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“This consultancy has helped us identify our strengths and weaknesses and
necessary action steps to improve the organization… [now] we will increase our
capacity to serve our constituents”
– Tipawan Reed, President,
OAI Inc.
“I am so busy that this felt like an overwhelming task. ESC allowed me the
time to talk through issues which helped me identify our needs”
– Kathleen Casey, Executive Director,
Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer
Foundation
“Work with ESC propelled us forward in acquisition of a larger facility for
the school… [which will] enable us to offer more services to... the school
community”
– Harriet Potoka, Principal,
Daystar School
“Our campaign raised approximately $338,000 more than the 2004 campaign
[after an ESC Fund Development project]”
– John Charter, Executive Director,
State and University Employees Combined
Appeal
“Our staff, through the strategic planning process, has benefited from
increased confidence in understanding and analyzing local issues and in charting
a course to address them… it has helped us clarify our vision and find practical
and exciting ways to deliver our unique services to the community.” –Sandra
Norlin, Library Director, Des Plaines Public Library (www.dppl.org)
"ESC never lost track of Mercy
Women’s Board’s unique identity. We felt all interventions were adapted to our
needs and goals. The ESC team was helpful, comprehensive, and always
encouraging. We felt supported as well as challenged."
-- Deane Graham,
Women’s Board of Mercy Hospital
"Thank you again for entering into this partnership with us to provide Mock
Interviews for potential Renaissance 2010 applicants...We appreciated the
immediate input we received from your teams during the afternoons they spent
with us. Each one of your ESC members was ready for those interviews and poured
their years of experience into the advice they gave our teams."
--Jeanne L. Nowaczewski, Director
The Chicago Public Schools Office of
Small Schools
"For the first time in the history
of the Township we have a direction that we can use to help guide the elected
officials in making decisions that effect all residents. I would suggest that
any form of government use your services."
-- Charles Fitzgerald,
Shields Township Supervisor
"Your leadership and support in
helping us hone our mission statement, and focus and narrow our program
commitments, descriptions, and outcomes, compelled us to think and act anew...
You held up new standards for us to move toward, and to embrace. As a team, and
as individuals, you were great to work with, and we will long remember and
deeply respect your work with us."
--The Rev.
David L. Ostendorf, Executive Director, Center
for New Community
"The Rotary Club of Chicago has
used ESC to facilitate several of our board retreats. We have always been very
satisfied with the process and consultants involved."
-- Evy Alsaker, President
The Rotary Club of Chicago
“We were considering closing the store before the ESC team
showed us what we could do. Sales have increased 20 percent and continue to
rise.”
--Senior Services Associates, Inc.
"Really enjoyed working with ESC. The expertise was unparalleled."
-- Carmen Curet, Associate Director
Youth Service Project, Inc.
"Prior to this [fund development] project we were miles away from developing an
endowment program. It will bring needed resources to the agency in the future
and give us financial stability."
-- Nancy Johnstone, Executive Director
Youth Guidance
“ESC
is sensitive to our own needs and ways of working. They adjusted their plans to
meet our needs and also in ways that we could understand and therefore
implement.”
--Pros Arts Studio
“We would never
have completed the plan were it not for your skillful direction.”
--The Pastoral
Council of St. Francis Xavier Church
"The consultants we worked with were extremely professional and sensitive to our
needs. They immediately understood our issues and challenges and helped us to
articulate what our needs were an dhow we could work together to make changes…I
would love to work with them in the future."
--Sol Flore, Executive Director, La Casa Norte.
"ESC members used a good process and great interactions with everyone concerned
to achieve an excellent strategic plan."
--Margo Cooper, Director,
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"My ESC coach helped bring me back to why I was here in
the first place – to help people.”
--Denise Lam, Executive director,
Chinese Mutual Aid Association.
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"This was an excellent, stimulating and safe
environment to learn, share, support and connect. This experience enriches
all participants and their organizations."
"The Roundtable provided a safe and supportive
environment to discuss issues and challenges that I face as an executive
director."
"Many thanks to ESC for establishing such an important resource for
leaders of area non-profit organizations. Having this unique opportunity
to learn from ESC consultants and to share information and support will
surely enhance our capacity to serve our communities."
"This session of the non-profit roundtable was quite valuable to me.
The panoply of resources that you brought -- people and papers -- met
many needs I had for my professional development as an executive. Your
facilitation and leadership of the sessions enabled each of us,
encouraged our participation, and set the tone for valuable
member-to-member exchanges. Finally, the setting made it possible for us
to develop a sense of belonging to a free-speaking, supportive, and
meaningful cohort of peers that can carry on its contacts beyond the
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Here’s a sampling of the many projects
our consultants have carried out:
Asian
Human Services
CARE
USA
Ounce
Of Prevention
Pediatric AIDS Chicago
The Renaissance Collaborative
Roberto Clemente Community Academy
St. Patrick High School
Strategic Human Services
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"Dramatic change in the Board: The Board has been transformed.... The Strategic
Plan has energized the board, governance committee and other committees. The
board's camaraderie and involvement is reinvigorating and reshaping the
organization and making a real difference."
--YWCA of Aurora
"The consultancy brought a sense of renewal and hope – and specific remedies for
important problems. Continuing to develop and implement those remedies will
allow for enhanced service delivery and more stable financial footing."
--Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center, Ann Raney
Executive Director.
"The biggest service is that we have set some clear priorities for growth and
improvement."
--Mr. Donald Baker, ED, Youth Organizations Umbrella, Inc.
"We now have a visible concrete plan to help us continue to strive for
improvement in the delivery of our services to the taxpayers."
--Mari Herrell, ED Memorial Park District. |
