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David
Steven Rappoport Joins Millennia Consulting as Senior Consultant
We are pleased to
announce that David
Steven Rappoport has joined our team as senior
consultant.
David is a
non-profit professional with more than 25 years of leadership and
consulting experience in health care, housing and other mission areas.
His expertise includes systems change consulting and leadership, program
development, facilitation and training, relationship management, funding
and grantwriting, board development and relations, and project and
operations management.
As the Senior Program Officer of Maine's largest health care
foundation, the Maine Health Access Foundation (MeHAF), David designed
the initial grantmaking processes for the Foundation. He subsequently
managed more than 288 grants totaling $21,198,000. His work at MeHAF also
involved significant health care systems change. Earlier in his
professional life, as a principal of Development Solutions Group, David
played a key role in successful applications for more than $30,000,000 in
grants from private and corporate foundations and federal and state
agencies. He worked with clients in thirteen states, and wrote
applications to HUD, HRSA, NIH and other federal agencies.
As an administrator of community-based AIDS clinical trials,
David managed multi-million dollar research contracts, and provided
day-to-day management of the host organization. Previously, he served as
an administrator in a public hospital.
He holds an M.S. in Management from Antioch New England
Graduate School, and an M.A. in writing and literature from Goddard
College.
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Millennia
Celebrates 12 Years of Service
Millennia Consulting,
LLC was founded in February, 1996 by Ken O'Hare, Karen Snyder and Jim
Troxel. Since that time, the company has completed over 300
different assignments serving over 225 government, nonprofit,
philanthropic and educational clients.
From small
nonprofit start-ups to agencies of the federal government, from the
nation's largest foundations to over a quarter of Chicago's public
schools, Millennia consultants have continuously provided
organizational capacity building in order that our clients can be more
effective in serving the general public. We feel extremely
privileged to have assisted in supporting those who care for others,
enabling them to be more effective in their missions.
Founding partner
Jim Troxel reflected upon the company's history: "Looking back
over this past dozen years it seems like it was just yesterday that the
three of us were sitting at a Lincoln Avenue restaurant and after weeks
of talking made a 'to do' list - make business cards, sign sub-lease,
order stationery. And now, with a team of 8 professionals and
about 20 sub-contractors who have helped us over the years, we feel
poised to take advantage of the sea change that is coming upon the
world of public service."
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 Do You Enjoy
Facilitating Group Meetings? Are You Often Called Upon to Facilitate
and Wish You Could Build Your Skills?
Don't
miss Introduction to the
Art & Science of Group Facilitation,
February 27 -28, 2008
"I have been
to many training programs. This is the first one I experienced as
not only informative but life changing."
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Executive Book Club
in Formation
Read,
learn, network and discuss ideas with your peers
Interested in
keeping current on the literature that affects your work? Millennia
will be facilitating a monthly book club for executive directors and
other senior level professionals from the nonprofit, government and
foundation communities. We'll suggest some interesting titles to begin
with and then the group itself will take it from there. Interested?
Call Wendy Siegel at 312-922-9920 or email Siegel@consultmillennia.com.
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Ask
Millie 
Strategic
Planning vs. Business Planning: Understanding the Difference
Erie Neighborhood
House Strategic Planning Meeting
Dear
Millie, One of our board members has suggested that we develop a
business plan instead of doing the "same old strategic
planning." What is the difference between these two
types of planning and how does a nonprofit determine which one
is best?
The use of
business planning is relatively new to the nonprofit community,
especially among small to mid-size and newer organizations. This has
led to some confusion about the difference between strategic planning
and business planning.
Strategic
planning is an interactive process among board members,
senior staff and a facilitator. The process centers on review and/or
development of an organization's mission, vision, core values,
strategic priorities and long-term outcomes. If your agency does
not have a strategic plan, or if it the current plan is outdated, it
may be time to initiate a strategic planning process.
I would be
concerned about doing a business plan for the sake of trying something
new. Business planning centers on the creation of a
detailed marketing and financial scenario that demonstrates
how a company or nonprofit will be financially successful.
Business planning makes a case for the comparative advantage of a
company (or nonprofit) and its proposed products or services. It
is wise to develop a business plan if you intend to launch a new
initiative that will depend on revenue generation to some degree.
Strategic
planning alone will not achieve the business goal of financial
sustainability if earned-income initiatives are involved. At the same
time, business planning can only benefit a nonprofit that has already
developed a clear mission, vision and strategic priorities. Utimately,
these plans serve different purposes and result in different work
products. Perhaps you can engage your board in a discussion of the
differences between these plans.
Sincerely,
Millie
Send
your questions to Millie at Millie@ConsultMillennia.com.
Photo
credit: Wendy Siegel
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