Helping You Help Others was founded to solve problems very unique to the nonprofit world.
- How is it possible that as you go about the business of saving the world, you also struggle with crappy furniture and outdated technology?
- How do we feed the hungry when our own organizations are “hungry?”
- How is it we need budget cuts but at the same time are struggling to “expense” things out?
- How does staff communicate how much they appreciate the Board but at the same time request space to do their jobs and;
- How does the Board of Directors support the organization when staff appear unreceptive at best?
- If our mission is focused on solving a great external problem, why do we spend so much time and energy on internal conflict?
We are focused on solving these problems.
This allows you to focus on what really matters:
Your Mission.
We help you focus on and improve three very specific issues:
- Your Money: raising it, allocating it, justifying to funders how you spend it and asking for more. Lots of time and money may be wasted in an effort to make more of it.
- Your Board of Directors: A nonprofit's potentially best asset or crippling problem. A Board that is not fully engaged is costing your organization money. If you’re a board member and the organization is sputtering, it’s wasting your time.
- Your Brand: How do you market your organization? What is the purpose of your marketing? Do you know if your marketing achieves its purpose? Your image communicates what you’re about. Is this information conducive to your mission?
Being lazer-focused on these three items allows us to provide world class support in our area of expertise.
Our Founder
Diego began his journey… wait, I’m Diego. Do I still need to write this in the third-person?
Let’s restart:
Hello! I’m Diego and I started Helping You Help Others, LLC out a deep desire to (you guessed it)…help you help others. My journey in the nonprofit world, specifically in fundraising, started back when I was a sophomore in college. I worked for my university’s “Alumni Outreach Program” AKA: cold-call alumni and ask them for money.
It was a difficult position and I only took the job because of the flexible hours. During the job interview I was told, "you will potentially get yelled at, you might get cursed at and you will definitely get hung-up on at least once per 3 hour shift.” Sounds great, sign me up (broke college students will do almost anything)!
But something interesting happened, I really liked the job. Not for all the rejection but I learned if you were able to really connect with someone, they were more than happy to donate to your mission. I enjoyed doing something to benefit a greater cause . I also learned that fundraising involved a very specific set of skills. Simply explaining your cause was unfortunately, just not enough to get people to donate or get involved.
Fast forward ten years. I’m now working as a director for one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in California. The budgets are bigger, the stakes are higher, the problems are all-encompasing. We have multiple stake owners and I have to balance the day-to-day operations with fulfilling our mission.
After six great years there, I felt it was time for something different. I resigned, traveled the world with my beautiful family and started this company. I knew I could contribute on a larger scale to help those who have committed their lives to the service of others.
From all these experiences Helping You Help Others was born.
Today, I run the day-to-day operations of the Company. I’m passionate about the nonprofit sector. I’m passionate about supporting you. I’m passionate about making a difference.
If you’ve read this far, I believe you are as well.
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