Partnering for Success: How to Effectively Engage Nonprofit Consulting Services

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Wednesday, December 7, 2016, 9 a.m. - Noon

Hosted at Metropolitan Family Services, 1 North Dearborn, 10th Floor, Chicago, IL (Please note downtown workshop location!)

Half-Day Workshop: $90

About this Session:  This interactive session will examine working with nonprofit consultants from the client's perspective.  Participants will walk through the phases of an internal assessment of readiness, RFP development, consultant evaluation and selection, contract negotiation and execution, managing the consulting project, and implementation. Participants will leave the session with a better understanding of how to effectively select and engage consulting services as well as implement consultant recommendations. 

Who Should Participate: Executive directors, board members or anyone seeking to hire a consultant

About the Presenter: Heather Greenwell serves as vice president of consulting at Executive Service Corps of Chicago (ESC) where she works to ensure a high level of quality and client satisfaction throughout all levels of consulting engagements. She fulfills this goal by working collaboratively with ESC consultants, providing consultant and client support, and developing and analyzing evaluation and measurement tools. Prior to joining ESC, Heather worked as the national manager of research and development at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) where she oversaw the development, evaluation, and measurement of JGI’s national youth programs. Committed to cross-cultural cooperation and learning, Heather worked as a teacher on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, was a member of the US Delegation to the Central American Workers Summit in San Salvador, El Salvador, and was a member of the Interfaith Delegation to His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome in Istanbul, Turkey.  Heather holds a bachelor’s from the College of Wooster and an MDiv from the Catholic Theological Union with an emphasis in social justice.