Minerva Project Formalizes Relationships with Non-Profits

Consultant, Non-Profit Collaboration Announces Next Step in Phased Effort

The Minerva Project Consultant Team announces an upcoming improvement in its operations.  From here forward, all projects with Non-Profits (NP) will involve a "Team" effort that leverages the best talents of all the Consultants involved in the Collaboration.  "We'll use all of our resources," says George Moskoff, CMC, Minerva Project Founder and Consultant. 

The Minerva Project is an initiative created by North Bay, California professional consultants who have organized themselves to help Non-Profits (NP) during this difficult time of increased demand and sagging donations.  The NP's get some help; the Consultants get something to seek their teeth into and contribute to a good cause.

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The new feature will call for a lead consultant who will "shepherd" the Team effort for the NP.  Moskoff explains: "The Shepherd will be the Consultant who has the greatest amount of work with that particular organization and can see how the puzzle pieces of other consultants might fit together," says Moskoff.

The new program calls for monthly Web and phone conferences among all the consultnats in the program.  This will provide the venue for "checking in" and brainstorming the need for more / different resources.

The Minerva Project will continue to focus on core needs for non-profits but in a more efficient way.  Some of the areas of support include: Fund Raising; Management Development; Board Training and Development; Board Recruitment; Finance and Accounting; Volunteer Recruiting and Retention.

Consultants in the program will sign up for a six (6) month commitment to the work whose structure will include weekly phone calls and monthly face to face meetings with the "clients."  Some of the activities the Consultants will engage in include: Board Trainings / Retreats; Staff Trainings; Personal Coaching of Executive Directors; Market Research; Computer and Web-Based Projects.

Lomesh Shah, of IQR Consulting, specializing in Technology and Analytics said, "Without the work of these non profits, the community would be far worse off.  And, if IQR could,in a small way, contribute to helping these organizations overcome the resource crunch, then it was a worthwhile effort." 

The Program in the Northbay -- Sonoma County -- is part of a statewide rollout of similar initiatives to help Non-Profits and give good-willed consultants something to sink their teeth into.  Minerva Project Founder, George Moskoff, CMC, says "we'll be moving into San Francisco by the end of the year as part of our phased rollout to recruit more consultnats who want to work with non-profits in need."

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Air Travel: A Luxury and Novelty

My Wife Will Think I'm Nuts

My dear wife travels for her job. She hates being away from home. I miss her but it's great when she comes back; our relationship has never been stale even when neither of us has traveled for work.

Tomorrow, I head off on a cross country jet-trek via Southwest to visit an old friend who now lives in Tennessee. I look forward to the high altitudes that an airplane provides to me; it lightens up my thinking, frees my brain from earthly gravitational constrictions. (Is that really possible? I have no idea.) Anyway, I think bigger on a plane.

What does that mean? It means that I think in grandiose ways: I explore why and how I might be able to realize a recent dream of connecting people, from across the planet, to talk, to converse, to compare notes, to complain.

This economic crisis we're in, for instance, provides an enormous opportunity for us to share our common dread, our fears. Perhaps, even grieve together. And, then, dream anew. It's possible and...I'll probably think about something just like that on the plane tomorrow.

Yes, many of us our scared. But, why can't we harness the energy of that nasty four letter word -- love, yes, there: I've said it -- and use it to help each other. We all need help now even if it's just for the purpose of validating. Just to say: "I hear you, brother; I feel your pain." (Sorry, Bubba just entered the room. Clinton, you know?)

On the plane, I might also think about the question of "how did I get so lucky?" You know, there I'll be, flying on an airplane -- it's still a luxury to me -- thinking lofty thoughts, not concerned with my physical well being. I'll be fed, clothed and have a computer through which I can share thoughts with some wonderful people.

I will likely think: I am part of a family where I am deeply loved, respected, appreciated. Made fun of. Laughed at. How did I come to be so lucky? That will be another thought.

So, these are some of the things I will likely be contemplating on the plane. I hope there's a little piece of inspiration that some of you find from reading this. Inspiration to think big.

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