Spring 2023 Newsletter

By Schonfield Consulting | April 13, 2023 |

There’s a lot of “change afoot” across the U.S. with Trump’s indictment (what a trip to watch!), Passover/Easter happening, and our long, wet winter in California finally changing to Spring.

At Schonfield Consulting, we’re experiencing change as well, with a diverse group of clients, our growing team, and increasing connections. See more below about several new clients and their inspiring work.

Please reach out if you have a project you want to discuss or to tell us about any changes on your end. We’d love to hear from you!

In partnership,

Anne and the Schonfield Consulting Team

Bayer Supports STEAM Education

Since summer 2022, we’ve worked with Bayer, an international biotechnology company with a biomanufacturing and development campus in Berkeley. We’re supporting implementation of their STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) Education community benefits program, part of Bayer’s recent revised Development Agreement with the City of Berkeley. Per the agreement, Bayer will invest $1.5 million in awards over 5 years to support local organizations working to diversity the STEAM workforce pipeline and reach Berkeley students traditionally under-represented in STEAM fields. We helped Bayer organize a grant review committee, requested proposals from leading organizations, and supported the committee’s initial selection process. Bayer finalized the first round of awards in late 2022, and will support multiple community organizations working in pre-K through community college grade levels.

Learn More About Bayer’s Community Benefits

Fundraising with United Women of East Africa

Since mid-2022, we’ve partnered with United Women of East Africa – a non-profit based in San Diego that is deeply rooted in the East African immigrant community, offering health services, education, youth advocacy, and community building. We’re working closely with UW’s Executive Director to increase their fundraising so they can expand their important work. The fundraising support includes foundation prospecting, foundation outreach strategy and mapping the landscape of other refugee organizations.

Learn More About United Women East Africa

We’re Hiring!

Schonfield Consulting is looking for an Associate Consultant (part time, contract position) to join our growing team. You can find the job description here. If you know anyone interested in joining our social impact consulting firm, please pass this along!

Apply for the Associate Consultant position here

Posts on LinkedIn

We’ve joined the social media world with regular posts on LinkedIn, exploring new trends in philanthropy, reflections on non-profit news, and other topics. You can follow us on LinkedIn and also track our posts on our website.

Need support with your fundraising or strategic plan?
We can help!
Schedule a free consultation.

Tagged Bayer, Hiring, LinkedIn, United Women East Africa

"Anne is the quintessential consultant — she listens well, asks good questions, is easy to work with, and a great "thought partner." She is the person you want on your team if you want to get s**t done and not waste time. I will work with Anne anytime."

“Anne and her team bring a wealth of experience in process design, community investment best practices, and clarity of objectives and program metrics. I would definitely recommend Schonfield Consulting for their rigor and drive to achieve results.”

“Anne and her team played an integral role in designing and implementing Well Being Trust's grant making. Anne is extremely efficient and good at moving things forward. I value Anne’s input tremendously and appreciate her warm and positive manner.”

“Anne and Amy did a marvelous job with our strategic plan -- sensitive to the needs of staff, leadership and Board; focused and efficient; encouraging and relentless. Hidden Villa made an excellent choice to work with Schonfield Consulting.”

“Anne is brilliant at strategic planning. She worked with the NRDC India team to chart our vision and plan for two plans spanning 10 years. She guided a tough task to successful completion by keeping us on target. I highly recommend Anne!”

"Anne is a pleasure to work with and guides you through the difficult strategic planning process with thoughtfulness, passion, and a great work ethic!”

"The ABPAS business plan that Schonfield Consulting helped us develop clearly explains our mission to investors and donors. The research Eva did was comprehensive and well-presented. The services provided by Anne and Eva can definitely help propel many other agencies like ours.”

"We needed someone who was independent, highly focused and knowledgable about capturing data from nonprofits. The final report was excellent. Thanks for taking on Fresno!"

"Anne is a valued colleague and I highly recommend her to anyone needing a top notch consultant... The quality of her work is excellent and her ability to turn it around quickly was very impressive."

"Thank you for carrying us through this process. The end result is pretty dramatic, thanks to your careful eye, your methodical work, and your creative suggestions. You’re a superstar!"

"From her insights into fundraising, to her pointed questions on strategy and her well-organized agendas -- Anne's support has been invaluable. Anne has great energy and is an important member of the TAHMO team."

"Anne has done excellent consultancy work. Her research and review of grant materials produced high quality outputs—she asked tough questions and delivered on time. I would highly recommend Anne."

"That was a great event. Thanks so much for a fantastic facilitation – you know your job and you do it very well! I'm already looking forward to next year’s meeting."

"Working with Anne was extremely excellent! We were very happy with the board retreat and initial strategic planning. The summary report from the retreat is great and goes a long ways to setting a future agenda for CCS."

"Thanks for the excellent job on the case studies. I presented your work at the convening and it garnered a lot of attention. I’m excited to see how things move forward!"

"It was a pleasure working with Schonfield Consulting on our health program evaluation. Anne was super thoughtful and organized, and helped us translate lots of data into a very useful product for our Board."

“Anne provides us with excellent fundraising advice. She put a lot of time and thinking into an excellent fundraising retreat with Board and staff. We did some darn good work and had a good time doing it!”