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Amid this COVID-19 pandemic and statewide Stay-at-Home mandate, we are providing trusted counsel to our clients and helping them survive and thrive the crisis by adjusting best practices in fundraising.
How long have you been an NCPC member?
Netzel Grigsby Associates has been a Sustaining member since 2014 and upgraded to a Premier member in 2018.
What is your Mission?
Our mission is to help nonprofit organizations and institutions achieve their fullest potential by providing experienced professional organizational and financial development management and counsel, using the highest standards of excellence and ethical practices.
By partnering with nonprofits to advance their missions, we make our own contribution to creating positive change in the lives of others, and in building a better world for us all.
How do you benefit most from being a member of NCPC?
As a member of NCPC, our company benefits from networking with all types of organizations, nonprofits, board members, and other corporate entities. We also appreciate the opportunity to share knowledge about philanthropy and working with nonprofits, as well as to strengthen and give back to the profession in North County by serving on the NCPC board.
What do you offer to the community?
Netzel Grigsby Associates is one of the largest and most respected nonprofit consulting firms in the Western United States, with regional offices in San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Jose, and Hawaii. We help nonprofits build capacity through expert counsel in fundraising, planning, staffing, and training.
Since 1985, we have partnered with more than 1,100 nonprofits of every size and sector. Our clients include educational, health, and cultural institutions, faith-based groups, and a wide variety of human service, environment and animal welfare, social justice, and youth organizations. Our clients will share that our professional expertise, our ability to create a cost-effective strategy tailored to their organizational culture, and our genuine commitment to their success exceeded their expectations and left their nonprofits stronger.
Our San Diego team members also all serve as board members of nonprofits in the region, guiding them to achieve their missions and maintain fiscal accountability, gaining a richer understanding of the challenges our clients regularly face.
What is something about your organization/company that might surprise people?
Unlike many national and regional firms, our associates are employees, not contract staff, who live and work locally and who have extensive knowledge of the communities we serve. Our staff has more than 250 years of combined consulting experience.
We have a track record of proven results that is one of the strongest in the industry. We have met or exceeded fundraising goals in 98% of our campaigns during both good and challenging economic times, and we have raised more than $3 billion for nonprofits.
What was your organization/companies’ biggest accomplishment in the past six months – one year?
In the past year, our company’s Southwest region completed three major campaigns for the Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation, Mission San Luis Rey Parish, and Imperial Valley Food Bank.
Our Southwest regional staff also established new working relationships with Diversionary Theatre, Foundation for the Children of the Californias, Mechanics’ Institute in San Francisco, The San Diego Maritime Museum, Cygnet Theatre, Naval Training Center Foundation, The Children’s Musical Theater in San Jose, Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Sacramento SPCA, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, and Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation in Reno.
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ECCD was established in 1974 by former Escondido Mayor Lorraine Boyce and Palomar College Child Development program director, Ruth Clothier. ECCDC is a 501 (3)(c) non-profit Preschool serving children ages four months to kindergarten from low income families. Parents, who enroll their children, must be working, looking for work, or enrolled in school. ECCDC provides children with a comprehensive, coordinated and cost-effective child development program which includes a full range of education, supervision, health, and social services designed to assist children and their families to maximize their full potential. Children may be enrolled in a full-day and/or part-day programs. Early interventions include free annual on-site child developmental screenings and assessments, along with free therapeutic services for vision, hearing, dental health, physical growth & nutrition, speech, first and second language development and early childhood social-emotional competency. Each child is offered two main meals and two snacks per day through the California Child and Adult Food Program (CACFP). ECCDC has two locations operating in Escondido with over 80 employees and 400 children and families served each year. Partial funding is provided through State and Federal Early Childhood Education programs and through public and private donations. For more information please visit: 
Grant Consulting Services helps organizations across the globe to affect positive change through the written word. Grant Consulting Services has assisted organizations in obtaining millions and millions of dollars in grant funding through expert grant research and professionally written grant proposals. So far in 2018, they have helped organizations obtain just over $1 million in grant funds. The organization’s knowledge of all things related to grants has helped bring much needed resources to people living with HIV/AIDS, assisted homeless women in learning job skills, and brought needed medical supplies to 3rd world countries.
Diana Aaron’s affiliation with North County Philanthropy Council began more than a decade ago when she was Executive Director of 
Kitchens for Good (KFG) is a social enterprise 501(c)(3) that uses kitchens as a tool to nourish bodies, empower the marginalized, and create economically vibrant communities. The mission of KFG is to break the cycles of food waste, poverty and hunger through innovative programs in workforce training, healthy food production and social enterprise. In its kitchens, KFG bridges the gap between wasted food and hunger by rescuing surplus and cosmetically imperfect food from wholesalers and farmers and engaging students in a culinary apprenticeship program to transform these ingredients into nutritious meals for hungry families. Since 2015, KFG has rescued over 86,000 pounds of surplus food, distributed over 121,000 meals, and has trained 162 individuals, previously seen as “unemployable,” for careers in the culinary industry. This approach not only feeds the food lines but shortens the line itself by offering pathways out of poverty for individuals transitioning out of incarceration, homelessness and foster care. KFG ensures its sustainability through a catering and food service enterprise that offers on-the-job training opportunities for its culinary students while generating revenue to support the organization’s programs.
Alison Aragon, Grants & Communications Specialist