Roebling Museum Feasibility Study for Workers Rowhouse
We have started work with the Roebling Museum in Florence, NJ on a “community-driven adaptive reuse feasibility study for a company town worker's rowhouse.” This work includes two Audience Research components and an Assessment of the Heritage Tourism Potential for the small brick row home at 101 Second Avenue. The Roebling Museum purchased the property last year to better interpret life at the Roebling Company in Roebling, NJ. The New Jersey Historic...
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Turning Supporters into Donors at Pennsylvania Downtown Conference
This June we spoke again at the Pennsylvania Downtown Center conference held in Harrisburg, PA on two of our favorite fundraising topics, “Boosting Net Revenue for Fundraising Events” and “Turning Supporters into Donors.” The latter topic comes from consulting work we undertook during the pandemic for Sheri Stuart at Oregon Main Street. The blurb said it all. The new Oregon Main Street Handbook “Turning Supporters into Donors” will help you...
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Bylaw Reviews for Three Organizations
Throughout my 17 plus years of consulting with nonprofits, we have found that no charitable organization willingly revises their bylaws-- unless it is absolutely necessary! This spring and summer, we worked with three organizations that wanted to update their bylaws to reflect current organizational realities.
The 64.6 Downtown organization in Fort Smith, AR was making a transition toward affiliation as a full time Main Street organization with Main Street Arkansas. Their bylaws needed a...
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A Third Five-Year Strategic Plan for Tacony
Our longstanding client the Tacony Community Development Corporation has entrusted Heritage Consulting Inc. again to develop a third five-year Strategic Plan for this organization in Northeast Philadelphia. Each of the two previous Strategic Plans we provided for them were highly ambitious. Both times, the organization implemented more than 95% of the tasks they set for themselves in these plans.
This time, the organization is more mature and will be wrestling with real estate...
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Fall 2022 Speaking Engagements
We have some upcoming speaking engagements this Fall. On October 19, we will be speaking again to old friends and new at the Illinois Main Street Conference in Bloomington, IL. This time we are speaking about “Better Recruitment Equals Better Boards” and “Boosting Net Revenue at Fundraising Events.” Both of these presentations focus on building a healthy organization by paying attention to basic truths about downtown work: the people and the money are critical components...
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