Strategic Management Plan: We were hired to facilitate an 8-month planning process with the 10-member internal team. The organization needed a strategy to execute a major operational expansion to the South / West sides of Chicago.
Operational Design & Management: Over 30 months, we wrote two State grants awarding $1M to design & operate a turn-key culinary workforce development program in the Bronzeville community in Chicago.
Economic Development Solution: We facilitated this 24-month strategic management plan convening area non-profits, small businesses, funding institutions to design the Community Investment Vehicle.
Operational Design & Implementation: We were hired to augment the case management team to design & execute their competitive Request for Proposals process allocating over $20M to local nonprofits.
Critical Operations Solution: Feeling the impacts of the COVID19 pandemic and needing an operational overhaul, we reengineered the operation to maximize reductions in staff and leverage consultants to maintaining business operations.