As "guides for decision makers," CenterPoint consultants help organizations navigate challenges posed by today's rapidly changing environment. We help you plan for the future, solve problems, train staff and volunteers, improve board/staff relationships, develop marketing plans, design and conduct meetings and conferences, conduct research, evaluate programs, raise funds and, in general, acquire information needed to chart the organization's future course.

CenterPoint staff includes professionals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, headed by Katheryn Wiedman, PhD. Together, we have over 60 years of nonprofit, for-profit, financial, and academic experience. We will help find your direction, focus your resources, and achieve your mission.

Strategic Planning: Guide the planning process; support the environmental scanning process; write documents, reports, and plans.

Board / Governance Development: Board development; bylaws; training; structure; meetings; assessment.

Research: Design and implement information-gathering projects; focus groups; surveys; and research. Make data useable and understandable.

Writing / training: Write board or volunteer training curricula; grant proposals; reports and other documents; staff development.

Meeting Facilitation: Lead and facilitate problem-solving meetings; build group consensus and commitment; design and implement conferences.

Marketing: Marketing plans; market research; desktop publishing; media relations; publications.

Evaluation: Design and implement program evaluation; outcome measurement.

Financial Assessment: Analysis; project administration and budgeting; foundation/trust fund management.

Translation: English/Spanish and Spanish/English translation.

Development / Fundraising: Development audits, feasibility studies, foundation/corporate / government grants, proposal development, project research, and special events.

CenterPoint works comfortably across sectors and in organizations with vastly different missions, scope, and size. A client sampling includes:

W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan
Initiative design and management, research and evaluation, communication, conference design, and implementation

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Conference design, planning, marketing, and implementation

Eleanor Women's Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
Strategic planning

Helen Bader Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Focus group interviews and analysis

Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Employee volunteer program

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Chicago, Illinois
Training and development for church-wide boards and commissions

Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., New York City, New York
Design/write curricula for training council and nominating committees

Our practice is based on the following guiding principles:

• We are committed to ethical relationships.
• We are passionate about quality.
• We are committed to service as "guides for decision-makers."
• We recognize the inseparability of the client's organizational philosophy from planning and development of any project.
• We strive to create a sense of teamwork.
• We make projects useful, practical, feasible, and understandable.