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Strategic
change for a more just and peaceful world
We're here to help you make a difference in the world by creating
the internal change that will strengthen your governance, improve
your programming, build stronger relationships with your constituencies,
or boost your revenues. We can help you with Board development
and training, organizational development and management consulting,
strategic planning, group facilitation, program development,
organizational communications or fundraising.
Our clients are secular and progressive organizations working
to create change that benefits a broad social spectrum of
their community. They include organizations working on conservation
and the environment, on public education and human services,
on community development, housing and advocacy, and the arts
and human services. They range from grassroots groups working
in a single neighborhood to international organizations working
across dozens of countries.View
our client list
We approach each new project as a partnership to which we
both bring essential information and skills. We help you set
and meet your goals, but the vision and the knowledge of your
community comes from you.
Good partnerships rely on effective conversations. Sometimes,
the conversations we create stay inside your organization,
leading to more effective partnerships among staff, boards
and volunteers. Most often, however, we encourage and help
organizations to extend their dialogue about purpose and goal
to new audiences of funders, supporters and constituents.
As consultants, we combine objectivity and fresh perspectives
with inside knowledge of how nonprofits build programs, generate
revenues and manage change.
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For Gayle, nonprofits are a promise to our communities, a societal commitment, to create a better life full of hope, beauty, promise and equal opportunity for all. Thus, each nonprofit has an obligation to deliver on its commitment. To do that, nonprofits need to be wise stewards of all of their resources - including their programs, their funding, their environment and the human beings they touch.Gayle brings over 20 years of experience to her work with nonprofits - from her personal activism for peace, disarmament, environmental, human and civil rights, to her professional work as a consultant and former director of development and senior nonprofit manager. She is one of fewer than 100 individuals in the US who hold the advanced fundraising credential, ACFRE, issued by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Gayle has a M.S. in management from Antioch New England Graduate School and is a frequent trainer and writer on nonprofit management and fundraising. | | | | |
Jonathan Howard believes that communication is an essential
element of change for people and organizations. Communication
begins by thinking about purpose, audience and message. Communications
succeed when your audiences respond in ways that help your
organization to achieve its mission.
Nonprofits
have much to learn from private sector marketers about effective
and efficient communication and much to teach the private
sector about life's real bottom line.
Jon brings broad experience as a writer and project manager to your challenges. His work includes annual reports, brochures and other printed materials, web content, exhibits and video. Until 1994 he was Communications Coordinator at PLAN International's global headquarters, with responsibility for internal communications to a worldwide, multilingual staff and for providing video, photography and story materials from more than 30 program countries to fundraising affiliates in Europe, Asia and North America. In 1994, he founded Jon Howard Strategic Communications and in 1998, he joined Gayle in creating Cause & Effect, Inc. He has worked on assignments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Japan, Turkey and other countries. | | | | | | Professional organizations to which we belong: |
- Association of Fundraising Professionals
- International Association for Public Participation
- International Association of Facilitators
- New England Direct Marketing Association
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