Elevate Your Organization to the Center of Your Community's Economic Future
Informed by 45 years of fundraising and $1.8 billion in revenue for chamber and EDO clients, we've identified one factor that stands between token financial support and capacity funding for transformative economic growth: relevance.
Without exception, relevance determines revenue. NCDS' Roadmap to Relevance and Revenue is your trusted, proven path to achieve it.
NCDS' one-of-a-kind Roadmap elevates your Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Organization (EDO), or similar organization to the indispensable, acknowledged driver behind your community's prosperity.
Over eight weeks of personal, hands-on guidance from NCDS President Tom DiFiore, the Roadmap's user-friendly and affordable process crystallizes a custom course of action (or Roadmap) designed to position your organization as the "go-to place" for community growth and improvement.
Regardless of size or budget, the Roadmap offers organizations access to large-budget expertise and far more value than expensive, time-consuming, and often disappointing strategic planning and capital campaigns.
Affordable Process
Designed for all communities, the Roadmap is a cost-effective solution that eliminates the need for expensive strategic planning consultants.
Accelerated Service
Our streamlined process reflects decades of experience, ensuring you achieve the most direct route to relevance and increased revenue.
Custom Plan
We provide custom, actionable strategies tailored to your unique dynamics and needs, boosting relevance and the strength of your asking rights.
95% of raising transformative financial support has nothing to do with asking for money. While underdeveloped organizations remain stuck in transactional fundraising models, relevant organizations thrive with stronger asking rights. In sharp contrast to other approaches, the roadmap delivers:
The "mechanics" of asking for money have limited impact without organizational relevance. The Roadmap guides your organization to a level of status and alignment that supports stronger asking rights. Your stakeholders will see the difference.
We don’t replicate recipes from other communities or boilerplate plans. After consulting hundreds of organizations and communities, we know the many dynamics that must be navigated to create meaningful impact. Your dynamics don’t fit into a mold, neither does our approach.
We avoid the pitfalls of "groupthink" typically generated at board retreats, facilitated focus groups, or even surveys. Instead, we conduct confidential, one-on-one meetings with the right stakeholders to truly understand their opinions, expectations, and key factors for financial commitment.
This is not a generic, comprehensive strategic plan filled with irrelevant data and impractical recommendations. We provide straightforward, actionable strategies, along with key performance indicators, all customized to your organization and community. Plus, we follow up with you every quarter to coach your progress.
Evaluate your revenue model, volunteer engagement, programming, and community perception while elevating and supporting your leadership.
Pinpoint immediate operational improvements and long-term opportunities relative to community priorities so you can lead forward-thinking plans and visions.
Develop actionable strategies and tactics specific to your unique organizational and community culture and capacity.
Your organization can become the cornerstone of your community's economic future. Every Roadmap follows a proven process, but also produces a wholly custom and expertly crafted course of action unique to your organizational, social, economic, and governmental ecosystem.
Contact us today for a free consultation to learn more about how this user-friendly, accelerated process can elevate your organization's impact and fundraising potential.