Services

Working With Abbott Consulting

Working with us is efficient and cost effective. Our process is to first discuss the project with the prospective client, a meeting for which the client is never charged. We then submit a detailed scope of work, a time line and a “not-to-exceed” estimate based on the number of anticipated consulting hours needed. In certain circumstances, we may refer the client to another consultant better equipped to provide the requested service. Though we frequently work as a team in order to capitalize on our combined experience, the client will be assigned one contact person to ensure streamlined communications.Thank you for taking the time to review our website. Please do not hesitate to contact us for examples of our work or client references.

Supportive Housing Program Development

Abbott will help agencies develop services-enriched housing, including approaches to providing on-site services and professional property management.

Organizational Development

Abbott Consulting can assist agencies with all types of growth and change, including effective budgeting, planning, and organizational restructuring.

RFP Response/Grant Proposal Planning and Writing

Abbott will lead your team in preparing successful proposals.  We specialize in local, state, federal, and foundation grant proposals, which we have written for government and for nonprofit clients.  In addition to writing the proposal to your specifications, we can also help with program design, program outcome measures and evaluation component design. We take responsibility for coordinating with the staff team and keeping everyone on task.

Planning and Facilitation

Abbott Consulting seeks to lead effective planning efforts to achieve community goals, foster new partnerships, and lead stakeholders to consensus. We also facilitate stakeholder meetings, Board retreats and other one-day meetings.

Interim Project Management

Abbott consultants can step in to help projects progress despite staff vacancies, or manage projects of limited scope or duration in lieu of hiring permanent staff.

Training for Management and Staff

Abbott Consulting can provide tailored, on-site training sessions on many topics crucial to managing a non-profit housing organization.

Highlighted Projects

Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant:

 Abbott Consulting recently partnered with colleague Kate Bristol to prepare this HUD proposal highlighted in the SF Chronicle:

<<Mayor Ed Lee and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, were joined by a host of regional and federal officials Monday to celebrate the awarding of a nearly $5 million federal grant to plan for Bay Area projects that create affordable housing and jobs along transit corridors. The idea is to cluster development where people live and work around BART, Muni, Caltrain and other public transportation options to help reduce air pollution and the amount of time people waste driving on congested freeways. A key is to make the housing affordable for low-income and middle-class workers who otherwise will continue to commute to the Bay Area suburbs and beyond where home prices are cheaper. Lee said that can be done through partnerships with nonprofit housing developers. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a “sustainable communities grant” to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and the Association of Bay Area Governments to help craft a long-term development plan for the region. >>- Rachel Gordon, sfgate.com, 11/29/11

More on this from MTC: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/news/current_topics/11-11/hud.htm



Youth Housing:

Abbott Consulting is working with youth housing providers in Alameda County to strengthen the system of care for young people ages 18-24. Abbott has prepared an analysis of housing needs over the next eighteen months to coincide with the implementation of AB12, extending foster care to eligible youth up to age 21.



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