Volunteer Business Planning Consultant for L Life Food Pantry
Job Description
L-Life Food Pantry is seeking skilled volunteer support through Taproot Plus. Taproot Plus is an online platform that connects nonprofits to professionals seeking strong opportunities to volunteer their talent for good. All Taproot Plus projects are vetted and once L-Life Food Pantry selects a volunteer applicant, Taproot Plus will provide resources and support to help make the project a success.<p><br></p>http://www.l-life.org<p><br></p><strong><u>About This Project</u></strong><p><br></p>If you would like to learn more about this organization and project, please follow the apply link to schedule a preliminary call with a representative of the organization.<p><br></p><strong><u>About This Organization</u></strong><p><br></p>The mission of L-LIFE Food Pantry is to build a better collaborative partnership between relief agencies, charitable organizations, and the business community to stabilize stressed family households with food assistance, better nutrition, and guidance toward recovery. Our goal is to improve the quality of life in Laclede County by building stronger families.<p><br></p>Business Planning – Facilitation of Business Planning<p><br></p>Our nonprofit needs facilitation support as we shape our business strategy.<p><br></p>We are looking to get our board members engaged in the process of developing our first business strategy plan that will extend through the next 3 to 5 years. We would like to have an outside strategy consultant guide our Board and key staff members in creating this plan. We are ready to go to the next level with our nonprofit organization. We are located in a small rural Missouri county and need an experienced strategy consultant to help guide our Board and key leaders in the development of a long-term business strategy plan. We have contacted several organizations within a few hours of our location, and they want a minimum of $10,000 or more to do this. While we understand the importance of what we need done and the value of a skilled facilitator, we would be open to Zoom sessions to help us build our strategy plan.<p><br></p>On June 24th we had an outside consultant come in, and held a 3 hour vision session, to get us preparing for developing a strategy plan. This was paid for by a grant we were awarded.<p><br></p>Once strategy planning is completed, our board members and key leaders would hold each other accountable. In addition, at each board meeting we would spend time reviewing and ensuring we are moving forward and meeting each of our key milestones. We would most likely create a task force to oversee that we are following up with the goals we agreed upon, or utilize our executive committee to oversee this.<p><br></p>This project can be done remotely.
