Do you need information from your members, contacts or donors? Do you need to know how they feel on a certain topic, when and where they would like to meet next, or what direction they would like to take your group or project? Do you need baseline data or needs assessment information for your grant applications? Or how about a feasibility study to prove your group should be funded for the project you wish to take on?

If you are interested in purchasing our help in any of the following data and information collection areas please visit our Contact Request Form.

 

Strategic Funding Plan

Having a clear vision of where your organization will be in three to five years is critical to actually getting to where you hope to be. We are available to help facilitate strategic funding plans for your organization.

This annual $5000 plan:

• Clarifies your vision, mission and goals
• Defines your financial and fundraising plans
• Evaluates current and future programs
• Evaluates current revenue for enhancement suggestions
• Grant Prospect Search
• List of Fundraising Ideas
• Monthly "Show Me the Money!" reports
• Timeline for Grant Submission & Fundraisers
• PDF of Plan and Checklist of Documents needed for Grant Submission
• Helps re-energize your commitment to your future

If interested please contact info@syncopia.net.

Data Surveys

We now offer custom surveys utilizing SurveyMonkey.com that can easily collect and report the answers to these questions. There is a minimum of a $150 fee for a 20-question survey sent to under 200 member's email addresses. More complex surveys are subject to a $35/hour fee. With the information and questions you provide us we will perform the survey setup and collection as well as help you create professional introductions, thank you letters and follow-ups via e-mail.

Please visit our Contact Request Form.

Evaluation Tools

If you have planned your needs assessment well, your evaluation process should not be very difficult. You can do a comparison to a benchmark or standard before and after you have completed your project. A followup survey is another good method of documenting you have made a difference.

Many funders now require a “logic model” as part of your grant application. This tool, originally created by the Kellogg Foundation has been adopted by many federal and private funders as a way to track the progress of a grant project, as well as provide a final evaluation. Syncopia.net can help you create a logic model for your organization that can serve as both a roadmap for your efforts and a valid evaluation tool. 

Custom quotes for logic models are also based on the complexity of your project determined from a $75/hour rate.

Please visit our Contact Request Form.

Needs Assessments

As the dollar shrinks and budgets get tighter, your ability to document the need for your programs becomes ever more important. Funders are also looking very closely at how you will prove your efforts were successful. A strong needs assessment and good evaluation strategy will help put your proposal at the top of the funding pile. Your needs assessments should lay the groundwork for your evaluation.

We can help you design logic models and survey tools that define your needs and provide valid evaluation data for your funding reports. There are five commonly used needs assessment methods that Syncopia.net can complete for you.

Benchmarking –

Compare your organization to national or local standards, centers of excellence, or best practice models. We can research existing data sets, white papers and professional literature to find the best match for your programs.

Representative User Surveys –

What do your clients or customers feel is important? What needs does your organization meet in your community? We utilize online surveys to collect answers to the questions you feel are vital to your programs. This tool can be really useful for social services organizations, where solid comparative data may be hard to find.

Key Informants –

We conduct structured telephone interviews with people who make a difference to your organization such as local decision makers, board members and community business leaders.

Focus Group Interviews –

We bring together in an online chat, a select group of individuals, representing a variety of interests, to discuss issues that affect your programs.

Community Forums –

An open time-limited online “meeting place” where any of your constituents can post ideas and suggestions about your services. These ideas are then prioritized to give you guidelines for your strategic planning.

Custom quotes for benchmarking, user surveys, key informant and focus group interviews, and community forums are based on the complexity and depth required for your project.  Fees are determined from a $75/hour base consulting rate.

Please visit our Contact Request Form.