Strategic Planning: A strategic plan provides your road map to success.  Some organizations have great ideas but just do not seem to reach the desired outcome.  Others have been effective, and simply reach a point where things become stagnant.  Still others continuously strive to outperform their competition.  Strategic planning helps you better position the organization for optimal performance.  Simmonds Ballentine, LLC will guide you through the strategic planning process, ensuring that you are prepared to capitalize on your particular situation.

Capacity Building: A plan is worthless if you do not have the capacity to achieve your desired outcomes.  And, any firm you engage should also be able to build your capacity to implement their recommendations.  From improving internal policies and procedure, to enhancing your communicative abilities, to building the necessary coalitions and funding sources, Simmonds Ballentine, LLC will enable you to fulfill your mission.

Training Development: There is a direct connection with business outcomes and individual professional development.  Without proper development of staff, constituents or affiliates, the strategic goals of your business may be adversely affected by the lack of proper training.  Our training development services will provide your organization with continuing professional development opportunities and demonstrate the standards of performance to achieve your strategic goals.  Simmonds Ballentine, LLC develops and executes training based on sound adult learning styles for optimal buy-in from training participants.

Grant Administration: Without developing a sound grant administration process, your efforts will fail.  Grant administration provides your organization with sound fiscal responsibility.  It helps you better demonstrate standards for your grantees to ensure that services are being delivered to the community.  To prevent mismanagement of funds, government scrutiny, and subsequent loss of donors, it is extremely important to have a thoroughly planned administration process.  Simmonds Ballentine, LLC will develop your grant administration process, ensuring greater transparency and compliance.

Conference Management: Whether you are delivering a periodic event to increase capacity, share best practices or promote networking opportunities for your affiliate organizations, our conference management services will ensure that your event is a success.  Through such events, you will be able to build the capacity of your current network while bringing in new constituencies.  We will help you create an event that will strengthen the ties amongst affiliates and between affiliates and the national organization.