Create + Collaborate Strategizes for Sustainability and Growth

Founded in 2020, Create + Collaborate (C + Co) has seen a 57% growth in students served through their mentoring, leadership training, and life skills programming, and an overall financial growth of 91%.  To support this tremendous growth, the Board of Directors created goals as part of its preliminary strategy work for 2023 and is now teaming with Project Partners to bring that process to a strategic plan in support of ongoing development and sustainability. 

When the Founder and Executive Director of C + Co reached out to us as she was pondering her North Texas Community Foundation Toolbox Grant application, we immediately knew that we wanted the chance to work with her.  She is a young, smart, innovative leader, dedicated to making a difference in the lives of youth and their families in Southeast Fort Worth. 

We look forward to this good work together in one of our specialty cause areas – education and workforce development. 

After Facility Expansion, The WARM Place Plans For the Future

Founded in 1989, The WARM Place provides a safe, compassionate space for children and their families grieving the death of a loved one. On the heels of a successful capital campaign and facility expansion, the organization is primed for a fresh look at the future.  

When The WARM Place board chair reached out to us about possibly teaming to facilitate this strategic planning process, upon a recommendation by a mutual friend and Project Partners client, we jumped at the chance to partner with this outstanding nonprofit that has served many we know who have experienced the death of a loved one. 

We will serve as the consultant and facilitator of the planning process and the board workshop.  In addition, we will ensure delivery of the final plan document that includes organizational goals around five focus areas to include Board and Committees, Administration, Financial Stability/Fundraising, Community Impact, and Communications.

Now in our 29th year of business, our work has always come from referrals and repeat business.  Thank you for your continued support! 

Methodist Justice Ministry Gains Mentorship For New Development Director

Methodist Justice Ministry was founded in 2006 to provide legal services and ongoing support, at no charge, to victims of traumatic domestic violence and neglect. The current Development Director is new to her role, but not to the organization or mission. To provide her with the tools she needs, the savvy board of directors committed to her professional development through a coaching relationship with Project Partners.  They understand that her success will equate to the mission’s success.  We will be providing mentorship related to fundraising, donor stewardship, and board engagement that will add capacity now and create a roadmap for the future, building on strengths that already exist within the organization and her personal skill set.

We are excited for the opportunity to work with a nonprofit professional, already familiar with the mission and work of the organization, while also eager to hone her skills as a fundraiser.

Good things come to those who train!  

AB Christian Learning Center to Develop a Roadmap For Continued Success

AB Christian Learning Center (ABCLC) is a faith-based, nonprofit organization with a mission to strengthen and improve the academic performance of all youth by taking a holistic approach to addressing their needs. ABCLC has operated in Fort Worth since 2006 with visionary, hands-on leadership from its Founder and Executive Director. 

Thanks to a Toolbox Grant from the North Texas Community Foundation, Project Partners will provide consulting and strategic planning facilitation to help the Executive Director and her board.  Together, we will identify long-term strategic goals and short-term objectives for operations and programming, using stakeholder input and needs data. The results of this good work together will be a five-year strategic plan to help assure ongoing success for ABCLC’s important mission.

We have long admired the founding Executive Director’s servant-leadership across our community, including collaborative initiatives such as Strategic Pathways to Student Success, which we helped direct for the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.  We are so glad to be teaming with her directly for the benefit of AB Christian Learning Center and the families they serve!

Open Arms Health Clinic Looks to the Future

Founded in 2011, Open Arms Health Clinic (OAHC), has served more than 4,000 people to date, most of whom are considered the working poor, as they are employed (thus not eligible for most assistance programs) but in great need of help. That service to the community has been made possible through the generosity of more than 60 volunteers to date and many incredible community partners.

Thanks to a ToolBox Grant from the North Texas Community Foundation, we have been invited to work with the founding Executive Director and Board (all volunteers!) to develop a strategic plan for the organization that will help to sustain and grow their mission, which is so needed in the community.

We love helping nonprofit leaders put the structures in place to help them thrive, so that they can focus on amazing service delivery and programs!