Nonprofit: Gingold Theatrical Group

GTC offers programs for audiences across the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. GTC’s productions promote the humanitarian ideals of the activist, award-winning Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and other socially conscious writers. It also presents new works and adaptations that engage contemporary audiences in dialogue about human rights and free speech.
Through the Project Shaw reading series, GTC was the world’s first production company to stage all 65 of Shaw’s plays. It is currently producing works by Shaw, Wilde, and Maureen Watkins.

Project: Board Development Donors

GTC offers programs for audiences across the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. GTC’s productions promote the humanitarian ideals of the activist, award-winning Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and other socially conscious writers. It also presents new works and adaptations that engage contemporary audiences in dialogue about human rights and free speech.
Through the Project Shaw reading series, GTC was the world’s first production company to stage all 65 of Shaw’s plays. It is currently producing works by Shaw, Wilde, and Maureen Watkins.

The objective of the session is to:

• Focus on developing strategies to build a more active, strategic, and representative Board of Directors.
• Key areas of focus include:
  • Developing clear expectations and accountability frameworks,
  • Identifying and recruiting new board members aligned with GTC’s mission and
  • Strengthening board participation in fundraising and ambassadorship.

Nonprofit: National Lighthouse Museum

The Museum, founded in 2003, is located on the waterfront in the heart of New York Harbor, adjacent to the Staten Island Ferry. It draws visitors from all over the world to view the collection of lighthouse-related artifacts. This site itself is historical — which the Museum aims to preserve — from the Lenape people (the first Native Americans to settle here) to the Revolutionary War, the Quarantine Hospital era, and the U.S. Lighthouse Service (1864–1939).

Project: Awareness & Board Development

The brainstorming session will focus on developing strategies to raise awareness of the museum’s mission, recruit additional board members, and boost earned and contributed revenue.

The objective of the session is to:

• Implement strategies to increase public awareness about the museum and its mission.
• Develop strategies to attract additional Board members, who could become donors and solicit major donations.

Nonprofit: Wild Project

Wild Project is a production company and venue supporting diverse independent theatre, film, music, visual arts and spoken-word artists of New York City. Wild Project curates resident companies in its 89-seat theatre and devotes specific initiatives toward LGBTQIA+, BIPOC and female projects and the work of local independent artists.

Project: Marketing Strategy

Volunteers will brainstorm ideas to help Wild Project expand its reach with audiences and the community.

The objective of the session is to:

• Grow and diversify audiences
• Increase visibility with its community

Nonprofit: Harvard Business School Club of NY

The mission of the HBS Club of New York is to serve the 14+thousand alumni in the area, support the school, and serve the local community. The Club does all this with a wide ranging set of programs: pro bono consulting to many nonprofits and small businesses, 60+ networking and educational events, support for a large Alumni angel investor group, for alumni forums, and for HBS alumni startups, granting scholarships to HBS to nonprofit executives and fellowships to HBS students, and organizing a 500 person Leadership Dinner annually.

Project: Program Development

Use the HBS Club as a case study in how to analyze a nonprofit’s assets and their possible value to a company. Help CP develop a playbook for use in consulting work with nonprofits.

The objective of the session is to:

• Start to build a group of practitioners as advisors
• Learn from these volunteers and develop the essentials of a playbook for advising nonprofits
• Develop hypotheses for HBSCNY as a case

Nonprofit: Runway Green

Outdated education systems are failing to prepare students for new careers created by fast-evolving economies. Runway Green is a non-profit, public-private partnership that is reimagining education and workforce development for an era defined by climate change and AI. Anchored by a state-of-the-art experiential learning campus at Floyd Bennett Field and an innovative learner-centered curriculum, RunwayGreen and its partners have a unique opportunity to build a new kind of equitable learning ecosystem that will allow NYC students to develop real skills that will prepare them for their careers.

Project: Capital Campaign Strategy

Runway Green is preparing to launch a $50M capital campaign to fund campus construction and its initial years of operations. The project already has traction with some funders, but the organization would like help pressure-testing the current draft of its strategy more holistically before officially launching this year.

The objective of the session is to:

• Review and provide feedback on the current capital campaign strategy
• Suggest additional tactics, strategies, or thinking relevant to their fundraising goals

Nonprofit: Ali Forney Center

Ali Forney Center serves LGBTQ+ youth who flee their homes and end up on the streets of NYC, with 75% participating in survival sex. The Center offers emergency food, housing, and counseling, and a 2+ year program to prepare youths for independent living. It has 14 housing sites in NYC, but a 400-person waiting list for beds. This has prompted a strategic planning process to examine how the organization can best draw on its strengths and resources to help more youths in their hometowns around the US and globally.

Project: Expansion Strategy

Provide high level strategic evaluation of the pros, cons, risks, and opportunities of three growth models:

• Expand a successful technical assistance program to help others build programs
• Open regional Ali Forney fundraising, advocacy, and training hubs
• Open centers in the Ali Forney name and hand them over to others longer term

The objective of the session is to:

• Evaluate three defined expansion pathways
• Help senior leadership develop a decision-making framework for growth (we are not asked to select a growth option or build an implementation plan)

Nonprofit: The Climate Museum

The Climate Museum is the first museum dedicated to climate in the US. Starting in 2030, it will have a year-round home in NYC’s Hudson Yards for climate art, learning, and action.

Project: Strategic Planning

Volunteers will brainstorm ideas to help The Climate Museum crystallize its overall message and value proposition to donors.

The objective of the session is to:

• Crystallize overall message
• Refine value proposition to donors

Nonprofit: El Taller Latino Americano

El Taller is a NYC arts and education institution. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between Latin and North Americans through the languages of art, dance, and music.
El Taller offers its community a varied menu of Spanish language classes, arts programming, and music. They seek not only to educate, but also to gather diverse groups together culturally and linguistically on the common ground of creativity. Its programs are for all ages.

Project: Location Strategy

During covid El Taller had to relinquish their long time headquarters. Their operations are now funded on an ongoing basis, and they wish to get a new base. The brainstorming will help decide whether this is realistic, whether to buy or rent, and how to organize a capital campaign.

The objective of the session is to:

• Determine the financial feasibility of obtaining long-term space
• Deciding on renting or buying
• If buying, deciding the strategy for a capital campaign

Nonprofit: Congregation Habonim

This neighborhood synagogue has been a West Side fixture for over 85 years, offering services to both its members and the community. They have the Nursery School of Habonim, various after-school programs, and a variety of programs for adults. Their larger space, coming on stream in 2027, will support a substantial growth in activity. A  social hall can handle events of 200-350 people. A smaller room seats 100. And there will be 7 classrooms that can be rented. There will also be a fully equipped kitchen.

Project: Strategic Planning

Help develop target markets of likely uses and users for the different spaces. This is especially important for the larger space. Bring a focus on the organizational elements needed to staff the events, as well as provide marketing and management. Investigate ideas for pricing, combining affordability and profitability.

The objective of the project is to:

• Contribute to a profile of target markets.
• Help design the infrastructure needed to run the space rental business.
• Help analyze the economics to achieve a sound financial footing.

Nonprofit: The Tell Institute

Acclaimed, award-winning author, scholar, and lecturer Dara Horn launched The Tell Institute to significantly reframe what students and the broader public know about Jewish civilization, the dynamics of antisemitism for 2500 years, and the ideas that shape free pluralistic societies. The Tell has developed eight lessons based on Horn’s ideas, which it is piloting in select schools. Hundreds of inquiries have been made by those wishing to be partners or “Ambassadors” in teaching these ideas in and beyond educational settings.

Project: Strategy and Organization

The Tell Institute seeks assistance in creating a framework for launching and structuring its Ambassadors Program, which would include educators and leaders in community, business, religious, and cultural sectors nationwide. The aim is to transform grassroots passion into a sustainable national network for change. Experience in franchising is particularly welcome.

The objective of the session is to:

• Short and long-term Ambassador Program objectives
• Ambassador selection criteria
• Critical components of an operating plan