Testimonials
Our Featured “Resilient” Nonprofit Organization: The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation
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Testimonials
Time and again, the Organizational Resiliency Gameplan (formerly known as the Risk Navigation Tool) provided by Patmos has proven valuable to nonprofits of any size. Here is a sampling of organizations that have benefited from becoming more resilient:
“For our participating nonprofits, their interaction with the Risk Navigation Tool created an opportunity for rich and informed board and leadership discussion and identified areas of expertise and areas where additional assistance may be indicated.”
Joanne Pulles – President – The HCA Foundation
“I found the tool exposed me to new concepts and ways of looking at my agency. It clearly helped my board president and I examine how we need to tackle the challenges of our organization in a different way. We came away from the workshop with a plan. We selected three areas to address and we are already underway with a plan.”
Vicki Beaver – Executive Director of Nurses for Newborns
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Deana Claiborne – United Cerebral Palsy of Middle TN:
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STARS is a highly regarded school and community based program for youth with a budget of over $3,000,000. Its board of directors and key management are using the recommendations of the Organizational Resiliency Gameplan operationally and in their strategic planning process in order to increase liquidity, experience efficiencies and cost savings in back office collaborations with other organizations, implement infrastructure, and improve communication with stakeholders internally through an employee engagement strategy and externally through social media efforts.
Here is what Cynthia Whetstone, Director of Operations reported in a recent grantor/grantee gathering about how board and staff addressed the issue of cash flow in light of the Organizational Resiliency Gameplan’s findings:
“Although historically STARS has maintained a strong cash balance, at the point in time the survey was completed, STARS average cash on hand was unusually low. Seeing how cash flow impacted the scores on the report, it reinforced the need to put additional safeguards in place to protect cash. After meeting with our board, it was decided that STARS needed to take a more aggressive approach in our contracts regarding payment terms and in collecting past due invoices. It was also decided that STARS would be more deliberate in the overall budgeting process to build in additional cash reserves. As a result of these changes, the average number of days of cash on hand has increased by 40%.”
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