Case Study: American Cheese Education Foundation (ACEF) - Visioning & Strategic Support
BAckground
ACEF is the fundraising leg for the American Cheese Society (2400-member international industry association) and provides education scholarship funds to support those across the cheese industry, from farmers and cheesemakers through distributors and cheese sellers. They were looking for help - feeling their team wasn’t entirely aligned and that their direction was murky.
mmc Services Provided:
Mission refinement
Boilerplate organizational description development
3-year vision, goal, strategic plan development
Roadmap initiation
Structure
Team workshops & facilitation.
Impact
Marty designed tailored workshops for ACEF’s board in order to help it develop a clear, forward-looking alignment that the whole team was excited about. Together we discussed development - fundraising cycles and aligning outreach and planning to those cycles, leveraging impact and outreach materials together to fundraise, and how to focus to set and work towards specific goals and outcomes. The group helped refine the organization’s mission statement, vision, core values and created strategic plan together.
“Marty was an incredibly brilliant and bright figurehead during a large strategic overhaul in our non-profit organization. Her direction and wherewithal proved vital in advancing our organization and board’s understanding of what, where, when and how to focus our time. All with a smile and guidance that never felt forced. Would highly recommend!”
