Institutional Advising & Executive Coaching
Lari Pittman, artist, at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Philanthropy & ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY AND EXECUTIVE COACHING for leaders and organizations who want to make an impact.
Taking leaders, boards, and teams through the organizational lifecycle: executive advising > collaborative and consensus-built strategic planning > change management to implement initiatives > campaigns with case statements rooted in data and impact-driven storytelling.
Institutional Advising: Leveraging original research into next era cultural giving trends, MCW Projects advises organizations, leaders, and boards on best practices to recruit the next generation of audiences, advocates, and donors. We help identify and best communicate the most relevant stories to connect with rising generation values, implement new methods of audience and philanthropic engagement to recruit and retain new stakeholders, and cultivate the next era of donors and leaders who strive to make impact. With experience spearheading strategic and campaign plans, creating new development efforts and offices from scratch, developing staffing plans, and designing engagement efforts for new phases of growth, MCW Projects offer services highly tailored to each organization. We carefully listen to each organization’s needs in order to craft strategic action plans specific to its mission and goals.
Executive Coaching: Certified instructor and founder Melissa Cowley Wolf coaches rising executives to be successful leaders in an impact-driven nonprofit environment. As a trained wellness professional, she brings a background in mind-body connection, helping leaders listen, strategize, and execute from a grounded place of strength. Following strategic and campaign planning, she advises leaders and teams to successfully implement the plans and bring about desired changes in the team and organization. Behavioral and organizational change that are sustainable and dependable require consistent feedback and dialogue; this advising reinforces the best practices for change management to best achieve goals and sustainability.
MCW Projects LLC offers the following services to organizations:
Strategic Planning · Feasibility Studies and Market Anaylsis · Campaign Planning · Executive Coaching · Board / Staff Retreat Facilitation · Organizational and Executive Wellness Strategies · Narrative & Visioning Assessment and Development · Organization Assessment & Roadmapping · Impact Reporting · Individual & Institutional Major Gift Pipeline Development · Board Development, Expansion Planning & Recruitment · Next Generation Funder Value Alignment · Outreach strategies · Departmental Staffing, Management, Planning & Recruiting · Integrated Marketing & Brand Strategy · Grant Management and Research, Strategy, and Writing · Policy, Administration, Arts Curriculum Development · and more…