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How Nonprofits Grow

Five Steps to Ensure Adequate Funding

Mission: Congruent with founding core beliefs.

Guiding Principles: Animating work to ensure mission fulfillment.

Strategic Plan: Aligned with mission and guiding principles; reviewed regularly.

Plan of Work: Tactics to fulfill strategic plan.

Philanthropically Ready: Being financially accountable and transparent.

Growing upon the foundation of these five steps and understanding the dynamics of the philanthropic spirit, is much more art than science and much more theology than ideology.

Mission: To help visionary, responsible, & compassionate nonprofit organizations grow to better transform communities.

Guiding Principles : 1) Empowering leaders by inspiring them to commit to lifetime learning. 2) Educating the community about the transformative power of the small nonprofit organization. 3) Giving wings to the spirit of philanthropy. 4) Creating philanthropically ready organizational cultures. 5) Refining the tools needed to fulfill mission and realize vision. 6) Strengthening organizational core values.

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Principal Consultant

David H. Lukenbill

I'm a Sacramento native, married for 26 years, and we have one daughter. We live along the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I have been a consultant since the 1970's and my educational credentials include an Associate of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco, and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.

During the time I have been involved in the nonprofit sector, I've had the opportunity to found several nonprofit organizations and to work with many organizations as consultant, executive, or volunteer; and I've discovered a group of associates whose skills and experience in the important aspects of growing a nonprofit are valuable and accessible.

The principle of subsidiarity from the Catholic Catechism is a great source of inspiration to me: "In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, neither the state nor any larger society should substitute itself for the initiative and responsibility of individuals and intermediary bodies."(#1894)