Our Projects
Ekstrom Alley Clontz & Associates has provided clients with services including:
• Strategic planning and visioning
• Organizational assessments
• On-call technical assistance for community foundations
• Thought partner and solutions resource for community foundation CEOs
• Staff and board training
• Marketing and asset development assessment and planning
• Focus groups, surveys, and interviews
• Grantmaking program and community leadership review and planning
• Design and facilitation of asset development workshops
• Conduct studies and compile resources
• Meeting and retreat design and facilitation
• New market and positioning strategies
• Planned giving program development
• Project management
• Strategic planning and visioning
• Organizational assessments
• On-call technical assistance for community foundations
• Thought partner and solutions resource for community foundation CEOs
• Staff and board training
• Marketing and asset development assessment and planning
• Focus groups, surveys, and interviews
• Grantmaking program and community leadership review and planning
• Design and facilitation of asset development workshops
• Conduct studies and compile resources
• Meeting and retreat design and facilitation
• New market and positioning strategies
• Planned giving program development
• Project management
Clients have asked us to help them:
Craft a game plan for an enhanced development program and determine the attributes, skills,
and experience needed in professional staff to lead the new effort
Develop resources for professional advisors to integrate charitable giving into their practices
and engage their clients in philanthropy
Be guided by a strategic plan that is grounded in a shared organizational vision and informed
by constituent views, marketplace information, and environmental trends
Connect grantmaking and community leadership goals with donor relations and development objectives
Develop productive and engaged board and staff members by facilitating dialogue about vision and strategy
Re-invent themselves as their community’s center for philanthropy
Create a marketing platform to support community foundations statewide
Advance the thinking about the importance of professional development to the community foundation field
Assess their community’s potential for providing the resources required to grow and sustain a community foundation