Nonprofit
Income DiversificationSkills
and Services• Experts in the theories, concepts, and practices evolving from nonprofit income
diversification, and helping organizations
to plan for and implement these practices • A keen business understanding of identifying opportunities and a passion for
facilitating social change; Urban Strategies brings these two interests together in the marketplace
• Business accounting and finance expertise to project accurate start up and operational costs of a social enterprise
• Collect and compile best practices that are used to inform new strategies, benchmark
the organization, and determine markets
• Fund development experience in major donor work,
grant‐writing, partnerships, and cause‐related marketing •
Conduct primary research, including survey design, implementation, and analysis, focus group design,
facilitation, and analysis, and one‐on‐one interviews with a wide variety of populations
• Experienced in business planning and plan writing
• Provide implementation assistance and evaluation to keep the client on track in achieving the goals of
their social enterpriseRecognizing that for most of our non‐profit clients, excessive reliance on any one funding source is risky,
Urban Strategies is always looking for ways that our clients can diversify funding through fee‐for‐service or
other revenue generating approaches. Urban Strategies has worked with numerous clients to devise strategies
for income generation by applying business principles.
Karen Gotzler , Urban Strategies COO, served on theCore Team for The Denali Initiative, a social enterprise development
project of Manchester Craftsman’s Guild, a 3‐year national fellowship program for executive directors funded by
Kauffman and Kellogg Foundations in the mid‐1990’s. She continues to teach at UWM School for Continuing
Education and consult around the country on
social enterprise and nonprofit income diversification.
CASE STUDIES
UWM Center on Age & Community ‐ TimeSlips
Urban Strategies developed a business plan to expand the TimeSlips project nationwide to increase visibility and sales for services and products related to this “evidence‐based” group storytelling process to encourage those with memory loss to be imaginative and creative and reduce anxiety.
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Badger Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
While facilitating a strategic planning session for Badger Association, a membership organization that provides services to the visually impaired, Urban Strategies conducted research regarding fee‐for‐service and business opportunities that Badger Association could explore. Urban Strategies made recommendations on income generation for Badger Association to implement both short and long term.
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9to5: National Association of Working Women
For 9to5, an organization that serves low‐income working women by working for greater equality in the workplace and against discrimination, Urban Strategies developed a business plan focused on the expansion and marketing of speaking and training engagements that would allow 9to5 to be less depend‐ent upon grants.
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