Wishing all of our clients, colleagues, and blog readers a wonderful holiday season and a happy and prosperous New Year! We look forward to our continued collaborations with you in the coming year! – The FUND Consulting Team
As we have discussed throughout our blog series on market studies, the ultimate goal of this type of project is to collect data that creates a set of actionable steps an organization can take to better identify and respond to the need and demand in their current and/or potential service area. Once all of the […]
In this week’s post, we will take a look at one of the most complex phases of the entire market study: data analysis. Because of this complexity and the skill required to successfully conduct data analysis, FUND Consulting recommends using a third party organization with extensive experience in market analysis. As discussed last week, the […]
The data collection and data analysis phases of the market study mark the point at which the project begins to uncover the information that will be used to guide an organization’s strategic decision making. In this week’s post we will discuss the first of these two key phases: data collection. In these phases of the […]
The CDFI Fund announced the awardees for the FY 2012 funding round of the Bank Enterprise Award (BEA) Program. In this round, FUND clients received 43% of the total award dollars and represented 32% of the total number of awardees. Congratulations to the following FUND Consulting clients who received $7,652,866 in awards through this round […]
As we laid out in our last post, FUND Consulting utilizes a four-phased approach for market study projects. The focus of the initial phase of the project is to gain a thorough understanding of the organization’s research and data needs as well as to develop the appropriate key research questions and research tools. Organizational Assessment […]
In this week’s post, we will dive a little deeper into the market study by taking a look at why an organization would conduct a market study and how FUND Consulting approaches the market study process. Why Would an Organization Need a Market Study? As we discussed last week, the market study or market analysis […]
Data. It’s what drives some of the most important questions that organizations ask themselves: How do we maximize our time and resources? Do our products and services meet the needs of our customers? What can we be doing to better meet those needs? In the coming weeks we will be discussing how to make data […]
Last week FUND Consulting joined nearly 1,000 attendees at the Opportunity Finance Network’s Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX. We always look forward to the conference as an opportunity to learn and network with our CDFI clients and partners as well as to take stock of the future of the CDFI industry and what we […]
The FUND Consulting team is excited to be heading back to the Opportunity Finance Network’s Annual Conference next week in San Antonio, TX. We are proud to be a Community Supporter of this year’s conference, and we hope that you will stop by our booth to say hello and learn more about the work that […]