How can the current board help with fundraising, tapping into its existing financial resources or network

Rainbow Street (NGO active in Middle East and North Africa, based in San Francisco, https://www.rainbow-street.org/ (Links to an external site.))grow its organization in terms of impact + number of cases managed, and resources (funding and employees). The dilemma the organization is facing is growing its capabilities for more impact and professionalizing its process, without losing its strong sense of mission, authenticity and identity.

Link to case documents:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xLnb46Asx-FBhAT-0X79OLDlsvHC5OvJ (Links to an external site.)

Answer these questions in 2000 words (I will allow a slightly longer brief but you need to add value for our client):

Q1: Summarize, clarify and discuss the key facts of the case (5%):

1.1 Rainbow’s current structure and past achievements

1.2 Internal reasons for changing:Its goals and priorities for the future

1.3 The power, priorities and challenges for these stakeholders, through a stakeholder table, based on available facts and educated guesses – specify which part is fact and which part is educated guess in the table (key stakeholders: CEO, Case managers, Grantees, Jordanian Government, Lebanese Government, Jordanian Public opinion, Lebanese public opinion)

Q2: Make recommendations on this technical issue: Growing sources of funding (25%)

For each subquestion, (1) discuss opportunities for change , (2) recommend evolutionary change or revolutionary change, and optimal pace of change, justifying why you recommend one rather than the other; (3) assess potential dangers and sources of resistance to change or engagement for two of these four potential sources of funds:

2.1 how can the current board help with fundraising, tapping into its existing financial resources or network? See for example https://boardsource.org/fundamental-topics-of-nonprofit-board-service/fundraising/;(Links to an external site.)look at current board members influence and networks

2.2 In your opinion, are there opportunities to tap into crowdsourcing through a platform similar to what New Story Charity has done (https://newstorycharity.org/about-us/ (Links to an external site.)), and proven successful with a younger and tech-savvy audience; make recommendations for how Rainbow Street could adapt their model of crowdsourcing fundraising

2.3: Explore opportunities to engage or build a pool of donors with Middle East connexions (locals or diaspora), for example, with influential individuals or companies (see for example https://www.philanthropyage.org/finance/csr-in-middle-east-good-business);(Links to an external site.)discuss in particular whether anonymous giving is the way to go based on culture of philanthropy and attitudes to LGBTQ issues and rights)

2.4 Explore opportunities to engage or build a pool of donors among existing Foundations (see for example https://www.fundsforngos.org/foundation-funds-for-ngos/20-foundations-trusts-fund-lgbt-programs/ (Links to an external site.))

Q3: Professionalizing processes (25%)

Answer 3 out of these 4 questions

3.1 Discuss the benefits and potential dangers of building the team from 1 full time member, 2 part-time employees and a team of volunteers, to a team of 10 fulltime employees and double the amount of volunteers by 2025

3.2 Propose actions for improving processes and success metrics/KPI for better case management, especially as the number of cases handled will grow

3. 3 Write a job description and ideal candidate profile (with hard skills, soft skills and values) for future volunteers

3.4 Collaborating for change: discuss potential new partnerships with NGOs or for profits (existing and potential new ones) to grow Rainbow’s presence in a third country, aftern Jordan and Lebanon (chose among one of three offered by CEO nearer the time);

Q4. Communications, Storytelling and Emotional Intelligence (25%)

Answer 1 of these 2 questions

4.1 Assess current message to donors and recommend changes to build sense of urgency externally, and new champions, focusing on the two areas for development chosen and discussed in Q2 alignment and champions externally; In particular, propose a separate paragraph articulating the mission, goals and why they should give for each of the two donor groups you chose to focus on; and propose a story, based on materials made available to you, to tap into the donor’s emotions, build legitimacy and a sense of urgency; this material is aimed at helping current and future fundraising staff better articulate their “value proposition”

4.2 Assess current message to volunteer case workers and recommend changes to recruit new volunteers for Jordan; In particular, propose (1) a paragraph articulating the mission, goals and why they should join for each of the two donor groups you chose to focus on; (2) propose a story, based on materials made available to you, to tap into the volunteer’s emotions, build legitimacy and a sense of urgency; this material is aimed at helping current staff better articulate their “value proposition” and recruit new case managers; (3) what would you change if Rainbow were to enter one of these 3 countries: Egypt, Morocco or Tunisia (pick one and answer for that country)

Q5 Leading change: Support CEO with recommendations on increasing and professionalizing fundraising, growing the number of case handled and entering new countries (20%)

Discuss leadership development in these two areas:

5.1 Discuss hard skills and soft skills needed in the management team to help growth in these three areas; based on needs and complementarity to CEO background; discuss which next 3 C-suite position should be created next by order of priority (for example, but not limited to, Chief Fundraising Officer, Public Relations, Legal adviser, Counseling services…

5.2 How can the CEO can best adjust to leading a new, increased professional team (discuss challenges such as letting go, managing people, building support systems etc). Be as specific as possible

NB Make sure you use the Kotter model and book/class learnings around emotion, national and organizational culture

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