Services

As a professional with deep experience as a grant maker, grant seeker, and program developer, Ellen can help a wide variety of nonprofits improve their impact and efficiency.

For Foundations and Funders, Ellen can:

--serve as a fractional/PT Executive Director/Administrator/program officer/evaluation point person

--provide background research on potential giving areas/potential grantees

--design giving programs with impact that meet the giver's goals

--serve as their New York representative, including attending meetings and conducting site visits

--create and oversee grantee reporting programs

--improve the quality of a funder's grantmaking by designing, and overseeing, a foundation's internal evaluation efforts

For Nonprofit Organizations, Ellen can:

--provide strategic counsel for their institutional fundraising efforts, including identifying prospects, reviewing/drafting materials/grant applications with an eye towards what funders want; and coaching staff when preparing for meetings with funders

--design quantifiable outcome measures that will simultaneously enable the organization to focus on impact and enhance their potential to raise funds

--conduct qualitative evaluations of their programs and internal functions