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