We are proud to support communities as they invest in early care and education to build a stronger workforce. Recently, Boone County, Indiana, took a major step forward by commissioning a county-wide early childhood study to better understand the current landscape of child care. Our team was honored to play a role in that effort. Understanding the Child Care Gap: A Workforce Development Study in Boone County
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TCG’s Amanda Lopez Empowers Indiana Head Start Leaders to Harness Data for Impactful Storytelling
At this year’s Indiana Head Start Association Leadership Retreat, Amanda Lopez, President of Transform Consulting Group (TCG), led a powerful session with Indiana Head Start grantees on “How to Use Data to Tell Your Story.” TCG’s Amanda Lopez Empowers Indiana Head Start Leaders to Harness Data for Impactful Storytelling
What’s the benefit of community indicators?
Is your community striving to address complex social issues such as ending homelessness, solving the childcare crisis, or strengthening the workforce? These challenges require a collective effort; no single entity can tackle them alone. By using community indicators,...
What is an Anchor Collaborative?
Many communities struggle with low education, high poverty, and crime rates. Disinvestment hinders progress, but an anchor collaborative can help drive lasting change for a brighter future. As Montclair State University (Montclair) and Transform Consulting Group (TCG)...
Marketing 101: 5 Ways to Enhance Your Social Media
At Transform Consulting Group, we see many organizations launch services and programs in response to an obvious need in the community or a gap to address. Your organization is getting into your work, because you have a passion for a cause. Too often nonprofits spend...
Step 4 of the Strategic Planning Process: Create the Strategic Plan
3 Strategic Planning Tools to Create Congratulations! You have journeyed through the four steps of our strategic planning process, and you’re ready for the final step: Create the strategic plan. (We covered steps 1, step 2, and step 3 in previous blogs). The goal of a...
4 Steps of Strategic Planning
“If you don’t know where you are going, how are you gonna’ know when you get there?” Yogi Berra We have the privilege of working with organizations to help them create their “road map” or strategic plan for the next 3-5 years. In the course of completing these...
Collaborative Grants Lead to Greater Impact
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more children and youth have experienced anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and distress due to social isolation and economic conditions. Remote learning has led to learning loss across the country, evident in the drop...
6 Strategies to Maximize #GivingTuesday
Year-end giving can always be a challenge as everyone is trying new strategies to make the most dollars in a small window of time (check out our 10 tips to implement here). One strategy to include in your campaign is #GivingTuesday. Giving Tuesday falls on the Tuesday...