work with nonprofit boards. They look to these boards to provide the first and last measure of accountability for their organizations.
What is this book about?
This ebook is about how to organize your board so it helps you achieve your mission. In describing this process, I’ll discuss the many ways boards can go wrong in doing their work and why it happens. If your board has problems, I’ll describe the hard decisions you must make in order to change your board for the better. I’ll also show you what it takes to maintain an effective board. The kind of board that helps the organization achieve its mission. The ultimate goal of this ebook is to have boards, staff and other volunteers working together as a team to pursue a mission that improves society.
Today, boards don’t work very well.
What is the role of the board? What is the role of the staff? Who is in charge? Does the Executive Director serve at the pleasure of the board? What are board responsibilities? Do we even need a board? These and other fundamental questions have been the basis of many workshops and consulting services I have delivered over the years. What I often find when I meet with board and staff is widespread confusion and disagreement over these and other related questions. Because power and authority are centralized in the board and the key staff person (i.e. Executive Director), any disagreement or confusion over these key questions can destabilize an organization.
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