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Amanda ReCupido

AR Collective Strategies

Member profile details

First Name

Amanda

Last Name

ReCupido

Organization

AR Collective Strategies

Title

Founder & Chief Strategist

amanda.recupido@gmail.com

Phone

8474452360

Address Line 1

Innovation DuPage

Address Line 2

535 Duane St

City

Glen Ellyn

County

DuPage

State/Province

Zip Code

60137

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Website

https://www.amandarecupido.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-recupido-18385a9/

Organization/Individual Profile

Organization/Individual Overview

Organizations come to me when they’re ready to uplevel. I work with teams to provide clarity and organize plans into action that result in greater funding and advocacy to make real, long-lasting change.

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Services

Strategic planning
Crisis planning
Team training
Board development
Fundraising
Community engagement

Practice Areas (select top 3)

Board Support (Development, Governance, Retreats, Training)
Capacity Building
Communications, Marketing & Public Relations (including Research and Strategy)
Development/Fundraising
Strategic planning

Client List

Social services
Advocacy
Associations
Library support groups
Arts & culture
New and emerging organizations

Testimonial 1

"Amanda is the facilitator you want when your mission and/or scope feel fuzzy. She guided our board and staff in sharpening how we view our mission, ourselves, and our community. She helped us seize the opportunities in front of us, from both an internal and external capacity. Things are clearer now due to her work. Work with Amanda, if you can!”

Testimonial 2

“Amanda is a wonderful strategic planning consultant! She worked at the elbow with our organization to create a clear and viable plan with strategies, success measures and a timeline for operationalizing our mission, vision and moving the organization forward. Her process and engagement with us over the course of the project period was exactly what we needed.”

Testimonial 3

"This is exactly what we needed to guide our next steps."

Publications & Articles

Article 1

How to Stop Managing Your Nonprofit and Start Leading

URL for Article 1

https://blueavocado.org/leadership-and-management/how-to-stop-managing-your-nonprofit-and-start-leading/

Article 2

Don’t Call it a Crisis Plan: How Nonprofits Can Proactively Plan for Turbulent Times

URL for Article 2

https://blueavocado.org/leadership-and-management/dont-call-it-a-crisis-plan/

Speaker Bio

Amanda ReCupido has spent two decades working with nonprofit clients to lead strategic planning efforts encompassing fundraising and communications, staff and board engagement, issues mitigation and more. Beyond work, she volunteers with her local library foundation and has served on the board of the College Career Consortium of Illinois. A published author, Amanda’s stories have been featured in anthologies and media outlets such as McSweeney’s and the Chicago Sun-Times. She’s a public speaker, a frequent podcast guest, and has spoken at storytelling events including The Moth. She holds a BA from Illinois Wesleyan University, and certificates from New York University and
Northwestern University. She lives in the Chicagoland area.

Topic 1

Leveling Up Your Organization: Strategic Planning for Maximized Success

Topic 1 Description

Nonprofits today face many challenges, from funding and staff burnout and beyond. It can be enough just to keep the organization running, leaving little time for strategic thinking. But as nonprofits are also being called upon to do more and be a leading voice in their respective sectors, will yours be ready? This talk covers how to evaluate and build capacity among your organization, from staff and board recruitment, communications, fundraising and donor relations, community partnerships, issues preparedness, and more.

Topic 2

Planning for Proactive Crisis Communication

Topic 2 Description

If a crisis befalls your organization, will you be ready? While an organization may do its best to mitigate risk to ensure that everything runs smoothly, sometimes things go wrong. How an organization responds can have lasting consequences, and having a plan in place before a problem arises can help organizations respond promptly, thoughtfully, and effectively.

Learn the key elements of a crisis communication plan, how to identify potential risks, coordinate messaging, and establish internal communication protocols with board and staff. Discover common mistakes organizations make during a crisis, strategies for managing media inquiries and social media communications, and practical steps for developing a crisis response tailored to their organization.

Topic 3

Managing Conflict & Leading with Clarity

Topic 3 Description

Learn conflict mitigation through building a culture of trust and creating clarity between roles, whether between departments, individual staff members, volunteers, board members, and more.

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