Welcome to Karen Dash ConsultingThere are always challenges to the development and implementation processes for large organizations, institutions, and nonprofit organizations. With a wealth of experience in strategic planning, resource management, and community development, Karen Dash Consulting LLC has helped entities, just like yours, all across the country save time, energy, and millions of dollars. And now, you have the opportunity to take advantage of their wide range of expertise.
Whether you come from the governmental, educational, non-profit, or corporate sectors, our full-service consulting firm will provide strategic planning, program evaluation, and management consulting services on local, regional and national scales.
Our process of evaluating an organization is tailored to your unique mission. Knowing, first, what you and your leaders have determined are your greatest areas of strength, need, and growth, helps the KDC team understand your problems. Then, a breakdown of the structures and systems around your organization and within its members gives our team a deeper look into where those successes and opportunities stem from.
It is most important to understand what you, our client, truly needs, as well as the needs of the people whom you serve. Through focus groups, surveys, and key stakeholder interviews, KDC determines the efficacy of your existing programs, and the opportunity gaps that will need to be bridged in order to reach the goals that you have outlined for your projects and programs.
KDC, led by our owner Karen Dash, cares that you and your team of stakeholders, clients, Board Members, and leaders are engaged in the process and planning. Her years of expertise in a wide range of fields lend significantly to our ability to serve you!
No two organizations are the same, so any project that KDC works on with your team is individualized and tailored to your needs. In order to understand those needs, we execute an Environmental Scan. (Some organizations refer to such analyses as PEST analyses, SWOT or SLOT analyses, or Situational Analyses.) This is an in-depth, customized breakdown of your organization’s strengths, opportunities and efficiencies, as well as an analysis of social, economic, technological, political, demographic, and socioeconomic trends that affect your organization and its stakeholders. Having this information allows the KDC team to have a much clearer view of the steps needed to bring the goals and executions of your organization together.
Karen Dash Consulting LLC provides support to states, counties, and cities in developing a host of plans, reports, and analyses.
Libraries occupy a vibrant and essential role in our communities. Technology and changing public expectations have created new possibilities.
Developing your strategic plan, and the actions to reach your goals, helps leaders to define who and how they intend to serve their various constituencies.
This analysis and assessment identifies the resources and opportunities available in your community to meet the needs of children, youth, and families.
As organizational environments change, we can help leadership and employees navigate those opportunities.
It’s not enough to say your programs are effective; today’s leaders seek hard metrics to quantify program impact.
Our goal is to be at the heart of public policy that strengthens and empowers community development.
