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How NESC Helps
Central Connecticut Nonprofits

 
 

 

  
 

Teams of NESC Consultants for several decades have been helping non-profit organizations in Hartford, Middlesex and New Haven counties. As a nonprofit organization itself, NESC repeatedly has demonstrated its sensitivity to the budget, staffing and other resource constraints of its Central Connecticut clients, many of which are in the arts, culture, health and human services, education, religion and even in government.

 
Events

NESC Consultant Exchange to held in early November.  This is part of an ongoing series of Discussions between non profit clients and NESC consultants on current topics of concern. During the spring meeting NESC consultants engaged in a round-table discussion with members of CT Non Profit on the topic of their recent publication:
Principles and Practices for Non Profit Excellence in Connecticut. The topic and date for the fall Exchange will be announced in early September.
 
NESC Central Connecticut services
  • Strategic & Business Planning
  • Board Development
  • Organizational Analysis
  • Marketing & Branding
  • Systems & Information Management
  • Fundraising Strategies
  • Public Relations & Communications
  • Human Resources
  • Budgeting
  • Executive Search
  • Financial Systems & Controls
  • Facilities Planning & Management
  • Running Meetings & Retreats
  


Recent CENTRAL Connecticut Clients

  • United Way of Capital Area (Hartford)
  • Amistad America
  • Trinity College Community Child Center
  • Jewish Historical Society
  • Broad Park Development
  • Leadership Greater Hartford
  • Capital Region Education Council
  • CT Women’s Consortium
  • New England Air Museum
  • Central CT Health District
  • Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
  • Kuhn Employment Opportunities, Inc.
  • YWCA of Hartford Region


Helping Central Connecticut Nonprofits
Human Resources Review.
Seeking to boost employee retention and to recruit new staff more effectively, a major human services group turned to NESC. After NESC human resource professionals conducted an extensive review of human resource policy, they wrote a personnel handbook which stressed the considerable value of employee benefits, which subsequently helped with employee recruiting and retention.

Coaching.
Among the eight NESC projects for a women’s and girls’ housing and education organization was a series of one-on-one coaching sessions with the incoming Executive Director, helping her understand her role in executing the group’s priorities.

Fiscal Rescue.
Called in to help a residential program for pregnant teens that was in a severe and tightening financial bind and in organizational disarray, an NESC Team assessed the client’s operations and finances, recommended a series of changes and then worked with the Board to introduce and monitor the recommendations.

A Strategic Plan to Sharpen Focus.
While coaching the Executive Director of a Hartford group that develops affordable housing, NESC Consultants identified fundamental problems within the organization. The NESC Team then worked with the Board to craft a strategic plan, which ultimately sharpened the organization’s focus on its most critical initiatives.

Relocation Advice and a Master Plan.
Working with a children’s museum’s executives and Board members, who were concerned about how to achieve long-term initiatives, NESC crafted a Master Plan and a timeline for fulfilling the Plan and, importantly, proposed a mechanism for establishing accountability and monitoring progress. Additionally, to help the museum select a site for relocation, the NESC Team developed an options analysis method and identified selection criteria.

Market Research.
To address the problems of stagnant attendance and revenues at a historic house and museum, NESC marketing specialists researched the market, identified new target markets and proposed ways to boost attendance from existing markets.

Leadership Training for Executive Directors.
NESC Consultants worked with a major community foundation to train its grant recipients’ executive directors to become more effective in reaching their goals, addressing issues and in developing business-style competencies.

Setting Priorities.
An NESC Team helped the executives and Board of a child care center set priorities and develop an action timeline for an existing strategic plan.

Management and Marketing Advice.
NESC experts in marketing, management, organizational structure and public relations recommended ways for a historic ship and floating classroom to expand its operations, boost its public image and function more efficiently and effectively.


Central Connecticut Management Team

Elaine B. McDonald, NESC Vice President and Regional Director of NESC Central Connecticut. (See Sidebar)

John Moore, NESC Consultant and past Vice President and regional director of NESC Central Connecticut, is the founder of the Stonnington Group, LLC, a consulting firm. He served for almost 30 years in insurance industry executive, financial, investment and planning posts. For many years, he has been on the Board of Church Homes, Inc. He earned his BA from Duke University and his MBA in banking and finance from New York University

Nancy Norman, NESC Consultant, member of the Management Committee and past co-director of NESC Central Connecticut, is a former executive director of The Box Project, Inc. She has nearly three decades’ experience building and managing Connecticut nonprofit projects and serves on several church and nonprofit boards. She earned her BA from Centenary College and has completed nonprofit management courses at Hartford Graduate Center.

Roy Norman, NESC Consultant, member of the Management Committee and past co-director of NESC Central Connecticut, is a former Regional Vice President for Customer Services and Operations at Northeast Utilities. He has served on a number of nonprofit boards, on town commissions and as Town Councilor. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Linda Rubera, Office Administration. In addition to working in the insurance industry, she has extensive experience as a volunteer with nonprofits.

 
 

 

 
     
 
 
Elaine McDonald
 

Elaine B. McDonald, NESC Vice President and Regional Director of NESC Central Connecticut

Ph. 860-493-1103

NESCcentralct@aol.com
Elaine B. McDonald, NESC Vice President and Regional Director of NESC Central Connecticut, is a former president and ceo of Aetna Bermuda, a subsidiary of Aetna International and Aetna Inc., where she worked for nearly three decades.
Founder of The McDonald Group consultancy, she and her associates assist businesses and other private sector organizations in strategy design and execution and business development.
She has served on the boards of Aetna Life & Casualty Bermuda and Community Action for Greater Middletown (now known as Community Renewal Team), serves on the Board of The Children's Museum, and as Chairwoman of the Aetna International United Way Campaign. She earned her BA from Albertus Magnus College and a certificate in French language studies from CLE in Tours, France.
 
 
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