Momentum Associates offers a wide array of facilitation and training services for nonprofit, business and governmental entities.
Facilitation
Local, statewide and national organizations will benefit from our facilitation services, ranging from small group meetings to broad organizational planning:
Brainstorming, visioning and design sessions
Strategic and annual planning
Nonprofit board & organizational assessments
Board/staff retreats
Problem-solving meetings
Action planning
Team building
Although the process will vary by organization based on your timing and needs, the following is our traditional process for facilitating sessions:
Meet with client to determine goals for session that move the organization forward.
Conduct interviews and/or survey participants to confirm objectives.
Design customized agenda that utilizes discussion and exercises to achieve goals.
Facilitate interactive session with participants.
Summarize next steps for clients based on input from participants.
As facilitators we use a wide range of skills and tools to plan, manage and guide your group’s event.
Trainings
The following training sessions are all available to be tailored to the needs of your audience. All include activities and discussion to keep participants engaged. Depending on the amount of content and topics to be covered, the following trainings can be offered in 90 minute, half day and full day formats.
> Fundraising Trainings:
Finding grant opportunities
Board members & fundraising
Grant writing
Building & maintaining relationships with foundations
> Advocacy & Lobbying Trainings:
Basic introduction to advocacy tactics
Coalition building
Communicating effectively with policymakers
Crafting legislative agendas
IRS rules for nonprofit lobbying
Foundations engaging and supporting advocacy (roles & rules)
Board members roles as advocates
> Nonpartisan Nonprofit Voter Engagement Trainings:
Crafting a plan and timeline
Effective tactics for voter registration, voter education & voter mobilization
Staying nonpartisan: do’s and don'ts for voter engagement
Roles and rules for foundations
> Board Governance Trainings:
Best practices
Board member responsibilities
Effective board committees
Boards role in fundraising
Boards role in advocacy
Building & maintaining an effective board
Running effective & action oriented board meetings
> Management & Leadership Trainings:
Understanding the nonprofit sector 101
Executive transition
Tips for starting a nonprofit career
Building effective teams
Running effective meetings
Volunteer management