This page illustrates the breadth of Non-Profit Ventures' experience - Process and Project Management, Organizational/Financial Workout, Acquisition & Development of Real Estate, Intervention, Systemic Crises, Complex Projects . In some cases, the identity of the organization is omitted to preserve its privacy.


Nonprofit Leadership in Sustainable Practices
Rolling Hills Preparatory School, a 26-year old, grades 6-12 independent school is currently planning one of the first ground-up, U.S. Green Building Council, LEED certified, "sustainable" independent school campuses in California. Solar, environmental, and conservation considerations are being designed into every facet of the campus. LEED certified Bryant, Palmer, Soto Architects created the master plan for the 23 acre campus. Non-Profit Ventures, certified under the LEED program, has served as project consultant to the school for site acquisition, entitlements, financing, and LEED environmental concepts.


Process and Project Management
Non-Profit Ventures served as the project and construction manager which included site acquisition, a special gifts campaign, bond financing, and construction management. A K-6 independent school on two-thirds acre, designed by Carde-Ten Architects, the three story school for 290 children has subterranean parking and play spaces on two levels.






Organizational/Financial Workout
A split hierarchy organization that included an operating foundation/endowment and a service agency was losing money on both operations. Lack of understanding of each other's operational demands as well as inadequate governance and management of the two entities had created systemic problems that could only be resolved by a major restructuring. A focus on governance, program, and fund raising returned the agency to profitability, dramatically lowering the drain on endowment.


Facilities Crisis
A well-established non-profit was faced with a facilities crisis that required them to lease a building, obtain entitlements for a special purpose facility, conduct major interior build out, move and be operational within six months. Non-Profit Ventures was engaged to manage the entire process, which was completed in 191 days. NPV subsequently managed the entitlement of a second phase project.


Acquisition & Development of Real Estate
A 60-year old facility composed of a dozen buildings on 12 acres of land became the focal point for a master plan and phased build out of a much larger complex. Non-Profit Ventures led the organizational preparation phase of the project. An institutional assessment process built a new board, refocused the marketing effort, and prepared the entity for a first-ever capital campaign. After construction, NPV returned twice to lead long-term strategic initiatives for Board and Management.



Intervention
A large California social services agency had been struggling for two years with high-level management problems that were affecting program, funding, and employee morale. Several program managers had resigned, the board of directors had inaccurate information regarding the source of the problems, and the board was evenly split on a course of action. Non-Profit Ventures was hired to return the agency to normalcy by determining the facts, collecting all of the points of view, assessing the overall severity of the problem and recommending a series of steps to resolve the problems.

Systemic Crises
A long-standing congregational schism over policy and shrinking revenues had all but erased a substantial endowment. The large, well-respected school operated by the institution encountered its own crisis followed by diminishing enrollment and fund raising, and staff defections. Non-Profit Ventures was contracted to analyze this complex and fractured puzzle, recommend the necessary changes, and manage the resurgence.


Complex Projects
In a transfer of federal property that required negotiations, mediation, and permissions from five government departments, NPV hired technical experts and managed the acquisition, geotechnical, environmental, mapping, entitlement, and construction processes. The governmental hurdles, due diligence, deed restrictions, and development plan all were satisfactorily resolved.