A 14th Year of Work Begins with the HEB ISD Education Foundation

Long-term assignments are not new to us.  When the HEB ISD Education Foundation first reached out about possibly teaming in late summer of 2011, we had just completed a fifteen-year assignment that supported the board of directors for the North Texas Clean Air Coalition, nine years of work with the Tarrant Independent Schools Consortium, and fourteen years of service to the North Texas Cutting Champions Club.  Yet I couldn’t have imagined at the time that the new partnership that resulted from the interview would become one of those long-term assignments. 

It has been such a pleasure to team with this board of directors that is laser-focused on achieving its mission, which is to raise and award private funds and community resources to support the excellence in education of the HEB ISD.  And they do so with such joy and gratitude for the opportunity.  It’s no wonder a fourteenth year of working together is beginning!   

“I’m so glad I found you!  Project Partners has been a very successful partner for the HEB ISD Education Foundation – we wouldn’t be where we are today without your advice, expertise, ideas and follow through. I appreciate all you and your team have done!”

—Mary Martin Frazior, IOM, CCE - President & CEO, HEB Chamber of Commerce and Foundation Board Member

FEATURING GOOD WORK WITH BOTTOM LINE

We are excited to share recently completed fundraising consulting services for Bottom Line, a nonprofit based in Boston. View this project profile here!

We're Happy to Feature Good Work with Blackland Prairie Raptor Center

We are pleased to feature recent work with the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center. We provided consulting for fundraising readiness. Please check out this Project Profile!

Boston-Based Nonprofit Calls on Project Partners' Local Expertise

Even after thirty years of business in North Texas, we love “firsts”, so when a Boston-based educational nonprofit reached out to us, we were happy to help. Thus, our first client from the state of Massachusetts.

This organization, dedicated to helping students of color from under-resourced communities get into and through college as a path out of poverty, needed our local expertise to gain understanding about the fundraising market in the Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) metropolitan region and their capacity to raise funds for expansion here.  To develop the report they needed to make data-informed decisions, we consulted on their DFW-specific case statement, interviewed stakeholders for further input on the local need, identified potential funders, and recommended revenue targets and revenue streams. 

It was a pleasure to give these educational leaders insights into our wonderful philanthropic landscape.  We will let you know if they decide to start serving North Texas students! 

Blackland Prairie Raptor Center Plans For Fundraising Success

Transitions among the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center’s founder, Executive Director, and board members have caused a need to shore up the Center’s fundraising expertise and capacity for sustainable success with a first focus on grants and corporate sponsorships of educational programs, and a secondary focus on the opportunity to better steward and increase funds from individual donors.  A development committee of board members has been established to help guide and support an improved fundraising strategy and implementation, staffed by the newly named Executive Director. 

With that, the Center has teamed with Project Partners to work through our “Infrastructure for Fundraising Success,” an assessment that will help identify opportunities and establish priorities.  We will also conduct funder research, consider educational programming sponsorship levels, and coach the development committee members on the art and science of fundraising.  

Change for any nonprofit can be hard, but it does provide the opportunity for board members to increase their engagement in the fundraising continuum.  How can you best involve your key volunteers during times of transition?