Actions & Achievements

MLK Day & Inauguration Weekend – 2009

MLK Day 2009 was the biggest and best ever, thanks to …

• President Obama’s call for Americans to participate in service activities.
  
• The commitment of individuals and organizations working to make sure Dr. King’s principles and practices are forever advanced.
  
• The leadership of the Corporation for National and Community Service [CNCS] and its grantees.

Americans in all 50 states made this historic weekend and expanded King Day of Service "a day on, not a day off" … delivering meals, refurbishing schools, reading to children, signing up mentors, planting trees, and much, much more. Participation in these service projects is likely to surpass the one million mark--doubling last year's level.

“Last year on MLK Day several hundred thousand engaged in public service. Today it'll be millions.“
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. III

Campaign Consultation, on behalf of CNCS, supported many of these on-the-ground projects with a wide array of services and products, including: weekly Mobilization Memos and Mobilization Calls starting in October, an MLK Day Grantee Planning Meeting in September, a Special Event Tool Kit, media training, fundraising seminars, and coaching on the use of WEB 2.0 and social networking technology. In addition, an MLK Day “fan page” and application designed to generate self-organizing projects were launched on Facebook. Jean Case of the Case Foundation called it: the best Facebook page out there … it should serve as a model for all others to follow.

e-Reporters and e-Photographers were also recruited and trained by Campaign Consultation in the use of Twitter, Flickr and YouTube to further promote MLK Day 2009. The volunteers provided real-time, from the field, hourly updates on MLK Day activities all across the nation.

These e-posting were followed by such groups as CNN, ABC-News, the Huffington Post and the Presidential Inaugural Committee. The Washington Post called this site the place to go for news on what was going on around the country on MLK Day. One highlight included a minute-by-minute report from the Service Nation breakfast in Washington, DC, that included such notable speakers as Maria Shriver, Martin Luther King, III, Congressman John Lewis, and actors Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher.

Until all of us are free … none of us are free!

Campaign Consultation, as part of our Give 5% Initiative, is sponsoring a wild and wonderful event in support of Equality Maryland, which is the state’s leading advocacy group working for Civil Marriage legislation in Maryland.

Equality Rocks! Benefit

Saturday, January 31, 2009
Baltimore, Maryland

A fabulously inspiring evening to raise dollars and awareness in support of Equality Maryland!

We'll get started with a pre-show cocktail reception and silent auction, capped off by musical performances from five of the area's top artists, including internationally renowned gospel and blues singer Lea Gilmore; indie rocker Jason Dove; the Motown sounds of The Motorettes; jazz singer-songwriter Sandy Asirvatham; and the a cappella stylings of Red Hot Blue. Join us for a night of music, stories, and special guests, all in support of fairness and equality for all Marylanders! Click here for more information: http://www.equalitymaryland.org/equalityrocks/index.htm

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Campaign Consultation Corporate Citizenship
GIVE 5 Initiative

Give 5 … Giving 5 Percent of our Income to Communities and Causes

In the spirit of being entrepreneurs for social change, Campaign Consultation, Inc. started its own Give 5 initiative in 1990. Through this annual program, Campaign Consultation shares 5 percent of its pretax profits with employees and then another 5 percent with social causes and social profit organizations selected by our employees.

Each employee is encouraged to make a pitch for one or more causes along with an amount that they believe would make a difference for their selected organization(s). Since the beginning, the Give 5 program has been deeply enjoyed and well received--by the company, our employees and the recipients!

Campaign Consultation, Inc.  -- Give 5 Initiative 2008 Recipients

For a listing of current and past Give 5 recipients click here.

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Communicators Institute

Since 2007, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) has been sponsoring a series of Communicators Institutes to promote public awareness and visibility for national and community service programs. Campaign Consultation conducted the Institutes for a general national service audience in July 2007 and revised the Institute specifically for AmeriCorps in May 2008 and for Learn and Serve America in October 2008. Campaign Consultation created the Institute to help these national service programs hone their media skills, liven up their publications and demonstrate impact. Participants worked with issue experts and peers in the following sessions:

• Build Partner Relations
  
  
• Participate in Social Networking & Web 2.0
  
  
• Update Publications & Website
  
  
• Create a Branded Image
  
  
• Tell Your Story
  
  
• Build Media Relations
  
  
• Craft their Communications Plan
  

	Steven Rivelis works with participants at Learn and Serve America Communicators Institute to plan strategies for promoting community service at places of learning.

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Community Parade … Builds Community

The most successful and sustainable community development campaigns are linked to five strategic factors, know as the Five Cs: Community, Connections, Control, Cash, and Collective Action. These factors are based on an examination of 150 years of research and field experience.

Putting research to action, Campaign Consultation CEO Steven Rivelis organized the first Charles Village Parade in 1998, in the Baltimore City neighborhood where he works and lives. The goal of the parade was to help generate a sense of community and forge deeper connections within the community, two of the key five strategic factors.

This award winning parade includes youth marching bands, art cars from as far away as Texas, FiFi the 50 foot tall pink poodle, a wide array of diverse community groups, and village noise makers.

Delighting the morning crowd that will gather along St. Paul and Charles Streets, the Charles Village Parade continues to be highlight of the Charles Village Festival, held annually on the first weekend in June.

Come see the parade for yourself! Click below to watch a short video celebrating the diversity of this unique and thriving community.

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Two Years In Development, LLIFE™ ...

… different from non-profits, foundations and other 501(c)(3) organizations. LLIFE ™ (Living Legacy Initiative For Entrepreneurs) translates the individual’s engaged business interest into personal philanthropic purpose. LLIFE™ is ready to help you apply your entrepreneurial skills used in business to invest in social, educational and cultural change initiatives at home or abroad.

With you as the primary customer, LLIFE™ provides the knowledge support for your strategic humanitarian decision-making. Your legacy plans come first, before any charitable organization. Legacy consultation includes rigorous research, creative response ideas and out-of-the-box action to achieve outcomes for communities and people in need locally, nationally and worldwide. You can use any one or all of LLIFE™ services as outlined in the following 5 stages …

For more information on how LLIFE™ can help you establish your living legacy through entrepreneurial philanthropy, contact Linda Brown Rivelis at 410.243.7979 x10 or
LBRivelis@CampaignConsultation.com

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TOP 100 INNER CITY COMPANIES:

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CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP CAMPAIGNS:

Campaign Consultation Meets with Top 500 Corporate Leaders Inc. Magazine taps Campaign Consultation’s president – Linda Brown Rivelis, CFRE – to talk to the top 500 corporate executives in the United States on how to launch Corporate Citizenship initiatives. Ms. Brown Rivelis joins Trish Karter of Dancing Deer; Seth Goldman of Honest Teas; and Roxanne Quigby of Burt Bees as fellow presenters. A. E. Hotchner of Newman's Own was the moderator. The Inc. 500 annual meeting was held in Miami, March 25-28, 2004.

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Chevron/Texaco ... hearing and respecting internal and external audiences

Campaign Consultation continues its work to deliver management and employee bridge building, diversity awareness, and leadership learning experiences to business units in New Orleans, Houston and Midland, Texas.

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USA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CAMPAIGNS:

Steven Rivelis, Campaign Consultation's CEO, presents keynote at DOJ's national conference, in Portland Oregon.

He outlined the key Strategic Factors for Building Community and Sustaining the Initiative ... a social change model known as the "Five Cs." The most successful and sustainable community change campaigns are linked to these five factors: [sense of Community, Connections, Control, Cash [and other resources], and Collective action.]

Attendance reached close to 700 representatives from community-based organizations, city/county governments, law enforcement agencies, U.S. Attorney Offices, Weed and Seed programs, and Tribal communities, from across the country. The goal of the national conference was to build effective public/private partnerships, strengthen neighborhoods, build community capacity, and increase community safety.

View the presentation here

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OHIO COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL –
GIZMOs and YOUR ORGANZIATION
The Ohio Community Service Council asked Campaign Consultation, Inc. to create and conduct a session on “GIZMOs and Your Organization” for Ohio AmeriCorps Staff Members in November 2007.  GIZMOs (Giving Information for Zooming Money Objectives) have been developed by Campaign Consultation, Inc. – for the CNCS SustainAbility Initiative and the CNCS Resource and Fund Development Initiative – as a comprehensive set of individual learning tools created for CNCS grantees, sponsor organization and others to raise critical resources.  During this session, participants were introduced to the catalogue of GIZMOs and have “hands on” opportunities to work with them and learn how to use them as resources for your staff and volunteers.

The session presents baseline information on:

• Articulating the fundraising priorities for participants’ organizations
• Identifying the value of volunteer champions in fundraising
• Employing a series of learning tools to engage fundraising champions for participants’ organizations

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ARABBER + CITY YOUTH + BALTIMORE = WIN.  WIN.  WIN. CAMPAIGN
Every 10 years or so, Baltimore runs the risk of loosing a chunk of its heritage – the Arabber.   

Baltimore Arabbers represent generations of vendors, whose fruit and vegetables are made available to people in neighborhoods throughout the city.  Arabbers use horses and brightly painted wagons to distribute their produce and – much like the ice cream truck – attract people out of their houses to the street by calling their unique greeting.   Residents respond by purchasing nourishment curbside that they may otherwise not be able to access.

Recently, the Arabbers’ stable was condemned causing their business to be interrupted and the Arabbers’ livelihoods to be stymied.  In order to stop this erosion of one of Baltimore’s great heritages, Campaign Consultation launched a campaign to link the Arabbers and their professional skills with Baltimore City Youth.   
               
The benefit to City Youth is the ability to receive technical assistance and a working knowledge of how to be an entrepreneur, apply business discipline, count change, greet the public and care for the horses.   Studies that show at-risk youth begin to make vital human connections when given the opportunity to care for animals.  And, many youth seem to be especially enamored with horses.

In response, a number of people have banded together with Campaign Consultation and other organizations to launch a Win. Win. Win. Campaign to....

• Build more neighborhood-based satellite stables
• Construct adjacent rooms for after-school training and technical assistance (T/TA)
• Collaborate with the Arabber community to develop T/TA manuals
• Work with the Arabber community to provide T/TA in awareness, skills and knowledge in the husbandry of horses, applying skills in working with wood and metal in the constructing and repairing carts, customer service, business acummen, entrepreneurial discipline, etc.
• Other

The Win. Win. Win. is an expanded and more ingrained Arabber business that reduces crisis management and spawns profitability.   In addition, city youth will be provided a vital opportunity to learn new work skills and on-the-job training.  And finally, a more profitable, efficient and safer City of Baltimore. 

In addition, there is great interest among social innovators to build upon The Arabber + City Youth Campaign and its increased “green” distribution network to also grow locally sourced food, create “green collar” jobs,  improve nutrition of City residents, etc.   A meeting of 20 people is scheduled at Johns Hopkins to determine next steps.  Stay tuned! 

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AMERICORPS*VISTA Campus Initiative
In an ongoing effort to provide national service members, supervisors and sponsor organizations with the tools and resources they need to better serve communities, Campaign Consultation working with the VISTA to establish an online presence where these products can be accessed and utilized. 

The VISTA Campus will allow users to:

• Research current news articles, journal entries, best practices, suggested readings and more to address the VISTA mission.
• Engage in interactive exercises that provide insights around specific skill sets such as fund raising and community-building.
• Download “Ready to Use” activities, tools and other materials for capacity building tasks in individual, organizational and community capacity building efforts.
• Learn from a variety of “User-Friendly” e-Documents that are formatted to enhance self-directed learning and are designed for use in service.
• Create a “Tool Box” that contains materials that members find most useful in their service-plan tasks.

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THE CADCA RESOURCES NOW! NATIONAL INSTITUTE
Campaign Consultation, Inc. led the CADCA Resources NOW! National Institute in Tucson, Arizona, where participants mastered resource development principles related to private funding and funding strategies.  The week-long workshop focused on three themes, Individual Giving, Business Donor Giving/Partnership and Uncovering Resources in Your Community—Each theme built upon each other for a greater learning experience.  The Campaign Consultation facilitation team is committed to helping community organizations “leap frog” their programs to new heights of knowledge, application and implementation in the art and science of gathering and generating resources. 

• Individual Giving
• Business Donor Giving/Partnership
• Uncovering Resources in Your Communit

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Building Community Institute:
The Key to Lasting Change
AmeriCorps VISTA 5 State Training Institute -
New Orleans, LA
Campaign Consultation, Inc. designed and delivered an intensive four day learning program for VISTA members, VISTA supervisors, and others within the national and community service field who are working to build and re-build better communities. These participants – from across 5 states - work under some of the most challenging of conditions and in some of the most difficult and emotional settings imaginable. The content and design of the training was developed with direct input from state and local offices as well as on-the-ground field representatives and is based on a significant body of research know as the Five Cs. Participants explored how to incorporate critical principles and practices pertaining to creating sense of Community, Connections, Control, Cash and other resources, and Collective action.

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VISTAs Gather to Rebuild and Renew the Gulf StatesIn the wake of last year’s hurricanes, VISTA projects are focused on the long and difficult task of working to help rebuild and renew many of the most affected communities in the Gulf States of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.

At the request of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) -- the organization that administers VISTA, AmeriCorps, Senior Corps and Learn and Serve programs -- Campaign Consultation, Inc. designed and delivered an in service training to 200 participants entitled: Building Community in the Gulf States.

This intensive 4-day learning program was developed for VISTA members, supervisors and others, within the national and community service field, who are working in Gulf State communities, under some of the most challenging of conditions and in some of the most difficult and emotional settings imaginable.

The content and design of this issue-specific and event-sensitive training was developed with significant input from the states as well as on-the-ground field representatives. The framework is based on a set of research-based and field-tested strategic factors for building community: The Five C’s: Community, Connections, Control, Cash, and Collective Action.

Participants were introduced to each of these factors and had the opportunity to explore how to incorporate the critical principles and practices related to each factor into the work they are doing in Gulf State Communities. Click here to download a copy of Strategic Factors for Building Community: The Five C’s.

The training conference was held at the Wyndham Hotel at Canal Place, in New Orleans, which just re-opened.

Bravo to AmeriCorps*VISTA members (Volunteers In Service To America) for giving their time, creative energy and commitment to help rebuild and renew community in the hard hit Gulf States.

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The Rural Initiative ... meeting community and economic development needs in rural communities www.RuralInitiative.org

According to the Rural 2000 Census, more than 600,000 people in the United States live without adequate plumbing. The health of entire communities are at risk as families raise their children in the middle of environmental and economic disasters. In response, Campaign Consultation was asked by AmeriCorps*VISTA to design, organize and facilitate the Summit for Healthy Homes and Stronger Communities in Appalachia and the Rural South.

The two-day Summit stimulated the brainpower of more than 40 leaders representing nine states in Appalachia and the Rural South. Ideas circulated as participants visited local projects, shared resources, examined the latest information on the rural development, and explored innovative project models. Participants also met in topic-specific work groups to develop and implement strategies for agenda advancement.

As a direct result of the Summit, Campaign Consultation helped AmeriCorps*VISTA launch a more comprehensive and geographically broader anti-poverty effort: The Rural Initiative. To continue communication and encourage action on this expanded agenda, Campaign consultation designed and launched for AmeriCorps*VISTA a content-rich and network-enhancing website: www.RuralIniniative.org.

This website is a portal for information and innovation for community and economic development in rural America. The site includes background information from the summit; profiles of innovative program models; a resource library; and an e-community called the Front Porch for exchanging resources, promising practices, and peer-based technical assistance.

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Briefcase for Success/Entrepreneur Corps ... helping people and communities build financial assets, Campaign Consultation developed and launched the Entrepreneur Corps website:www.BriefcaseforSuccess.com

Entrepreneur Corps members – trained to share financial asset development tools and resources to low income communities – use the website to access state-of-the-art resources and tools for financial asset development as well as the message board, chat room, and exchange page to build a nationwide network of financial asset development advocates and practitioners.

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The National ASK (Awareness, Skills, Knowledge) to Sustain Institutes ...
learning despite war and fire Members of the national service community focused, absorbed information and utilized learning at two National ASK to Sustain Institutes conducted by Campaign Consultation and sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service. One was held in March 2003, in Miami, despite the distraction of the imminent war in Iraq. The other was held in October 2003, in San Diego, where participants had to overcame state budget cutbacks and a national emergency to attend the Institute which was held during the Southern California fires. Despite these challenges and braving an environment of ash and smoke, more than 80% of registered participants were enthusiastically present and learning about sustaining their programs.

Learning utilization and transfer was evidenced as the participants applied what they learned during the Institute by raising resources among their own ranks to support local fire victims. They practiced making the “ask” in real time, by soliciting the general manager of the Hyatt Islandia Hotel for matching support. As a result, more than $1,000 was raised to support the fire victims.

Participants applied what they learned in the Media and Marketing sessions and generated a press release regarding the Institute participant’s contributions which was incorporated into a White House communication. Participants departed the National ASK to Sustain Institute with real-time experience in applying sustainability principles and practices despite prevailing difficulties.

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AmeriCorps*VISTA Anti-Poverty Fellows ...
finding practical information for solving complex problems.
Campaign Consultation continues to hire smart, talented and passionate individuals to serve as Anti-Poverty Fellows for AmeriCorps*VISTA. These individuals focus on such topics as financial asset generation, family strengthening, and building the capacity of faith-based and small grassroots initiatives. The variety of backgrounds and disciplines which the Fellows apply to their research is of great benefit to the goal of moving people and communities out of poverty.

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Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) ...promoting service that lingers longer.
More than 12,000 national service members, program supervisors and directors, commission executive directors and others affiliated with CNCS learned how to give community service programs staying-power in workshops designed and presented by Campaign Consultation. More advanced and specific learning sessions have been designed and facilitated as participants have grasped the essentials of building sustainable projects. State-level planners now regularly request help with developing sustainability plans, specific techniques for diversifying funding and tips on social entrepreneurship. Ongoing coaching and just-in-time technical assistance are available electronically to interested participants.

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NonProfit SustainAbility: Mission Possible!
The Association for Volunteer Administration spoke with Campaign Consultation President Linda Brown Rivelis about three trends that impact nonprofit sustainability – Government promotion of volunteerism and service; Corporate support for volunteerism and citizen involvement; and Individual transfer of wealth and values – and a need to restructure traditional nonprofit management teams so leaders can position themselves to attract more resources and build stronger organizations now, and for the future.

Click here to view the Adobe Acrobat version of the interview.

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USAFreedomCorps calls on Campaign Consultation, Inc.
Campaign Consultation helped to design the content for the USA Freedom Corps website which is hailed as "the most comprehensive network of volunteer resources and service organizations ever assembled." This White House sponsored website provides one-click access to information and resources related to such effective practices as mobilizing volunteers from both the non-profit and corporate sectors. For further information, see their website.

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AmeriCorps Promise Fellow Leader Institute: 2002
Campaign Consultation designed, facilitated and coordinated all logistics related to the AmeriCorps Promise Fellow Leader Institute in Houston, TX on March 18-20, 2002. The Institute was developed in partnership with America's Promise and the Corporation for National and Community Service.

The three-month curriculum design process incorporated input from Americas Promise and Corporation for National and Community Service staff, AmeriCorps Promise Fellows and Grantees, as well as Campaign Consultation staff and Associates. The Institute was the culmination of this work, and helped those second year AmeriCorps Promise Fellows and AmeriCorps members structure personal learning maps that would best serve them in their work.

The overall Learning Objectives of the Institute were to:
1. Provide Leaders with awareness, knowledge and skills to pro-actively support Fellows in their programs.
2. Provide Leaders with tools and strategies for expanding the breadth, depth and scope of the America’s Promise mission and the implementation of the Five Promises.
3. Build a support network for Leaders.
4. Provide Leaders with skills to accomplish their project-specific objectives.
5. Inspire and inform Leaders and others about their role within the national service movement and the power of “All Five."

The Promise Fellow Leaders developed a vision for their work as Leaders over the course of the next year.

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Campaign Consultation Supports AmeriCorps*VISTA Entrepreneur Corps Program Launch
Campaign Consultation developed and implemented a plan for national promotion and member recruitment for the AmeriCorps*VISTA Entrepreneur Corps program. This new cadre of 400 VISTA members starts work in August of 2002 through over 30 organizations around the country, focusing on financial asset development and community wealth building activities.

Campaign Consultation's role in national partnership cultivation, information dissemination and communication liaison has significantly increased the profile of the program. Other related activities include technical assistance provision to sponsoring organizations in recruitment, cross-stream collaboration, project management and evaluation matrix development.

Click here to read the Entrepreneur Corps launch press release.

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SustainAbilityOnline.com
Campaign Consultation designed and developed the SustainAbilityOnline.com web site as a practical tool for use by national and community service members as well as other community development workers. The site centers on the four pillars of sustainability Media and Marketing, Volunteer Development, Resource Development, and Collaboration. Users learn to apply the principles and practices necessary to sustain a community-based initiative. The site includes printable worksheets, links to relevant resources, and interactive components. For further information, see their website.

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Corporation for National and Community Service
Campaign Consultation is the national provider of training and technical assistance for the Corporation for National and Community Service SustainAbility Initiative. By delivering a series of learning experiences and resources, this project builds community service, leadership, visibility, partnerships, and funding for national, state and community-based service groups which include: AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps*VISTA, AmeriCorps Promise Fellows, VISTA*Power Up, Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve America.

"Anything with Campaign Consultation is great! Everything they do is terrific!"
–AmeriCorps Director

To date more than 5,000 service project members, state commissioners, tribal leaders and others have participated in learning how to sustain their projects through fund raising, marketing and promotion, collaboration, leadership development as well as volunteer recruitment and retention. For further information, see their website.

"How good is Campaign Consultation? This is the third time our state office has engaged Campaign Consultation ... they do an outstanding job ... providing workshops and follow-up technical assistance ... to reinforce the principles of sustainability."
–State Office Official

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AmeriCorps*VISTA 35th Anniversary
Campaign Consultation designed and produced the VISTA 35th Anniversary Conference: Charting A Course for AmeriCorps*VISTA for the 21st Century.

The focus of this three-day event was to celebrate 35 successful years, forge a stronger connection among alumni and members, and develop new and innovative program ideas that AmeriCorps*VISTA can pilot in the future.

As a result, more than 500 VISTA members and VISTA alumni participated in a process that featured facilitated learning sessions and strategic action work groups to develop new approaches to community service for the 21st Century. For further information, see their website.

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Power UP
Power Up is a new nonprofit organization, created through the joint efforts of the Case Foundation and Colin Powell's America's Promise to bridge the digital divide in disadvantaged American communities. Power UP provides the equipment, technical assistance and on-line curricula for these communities to offer computer labs and literacy to youth. Campaign Consultation provides ongoing strategic design, curricula development and training leadership for Power UP and its grantee communities. Two hundred and fifty communities received Power UP resources in 2000. One thousand new communities are expected to become Power UP recipients in 2001. For further information, see their website.

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Volunteer Initiatives: Recipes for Building Community
This training and technical assistance project, created by Campaign Consultation for the National Volunteer Training Center, is designed to increase the capacity of community stakeholders to work together to solve local problems.

The Recipes for Building Community product has received many positive responses, including the following:"These are some of the best resources I have ever received . They helped me get my job done . Where have you been all my life?"

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TOOL BOX for Collaborative Prevention Campaigns
Campaign Consultation facilitated a meeting of forty-five national organizations which resulted in a BLUEPRINT for a National Multi-disciplinary Prevention Agenda. In response to a call for action generated from this meeting, Campaign Consultation also designed and developed a TOOL BOX to assist community leaders in their efforts to build, sustain, and advance effective prevention campaigns.

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The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Provided ground-level research for the foundation's neighborhood transformation/family development initiative. This work helped to build partnerships with people in eleven cities throughout the country in order to advance a family-focused campaign to create positive change in children's lives. Work included surveys through interviews, internet, publications, etc. As a result, the neighborhood transformation/ family development initiative is well into its second year of realization.

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Open Society Institute
Developed a tailored learning experience for OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows to address marketing, resource development and collaboration. After facilitating and completing the training, participants were evaluated and asked the extent to which they felt able to apply learning following their return to community or work settings. On a scale of 1 not at all to 10 completely, ninety-two percent responded in the 7-10 range. For further information, see their website.

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The Enterprise Foundation
The Enterprise Foundation provides financial resources, training and technical assistance to community development organizations nationwide to help increase the stock of available affordable housing. In an attempt to reach more organizations cost-effectively, the foundation developed a community development library called "C D Works" which is comprised of books, videos, CD ROM's and on-line learning opportunities that can be purchased as a package or individually. Campaign Consultation managed the development, scripting and editing of the video and companion workbook series which is a core component of this library. Topics ranging from the overall process of developing affordable housing and financing to community safety and board development were covered in this 5-part video series.

In addition, Campaign Consultation has designed and conducted a series of board development and fundraising action planning initiatives for community development coalitions located throughout the Washington, D.C. region on behalf of the Enterprise Foundation. For further information, see their website.

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INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CAMPAIGNS:

Republic of Georgia ...
engaging citizens in growing democracy
Campaign Consultation provides onsite coaching to civic leaders from the Republic of Georgia on citizen mobilization skills and citizen engagement strategies. A portion of the week-long learning program involves participants selecting a topic and then practicing the art and science of ...
• message development
• petition drives
• media relations
• public event planning
• issue advocacy
• grassroots organizing
• social policy development

As a result of the hands-on learning experience, participants generated hundreds of signed statements for the cause they were promoting. Another group of participants lead a successful campaign to attract media attention. Most recently, these same skills were used by the citizens of Georgia during the "Rose Revolution" to peacefully force the resignation of Georgian government officials, establish a transitional government, schedule a recall election and elect a new national leader. Campaign Consultation is humbled and pleased to have worked over the past two years with the Georgian activist community in helping them gain the skills to accomplish this desired change toward a stronger democracy.

"A government that does everything for you ... is a government that can do anything to you."
-Steven Rivelis, CEO Campaign Consultation, Inc.

Based on the above premise, Campaign Consultation works with civic, business, government and NGO leaders on strategies for increasing citizen involvement, creating social change, advancing democratic principles and practices, and building a civil society.

Toward this end, Campaign Consultation ...

In Nicaragua, developed and facilitated a three-day workshop and a four-day training of trainers on Social Advocacy for forty-eight leaders from national and local non-government organizations in Nicaragua and Cost Rica. The workshop and training was sponsored by The Nicaraguan Development Center and The Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies.

In Budapest, designed and delivered a five-day training on Leadership Development and Volunteer Mobilization for community and business leaders from Russia, Bulgaria, and Slovenia.

In Cyprus, coached community leaders from Africa, the Middle East, post-Soviet republics, and the Baltics on the tools, tactics and techniques for creating social change.
For civic leaders and human services professionals from Russia and Italy, created a comprehensive multi-week training on Winning Movements, Human Resource Development and Board of Directors & Governance.

In developing countries and Eastern European nations,trained government and civic leaders on leadership development, media relations, lobbying, coalition building and citizen involvement strategies.

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MULTI CULTURAL /DIVERSITY CAMPAIGNS:

Public School System Lauds Campaign Consultation for Its Diversity Train-the-Trainer Session

Steven,
The “bravos” are all yours---your style and your approach to the Diversity Train-the-Trainer Training for our school division was superb! For that group of people at that particular time, you unleashed an enthusiasm about diversity that I had never witnessed. I am very excited about diversity training and the positive effect it will have on our schools. Thank you for your expertise, energy, and effort---you have really made a difference!! I, now, look at you as a mentor as I grow in doing the work of diversity.

City School System - Division Training Specialist

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Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore ... diverse women in action
Campaign Consultation continues to provide diversity training and management coaching to the staff and leadership of Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore as a part of an ongoing organization-wide initiative to enhance internal culture and mission achievement.

Campaign Consultation Works With Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore on Diversity Initiative
Campaign Consultation provided training and coaching to the staff, Board of Directors, and program graduates of Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore. The focus of the training was on diversity utilization strategies.

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National MultiCultural Institute
At the National MultiCultural Institute's 16th Annual National Conference, Campaign Consultation delivered a seminar on "Creating New Paradigms."

"We really appreciated the expertise, level of professionalism and insight you brought to the workshop. Participants in your workshop exhibited a genuine interest in the subject matter and the commitment to the work."
- Elizabeth P. Salett, President

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Diversity and Multi-Cultural Leadership Development
Using a systems approach, Campaign Consultation assists individuals, organizations and corporations to maximize diversity utilization and minimize the impact of intolerance, prejudice, bias, cross-cultural conflict, and diversity tension. Moving beyond simple awareness, this approach provides cross-cultural communication skills, leadership tools, management coaching and organizational analysis to help people move forward, faster, and together toward mission accomplishment.

Recipients of these services include individuals associated with the:

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
Fairfax County Public School System
ICF Kaiser Hanford
International Monetary Fund
MACRO International, Inc.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Multicultural Institute National Conference
Supreme Court of Virginia
Texaco, Inc.
United States Catholic Conference
U.S. Army Management Staff College
Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore

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Soliciting Funds from Minority Communities
Annual Midwest Conference Council on Philanthropy, Kansas City, KS
The Midwest Council on Philanthropy invites Campaign Consultation, Inc. to present a special session on "Soliciting Funds from Minority Communities" at its Annual Conference, held this September in Kansas City.
Building bridges and growing alliances are primary drivers for communities of people to contribute to charitable initiatives. This session emphasizes the why and how of building bridges between people of minority communities and one’s organization. Participants will learn about such topics as guidelines for building relationship within cultural differences, resolving misunderstandings and finding alternative ways to communicate – all critical to successfully engaging minority groups to one’s cause.

Focusing On:

• Participants become aware of some guidelines for how to build bridges and alliances with members from diverse communities.
• Since differences can lead to misunderstandings, participants will leave with an introduction to skills for improving cross cultural communication.
• Participants will be exposed to strategies for soliciting funds from diverse communities after building bridges and alliances.

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Maryland High Court Calls on Campaign Consultation
The Judicial Institute of Maryland invited Campaign Consultation’s CEO – Steven Rivelis – to explore with Maryland State Judges the impact and implications of bias, assumptions and perceptions on the judicial system. Rivelis met with 15 justices in Annapolis, for a morning of exploration and discovery. He was recommended for this consultation by a Supreme Court Judge in Virginia, whom he worked with on their state-wide court system diversity initiative a few years ago.

ISSUE ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS:

CSAT (Center for Substance Abuse Treatment) –
FUTURE SUSTAINABILITY
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) has contracted with Campaign Consultation, Inc. since 1998 to achieve future sustainability of its grantee programs through volunteer development, marketing initiatives and fundraising efforts. 

CSAT’s Recovery Community Services Program (RCSP) is a grant program that offers peer based support to people with substance abuse addiction.  During the past nine years, RCSP programs have won new grants, forged partnerships with state and community agencies and built firm bases of community support.   

Currently, Campaign Consultation is helping RSCP grantees develop standardized measures of effectiveness which will them help compete for additional funds and increase influence in the recovery system within individual states.

Campaign Consultation also works on a consultative basis to CSAT to help plan and implement new strategic and collaborative initiatives, such as CSAT’s Recovery Summit, a series of national meetings of state system officials and treatment and recovery practitioners whose objective was to envision and begin to form a system of care that better integrated recovery and treatment principles and practices.

At CSAT’s request, Campaign Consultation is currently facilitating meetings to develop collaborative infrastructure and agreements which will assist CSAT’s Addiction Technology Transfer Centers (ATTC’s) in working together to produce a new generation of national products that will make effective substance abuse research and optimum practice standards and techniques more accessible to treatment professionals.   

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The National Society for American Indian Elderly
The National Society for American Indian Elderly approached Campaign Consultation with a request for T.O.M. [Targeting, Organizing, Mobilizing] -- a hands-on model and workbook for creating community change.  Developed by Campaign Consultation, T.O.M. has been used by hundreds of communities across the nation as well as internationally to advance lasting community development initiatives.   

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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
Campaign Consultation facilitated the design of CSAT’s Recovery Community Services grantee meeting and designed and facilitated learning sessions on Volunteer Program Development, Training Skills for Program Managers, Marketing and Positioning Your Service Programs. Campaign Consultation has also provided sustainability coaching for grantees in their last grant year.

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Strategizing Solutions for Seniors in Poverty
AmeriCorps*VISTA – in collaboration with University of Miami and Miami Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged – held a three-day Seniors in Poverty Issue Area Conference on September 23-25, 2002. Designed and facilitated by Campaign Consultation, the “by invitation only” strategic action conference was attended by AmeriCorps*VISTA members, leaders, supervisors, project directors, executive directors and leading academic, policy and institutional experts in the seniors and poverty world.

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Getting Welfare to Work... to Work
AmeriCorps*VISTA – in collaboration with Northwestern University – held a three-day Welfare-to-Work Issue Area Conference on July 29-31, 2002. Designed and facilitated by Campaign Consultation, the "by invitation only" strategic action conference was attended by AmeriCorps*VISTA members, leaders, supervisors, project directors, executive directors and leading academics, policy and institutional experts in the welfare to work world.

Overall, the evaluation responses reveal that the participants gained new insight and useful information, left motivated, and were galvanized to take specific actions upon their return to the field. Specifically, the evaluation data shows that the conference succeeded on the most difficult level - it actually changed the participants thinking on and commitment to strategies for achieving ant-poverty outcomes.

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Charles Village Community Benefits District
Capacity building tools and citizen mobilization techniques were successfully utilized by Campaign Consultation to help create and cultivate the Charles Village Community Benefits District the nation's first combined residential and business benefits district. In this benefits district, property owners agreed to a self-imposed surcharge on property taxes. These new resources are then controlled by and available to the entire community to address local concerns.

Located in the heart of Baltimore City, Maryland, the community development campaign achieved outstanding results:

• Significant expansion of local businesses Decrease in crime, burglaries, and robberies by 30%; auto thefts by 24% and larcenies by 13%
• Increase in repairs by local homeowners and citizens to more than 2,000 neighborhood buildings and homes
For further information, see their website.

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Epilepsy Foundation of America
Campaign Consultation initiated a national forum for the Epilepsy Foundation of America to build consensus, develop action plans, and create a solid support base to launch a targeted program for Women and Epilepsy. In addition, Campaign Consultation worked with the Foundation's leadership to expand its cause marketing relationships with such corporations as Tupperware, Champion, Abbott Pharmaceutical and Pfizer. For further information, see their website.

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Office on Homeless Services/
City of Baltimore
Provided vision setting, strategic planning, team building and asset mapping services to staff and volunteers working to develop policies and plan programs for emergency and transitional housing, case management and support services related to homeless relief.

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Center for Substance Abuse Treatment
Recovery Community Support Program
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment provides grants to communities interested in advancing consumer-led advocacy for substance abuse treatment and recovery services through Recovery Community Support Program grants. Campaign Consultation has provided support to these grants through the provision of program planning for annual conferences; design, development and delivery of curricula on sustainability, message development, collaboration and organizational development; and delivery of technical assistance to individual grantees on the development of advocacy campaigns and education of policy makers.

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FUND RAISING CAMPAIGNS:

SOLICITING FUNDS FROM MINORITY COMMUNITIES
ANNUAL MIDWEST CONFERENCE COUNCIL ON PHILANTHROPY, KANSAS CITY, KS
The Midwest Council on Philanthropy invites Campaign Consultation, Inc. to present a special session on "Soliciting Funds from Minority Communities" at its Annual Conference, held this September in Kansas City.

Building bridges and growing alliances are primary drivers for communities of people to contribute to charitable initiatives. This session emphasizes the why and how of building bridges between people of minority communities and one’s organization. Participants will learn about such topics as guidelines for building relationship within cultural differences, resolving misunderstandings and finding alternative ways to communicate – all critical to successfully engaging minority groups to one’s cause.

Focusing On:

• Participants become aware of some guidelines for how to build bridges and alliances with members from diverse communities.
• Since differences can lead to misunderstandings, participants will leave with an introduction to skills for improving cross cultural communication.
• Participants will be exposed to strategies for soliciting funds from diverse communities after building bridges and alliances.

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Department of Justice - Reentry Initiative
The US Department of Justice, Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO), asked Campaign Consultation, Inc. to design, develop and facilitate a session on "Locating Funding for Prisoner Reentry" at the CCDO National Conference, held this summer in Detroit.

The session presents baseline information on:

• helping programs expand their perceptions of service scope
• making a case for different audiences to support prisoner reentry in their community
• finding the critical resources through research tools

The chief evaluation remark from the packed room of participants was that the session provided fresh ways to research, identify and approach prospective donors.

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AIM (Assess, Involve, Mobilize) to Sustain ...
coaching executives and leaders
The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) and the National Council of La Raza both requested Campaign Consultation’s coaching expertise in resource development and solicitation, to help them prepare solicitation materials, recruit organizational champions, and enhance resource development skills.

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Campaign Consultation Supports Fund Development Campaign for The Village Learning Place
Campaign Consultation is pleased to be working to help a technical, job training and library learning center attain the next level in fund development capacity building. Campaign Consultation is building volunteer and staff knowledge and capability while helping to attract $1.5 million in unrestricted corporate, business and community support over the next three years.

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Campaign Consultation’s On-the-Ground
Coaching Pays Off
Campaign Consultation is pleased to provide on-the-ground coaching experience to paid and unpaid leadership of non-profit organizations. Recently, Campaign Consultation provided the Executive Director and the Board of Directors of the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) with on-the-ground coaching assistance in stakeholder cultivation and case for support development. As a result of learning to write a case for support with such characteristics as an active tense with a specific impact message, AFOP was awarded a grant of $100,000.

Marshall Heights Community Development Organization
Innovation Campaign for Unrestricted Support
Campaign Consultation conducted a feasibility study to produce recommendations regarding the launching of a unique campaign to raise unrestricted funds for a consortium of neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., that constitute one of the oldest African American communities in the country. For further information, see their website.

"I've been here for more than seven years and have experienced many consultations. This work is by far the most useful. Thank you."
–Patricia Press Director, Office of Planning

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ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CAMPAIGNS:

National Project Performance Symposium ...
building an accountable and high performance community service sector.

Campaign Consultation developed and implemented the National Project Performance Symposium for AmeriCorps*VISTA and National Senior Service Corps – a three-day gathering to foster the advancement of four strategic priorities:

• The President’s Mentoring Initiative - with a focus on Children of Inmates
• Financial Asset Generation
• Strengthening Families
• Empowering Faith-Based and Small Grassroots Organizations

The symposium achieved the desired goal of creating a synergy within states to significantly advance the above priorities and share effective practices for measuring project performance. More than 100 individuals representing 15 state-based teams gained priority understanding, participated in performance measurement training, and various other working sessions.

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Building Effective State System Training (BESST) ... leveraging collaboration
In times of budgetary constraints, individuals and systems are interested in working smarter and more efficiently. Toward this end, Campaign Consultation is working with the Corporation for National and Community Service to better understand and learn what contributes to and what inhibits successful collaborations. The first step in this campaign is a nationwide “listening project” consisting of interviews with Governors’ offices on volunteerism in six states to collect star-quality examples of partnership building and cultivation. These case studies will be published widely to inspire new approaches to help other states develop dynamic cross-sector state training systems.

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Texaco, Inc.
Related to Texaco's diversity initiative, Campaign Consultation has assisted with the delivery of the Diversity Learning Experience; development of training initiatives for managers and supervisors; and served as facilitator/coach for the Diversity Councils in Harrison, New York and Midland, Texas.

Related to Texaco's pending merger with Chevron, Campaign Consultation has provided organizational change, message development and team building technical assistance. For further information, see their website.

"Campaign Consultation's facilitation was right on! They let us go to be ourselves. It was the type of facilitation that this team needed to begin the process of actually being a team. Their use of the proper tools was extraordinary!"
–Council/Leadership Team Member

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Population Action International
Founded in 1965, Population Action International is an independent policy and research group working to strengthen public, political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights.

Working with PAI's Senior Management Team, Board of Directors and the staff-based planning work group, Campaign Consultation provides technical assistance related to strategic planning, strategic action and message development. For further information, see their website.

"Spending the morning in one of Campaign Consultation's strategic action sessions is like having the first cup of coffee of the day. One goes in muddled, but comes our refreshed, aware and ready to move forward."
–Mathew Guyer, Director, Strategic Planning

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Institute for Partnership Development (IPD)
Strategies for Sustaining the Initiative Institute
Campaign Consultation, in collaboration with Macro International Inc., developed the institutes shown above for the U.S. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP).

Each of these multi-phased, skill development learning programs provide an opportunity for community leaders to explore issues surrounding organizational change, transition and growth, as well as discover and investigate strategies that support and advance an organization's mission.

According to evaluation finding by the Pacific Institute for Evaluation and Research ...

"The IPD increases the capacity of its participants to develop and sustain effective community-based initiatives."

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MEDIA/MARKETING INITIATIVES:

National Service Communicators Institute

The Corporation for National and Community Service sponsored its first-ever Communicators Institute, on July 15, in conjunction with the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, held in Philadelphia from July 18 –20. Campaign Consultation created the Institute for CNCS with sessions that would help those who are working to build public awareness and visibility for national and community service programs. Working with issue experts and peers, the participants discovered how best to:

• Hone Their Media Skills
• Liven Up Their Publications via a Creative Critique Clinic
• Tell Their Story
• Build Media Relations
• Demonstrate Impact
• Boost Their Brand
• Use Blogs, Pods & Vods, and
• Craft Their Communications Plan

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iCONNECT CAMPAIGNS:

iConnect is a collection of web-based venues designed by Campaign Consultation to advance the unique agendas of our clients. iConnect provides a place where people discuss critical issues, examine new ideas, solve problems, exchange promising practices, share resources, receive technical assistance, as well as engage in strategic action planning and mobilization.

Current iCONNECT CAMPAIGNS

Urbanite Café

SustainAbility Salon

Front Porch

Seaside Agora

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