MPS Team Helps Friendship Place Raise Needed Funds

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It’s important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It’s the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.  –Dorothy Height

MPS Consultants Lily Seglin and Marci Owens began their journey with Friendship Place in October, 2018, when the executive leadership team of the Washington, DC-based nonprofit came to MPS, seeking a strategy for developing new…

Quality and ISO Certification

What constitutes Quality? In “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” the hero’s quest for the meaning of Quality leads to madness. If you google Quality, you might find something like “…the non-inferiority or superiority of something; it’s also defined as being suitable for its intended purpose while satisfying customer expectations.” That’s Wikipedia. According to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO),…

MPS Helps Points of Light with Project Management Framework

 “I have spoken of a
thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread
like stars throughout the Nation, doing good,” 
declared President George H.W. Bush, in his 1989 inaugural address.
Almost 30 years later, as the world mourned his passing, MPS consultants were
hard at work helping Points of Light (POL), 
the organization he founded, and the world’s largest organization
dedicated to volunteer…

The Fifth Annual Project Management Day of Service – Washington DC

The Saturday before Martin Luther King Junior’s 90th
birthday was chilly, with serious snowstorms in the forecast, but the halls of
the Project Management Center for Excellence at the University of Maryland were
abuzz with excitement. Eagerly huddled around flip charts and computers were
representatives from 24 nonprofit organizations, along with 97 project
managers. On the docket were 28 projects in various stages of implementation….

MPS Gives Back – a Year in Review

As a designated Employer of National Service, we at M Powered Strategies are committed to public service for government and nongovernmental organizations. In 2018, MPS consultants contributed more than 570 hours, and served over 41 organizations across the country through our Pro Bono Program and Employee Volunteering Program. In addition to these two programs, MPS matched employee donations to the nonprofits our consultants support through…

MPS Consultants Offer Continuing Support to Friendship Place

In 2018, MPS worked on a series of projects for Friendship Place, a nonprofit dedicated to finding housing and providing other support for people experiencing homelessness in the District of Columbia.

Over the
summer, our consultants helped them improve the program metrics of their Family
Connect program. More recently, Ben Eden, Lily Seglin and Marci Owens worked on
a project to help them cultivate new donors in the community as well as…