Clients

do good Consulting works primarily with small to mid-sized non-profit organizations, government units, and businesses, as well as individuals. We specialize in grassroots-oriented techniques to help organizations seeking to expand their fundraising skills, increase the effectivenss of their communications and marketing, and deepen their impact. Here are a few highlights of do good Consulting's current work.

Business Solutions Center/
Coles County Habitat for Humanity

Through a subcontracting arrangement with the Business Solutions Center at Eastern Illinois University, do good Consulting is working with Coles County Habitat for Humanity to develop a business plan and feasibility study to help the affiliate, which builds low-income housing, to open a ReStore resale operation. do good is also working with the affiliate to help them diversify their overall fundraising stream.

The Business Solutions Center is a public/private partnership providing free and confidential counseling and youth entrepreneurship education in East Central Illinois. The organization provides early entrepreneurship education and business support services to entrepreneurs and existing businesses.

Coles County Habitat for Humanity was established in 1989 to work together with hard-working partner families to build their homes. Partner families invest "sweat equity" and in return homes are sold at no profit and financed through no-interest loans held by the affiliate.

Camp New Hope

Based in Neoga, Illinois, Camp New Hope is a non-profit organization founded over 30 years ago by families of people with developmental disabilities running some of the best recreational programs available for special needs individuals. Camp New Hope provides affordable quality programs and services to campers with widely diverse needs and abilities such as Summer Camp, Young Athletes, and Year ‘Round Respite. In addition to providing a caring, nurturing environment for those with developmental disabilities the organization also provides parent and family support.

do good Consulting is working with Camp New Hope on marketing initiatives for their camp, including this printed brochure highlighting rental opportunities for their beautiful facilities and grounds.. do good also partnered with the Lumpkin Family Foundation in 2011 through the Digging Deeper to Enhance Performance (DDEP) program to provide Camp New Hope with a full organizational assessment to build organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Champaign County Forest Preserve District
Champaign County Forest Preserve Friends Foundation

The Champaign County Forest Preserve Friends Foundation is an independent non-profit entity promoting fundraising activities for the Champaign County Forest Preserve District and providing assistance to the programs and projects of the District. The organization’s role is to preserve and enhance the County’s natural and cultural resources by supporting and fostering conservation, education, and recreational programs for the benefit of Champaign County. The Foundation is a separate entity from the Forest Preserve District and does not receive tax revenue or user fee support.

do good Consulting is leading the Champaign County Forest Preserve Friends Foundation through the process of developing a five year written strategic plan.

Christie Clinic

Christie Clinic is one of the largest physician-owned, multi-specialty group medical practices in Illinois. Founded in 1929, the Clinic serves east central Illinois and today boasts of over 40 departments and 35 specialties allowing physicians and staff to take care of virtually every aspect of family health.

do good Consulting is assisting Christie Clinic with the Clinic’s website and social media needs as well as some marketing initiatives.

Christie Foundation

The Christie Foundation was founded in 1975 to improve the quantity and quality of health care education available to the public. The organization’s vision is a healthy, fulfilling life for all. In pursuing its mission of enhancing medical knowledge, education, and medical services for citizens and health care practitioners in east central Illinois, the Foundation focuses its giving on:

• Promoting education and training to increase medical knowledge for health care practitioners and the general public;
• Sponsoring symposia and programs on health care topics;
• Providing scholarships to individuals in the medical sciences and allied health fields;
• Offering management and funding for medical services; and
• Making grants to community organizations supporting medical research and education.

do good Consulting is working with the Christie Foundation on strategic planning, fundraising, marketing, videography, program planning, systems upgrades, special event planning, database development, website development and hosting, and much more.

Engaging Youth for Positive Change
Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD)
Institute of Government and Public Affairs
University of Illinois

Engaging Youth for Positive Change (EYPC) is a transformative process empowering young people to work with local governing bodies to adopt policies that create healthier communities.

Trained facilitators guide youth to identify the change they desire, learn about the workings of local governing bodies, engage friends, neighbors, and business leaders in their efforts, and communicate with elected officials to create change.

EYPC’s results are impressive. Since 2005, EYPC youth-led groups have created smoke-free public places, facilitated safer parties and gatherings, restricted alcohol use at community events, and much more. The EYPC program is offered through the Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD), Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois.

do good Consulting is working with Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois to create a template-based system for updating EYPC curriculum materials, create easy-to-use, eye-catching, and engaging layouts and iconography, and develop marketing and recruitment materials, including a new logo (above), website, video, Facebook page, and flyer.

Environmental Education Association of Illinois

Since initiated in 1972, the Environmental Education Association of Illinois (EEAI) supports and advances quality environmental education throughout the state, providing leadership at the local, state, and national level in the environmental education community by providing and supporting professional development services to formal and non-formal educators.

The organization offers environmental education conferences, promotes supplemental environmental education curricula such as Project Learning Tree and Project WET, publishes a periodical devoted to current information and ideas about environmental education, and reviews and makes recommendations regarding environmental education materials.

do good is working with EEAI to develop a diversified development strategy and to install and customize a new GiftWorks database system.

Gigabit.coop

Gigabit.coop is an internet service provider built on the utility cooperative model, bringing the fastest, most affordable internet to central Illinois.

As a cooperatively-owned and operated business, Gigabit.coop is pooling community resources to build and operate a broadband network in our region’s own best interest, keeping our local dollars local and multiplying those dollars to build stronger families, a stronger community, and a strong local economy.

Gigabit.coop’s model keeps revenues and jobs in the local community – close to $200 million dollars will be injected into the local economy over the next 20 years as a result of our project where other business models are corporate-focused. These other models lead to higher prices, less community control, less responsive service, and a lot of unnecessary frustration. Plus, construction and operations jobs are lost when contracts go to large out-of-town firms. That doesn’t help you or your community.

Gigabit.coop means a strong local economy fueled by good, local jobs and new economic development potential. It means being customer-focused – and transparent. And it means the lowest prices and the fastest speeds.

do good Consulting is working with Gigabit.coop to develop its business model and plan, develop marketing materials like the logo (above), flyers, PowerPoints, and a website, and promote the business to stakeholders and residents throughout the service region.

Midwest Athletic Complex & Institute

The Midwest Athletic Complex & Institute is developing a regional/national multi-sports, fitness, training, recreation, and entertainment complex in Champaign, Illinois. The facility will host large regional sports events of nearly every type as well as attract day users for fitness, education, and training needs. The site plan also calls for a hotel, restaurant, convention space, and even a minor league/multi-use ball park.

The Midwest Athletic Complex & Institute will provide sports training, competition, and sports/health-oriented activities, programs, and entertainment features within a variety of state-of-the-art outdoor and indoor equipment, fields, courts, and facilities. It will also serve as a significant economic driver for east central Illinois, generating an array of new jobs, new construction, and new tax revenue to fuel our local economies.

The overall Midwest Athletic Complex & Institute project is planned as a sustainable development that will include commercial, public, and non-profit elements designed to operate synergistically within one environment as a point-of-destination for the region.

do good is working with the Midwest Athletic Complex & Institute to create community connections to entice investors and partners and to develop the project. We are also working on printed materials to promote the project, including the logo above, this site-holding webpage, and this PowerPoint presentation.

Mindful Teacher Foundation

The Mindful Teacher Foundation is a new organization providing training and support for K-12 teachers seeking to cultivate mindfulness in their classrooms and in their own lives. The organization educates stakeholders about the benefits of mindfulness and how it can be cultivated in the classroom, helps teachers in K-12 schools develop and sustain a personal mindfulness practice to model and teach from direct experience, and develops mindfulness curriculums for use in classrooms.

do good Consulting is leading the Mindful Teacher Foundation through the new organization start-up process, including all necessary state paperwork, the 501c3 process, and other necessary filings and documents.

Urbana Museum of Photography

do good Consulting is leading the Urbana Museum of Photography through the new organization start-up process, including all necessary state paperwork, the 501c3 process, and other necessary filings and documents.

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