SynthesisPartnership.com
Title
Synthesis Partnership
Contact
- Synthesis Partnership
- 683 Commonwealth Avenue
- Newton MA
- US 02906
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- +1.6179691881
Description
Synthesis Partnership assists nonprofits with strategy, planning, and organizational development and change. The foundation of our approach to any assignment is attentive listening to the situation, needs, culture and aspirations of the client and designing a planning process that will work for them. Occasionally clients come to us with quite narrow and specific needs; more often we guide them through integrated planning processes combining various elements of strategic analysis and planning, institutional identity development, organizational development, program and business planning, and strategic evaluation of facilities.
Our clients have represented a variety of sectors (education, arts and culture, health care, social services, the environment, and others), sizes (no staff to hundreds of staff; budgets in the low six figures to the high eight figures), maturities (start-ups to well over a century old) and experience (organizations new to planning and organizations with extensive history and experience of planning).
Our assignments have included helping organizations to: • develop strategic plans: US Green Building Council (SC), Franklin Pierce Law Center (NH), Kansas City Public Library (MO), several independent schools and congregations • plan comprehensively to further their mission: Trinity-on-Main (CT), Goodspeed Musicals (CT), St. George’s Independent School (TN), International School of Boston (MA) • reshape governance and management: National Inventors Hall of Fame (OH), Fishing Partnership Health Plan (MA), New England Law Libraries Consortium • reevaluate strategy and identity: Brown Medical School (RI), Franklin Pierce Law Center (NH) • take on new challenges: National Trust for Historic Preservation (DC), Mystic Seaport (CT), Save the Bay (RI), Emma Willard School (NY)
Our breadth of understanding of nonprofit sectors and issues helps us to ask the right questions and explore the relevant concerns to assure integrated explorations and solutions. Case studies of some of our projects and articles on strategy, identity, capacity and facilities can be found at www.synthesispartnership.com.
Sam Frank founded Synthesis Partnership in 1995. He has experience as a trustee, manager, and volunteer as well as a consultant. Sam has served on the boards of local and national non-profit organizations addressing education, health care, preservation, homelessness and the environment. He has offered workshops on integrated planning at more than a dozen national and regional conferences of nonprofit associations.
In 2009 he organized Wednesday Webinars, a weekly series of professional development offerings for trustees and staffs of nonprofit organizations. Wednesday Webinars offer a wide variety of presentations on an increasing number of topics, in the areas of governance, management, organizational development, planning, and advancement. Descriptions and free registration can be found at http://bit.ly/SyPwebinars. Sam writes a free e-newsletter, Critical Issues in Strategy, Planning and Organizational Development (http://bit.ly/SyParchive) and a blog (http://bit.ly/SyPblog).
Before founding Synthesis Partnership Sam was Director of Architecture and Design at Corning Incorporated, and Dean of Architecture and Design at Rhode Island School of Design. He was educated in English literature at Princeton University, architecture at Harvard University, and architectural history, theory and criticism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Additional Information
- Architect Selection
- Architectural Programming
- Board Development
- Brand Identity
- Budgeting
- Business Planning
- Construction Contracts
- Consulting
- Dynamic Financial Modeling
- Facility Planning
- Financial Modeling
- Institutional Identity
- Integrated Planning
- Management Consulting
- Master Planning
- Nonprofit Management
- Nonprofit Resources
- Organizations
- Real Time Financial Modeling
- Society
- Strategic Assessment
- Strategic Planning
- Real-time Financial Modeling