Clients

Amador Land Trust, Inc.

• Facilitated strategic planning process for the organizations first strategic plan.

Amador – Tuolumne Community Action Agency   www.atcaa.org

• Board strategic planning retreat facilitation
• AmeriCorp mentoring program evaluation
• Head Start community assessment and strategic planning technical assistance
• Staff management training
• Facilities financing plan technical assistance
• Energy program assessment and organizational development options study.
• Santa Clara County community needs assessment, for California Community Services and Development use in seeking a new organization to be the Community Action Agency.
• Head Start program expansion technical assistance

California Hydropower Reform Coalition (CHRC)  www.calhrc.org 

• Facilitation of Steering Committee's strategic plan review and revision
• Steering Committee training session on implementation planning and monitoring
• Facilitation of Steering Committee strategic retreat.

California – Nevada Community Action Association (Cal-Neva) www.cal-neva.org

• Organizational assessment
• Strategic planning facilitation
• Executive management technical assistance
• Energy demand side management planning and business plan development assistance
• Administration of initial website and web hosting
• Members training forum for federal "Brownfields" community development projects
• Members annual conference training session on technology for the enterprise organization.
• Design, development and test a Strength Based Needs Assessment (SBNA) for Training and Technical Assistance (TA) as part of a CA Community Services and Development T&TA program.
• National OCS special project for field testing SBNA T&TA model as a comprehensive diagnostic to identify agency specific T&TA

Central San Joaquin Valley Community Action Consortium

• Project Evaluation for the California Endowment funded Welfare Reform Consortium of Central San Joaquin Valley Community Action Agencies

Community Action Agency of Butte County
www.buttecaa.com

• Head Start program organizational assessment and recommended strategic improvements.

Community Action Partnership Association of Idaho
 www.idahocommunityaction.org

• CSBG performance evaluation for the Western Idaho Community Action Partnership (WICAP) for the State of Idaho.

Community Services & Development Corporation   www.csareno.org

• Organizational assessment
• Program implementation planning & resource development technical assistance
• National technology conference planning and logistics technical assistance
• Head Start programs regional comparison of staffing profiles and dynamics
• Staff management and economic development training
• Grant proposal development and writing technical assistance
• Washoe County Micro-Enterprise study and options for enhancing low-income opportunities, a partnership with Schwab bank.
• Design of a community collaborative basic job training program for low-income at-risk youth.
• Special projects development technical assistance.

Community Services & Employment Training (C-SET)   www.cset.org 

• Rural Empowerment Zone project development planning team facilitation
• Facilitation of Tulare County Mentors Matter community collaboration planning conference

• Facilitated a Strength based Needs Assessment (SBNA) for identifying agency capacity building Training and Technical Assistance needs.
• Facilitation of Strategic Plan development
• Staff and Board training.

Foothill Conservancy
 www.foothillconservancy.org  

• Facilitated community planning and organizational development technical assistance for Blue Mountain Community Renewal Council (BMCRC); formerly the Mokelumne Alliance for Community Renewal.
• Training in strategic and implementation planning for BMCRC and Foothill Conservancy
• Facilitated Board of Directors strategic planning
• Facilitated Board strategic retreat for transition from an all volunteer organization to an one with staff.

• Facilitated an agency wide Strength Based Needs Assessment (SBNA) to identify and plan for organization specific capacity building Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA).

• Board and staff training in the history and status of the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) and in an organization Board and staff roles and responsibilities.

Institute for Ecological Health (IEH) www.thecity.sfsu.edu/users/IEH

• FaciBoard Strategic Planning Retreat and Strategic Plan Development Assistance
• Organizational Development Technical Assistance

Inyo County www.sdsc.edu/Inyo/Inyohpg.htm

• Inyo County Job Creation Plan for the Workforce Investment Act
• Inyo County Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for compliance with U.S. Department of Commerce

Inyo-Mono Advocates for Community Action (IMACA)
www.imaca.net

• Central Owens Valley Community Action Plan and community vision facilitation and document preparation for a USDA - U.S.F.S funded Community Revitalization Project
• Facilitated a diagnostic process of a Strength Based Needs Assessment (SBNA) for organization specific capacity building T&TA.
• Facilitated agency Strategic Plan Development.
• Conducted an MIS and Technology assessment and helped develop an agency improvement plan.
• Provided technical assistance to facilitate agency involvement in the Inyo Mono Integrated Regional Water Management Group (IRWMG) and participation in groups initial organization.
• Technical assistance with designing and developing the agency job development and training program in Natural Resources.

Community Action Partnership of Kern (formerly Kern County EOC)
 www.capk.org

• Board and Staff Training Retreat on Strategic Planning and Results Oriented Management and Accountability (ROMA)
• Board and Staff Strategic Planning Review Technical Assistance

Kern River Valley Revitalization, Inc. (KRVR)

• Technical Assistance Plan Development for USDA- U.S. Forest Service Community Revitalization Project

Kings Community Action Organization, Inc. www.kcao.org 

• Facilitate Board and Staff Strategic Planning Process

• Facilitating agency wide Strength Based Needs Assessment (SBNA) to identify and plan for organization specific capacity building Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA).

Madera Community Action Agency, Inc.

• Facilitate Board and Staff Strategic Planning Process and Prepare Strategic Plan Document
• Domestic Violence Program Evaluation Design Technical Assistance

Merced County Community Action Agency Inc. www.mercedcaa.org  

• Organizational development consulting for welfare to work micro-enterprise project
• Facilitate organizational development of the micro-entrepreneurs support association (a cooperative)
• Planning, resource and grant proposal development technical assistance
• Head Start child care facility purchase financing technical assistance
• Business plan analysis and planning for revolving loan fund program
• Facilitate Board of Directors strategic planning process and prepare strategic plan document
• Facilitate agency department managers technology and organizational assessment and planning process
• Facilitate development of, and maintain, the agency's initial website

Merced County Private Industry Council (PITD) 

• Grant proposal planning and writing technical assistance for WIA job creation project

• One-Stop Job Training Center grant proposal development technical assistance for workforce investment act

Mountain Women's Resource Center, Inc. (MWRC)
www.mountainwomen.org 

• Website development technical assistance and initial website administration
• Facilitated Business Ventures Development Work Group Study Session

Napa County Economic Opportunity Council (EOC), Inc.

• Facilitate Board of Directors agency strategic planning retreat
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• Organizational assessment of agency incorporation issues in acquiring the Head Start program from an adjacent County.

Nevada Community Action Association (NV CAA) www.nevadacaa.org 

• Organizational development planning and start-Up grant development technical assistance
• Members training program design and development technical assistance
• Statewide members technology plan and initial website design technical assistance
• Members grant proposal development technical assistance

Oregon Microenterprise Network 
(OMEN)
www.oregon-microbiz.org 

• Presentation on "Developing Cooperative Marketing Programs" at Fall 2001 Conference with the MESA coop as the case study model

Planada Community Development Corporation 

• Organizational development and strategic planning technical assistance
• Community and economic development planning training and technical assistance
• Assistance with (3) business feasibility studies
• Executive management technical assistance
• Board and community training
• Grants development and writing training and technical assistance
• Facilitate development of agency initial website
• Micro-enterprise and small business community asset mapping project technical assistance

Richard Heath & Associates www.rhainc.com

• Technical assistance with developing PG&E Energy Partners conservation partner in Humboldt County California  

• Conducted an agency wide Strength Based Needs Assessment (SBNA) to identify and plan for organization specific capacity building Training and Technical Assistance (T&TA).

• Technical assistance to assess and plan the merger of the agency's Environmental Services and Facilities Services Departments.

• Facilitation of the Sutter Amador Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Evaluation Committee review of the impacts of Medicare CAH Designation and viable alternatives for Sutter Amador to consider.

Sierra Nevada Alliance www.sierranevadaalliance.org

• Watershed restoration & community involvement principals development negotiations with Rural California Resource Counties (RCRC) 
• Foundation grant writing technical assistance

Sierra Nonprofit Support Center, Inc,
www.sierranonprofit.org

• Facilitated the organizations strategic business plan process and strategic plan writing
• Develop and administer the Support Center's initial website
• Technical assistance in planning the Center's process for developing a Technology Plan

Tuolumne County
www.co.tuolumne.ca.us

• Technical assistance to Departments for grant proposal development and grant writing
• Technical assistance to the Economic Development Corporation to develop a business plan and proposal for a Business Training Institute.

Tuolumne River Trust, Inc. (TRT)
www.tuolumne.org

• Clavey River Ecosystem Project (CREP) Clavey river watershed analysis project technical assistance for community education and outreach for public involvment. www.claveyriver.net
• Production of the International Environmental Film Festival award winning short film "Clavey Reflections" for the Tuolumne River Trust and the Sonora Area Foundation. (To see the video click on below)
   http://www.externalmind.com/video/clavey.html

West Virginia Community Action Directors' Association (WVCADA)  e-mail:  wvcada@city.net 

• Annual training conference session on watershed issues and opportunities
• Organizational development and planning technical assistance for a WV watershed community involvement initiative design and development
• Annual conference training session in fundraising and community education with music events.

Williams & Associates

• Organizational documents analysis for a client organizational assessment