Act with Purpose

Every day you are forced to balance immediate needs with long-term vision. ABD helps you create a strategic path that adapts to change without sacrificing your ultimate goals.

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Build Coalitions

In today’s strained economic and political climate, social change agents can’t go it alone. ABD Ventures’ model for long-term strategic coalitions provides building blocks for a coordinated commitment to change.

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Develop a Team

There are never enough hands on deck. From designing curriculum to direct training, ABD Ventures helps senior management and board leadership build teams that maximize effectiveness.

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Adapt to Change

Your organization faces a crisis or turning point.  ABD helps create a turn-around plan that sets you on the right path to getting past the challenges and finding a brighter future .

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Build Capacity

From finding effective tools for advocacy programs to building field and grassroots operations, ABD Ventures can help you strengthen the key components of your operation that add up to success.

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Develop Resources

You need resources for individual programs and long-term operations. ABD Ventures can create development plans to leverage a donor’s attraction to your program and need to grow.

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BUILDING EFFECTIVE SOCIAL CHANGE ORGANIZATIONS

The Mission of ABD Ventures

Whether working as individuals, institutions or as a coalition, ABD Ventures helps social change agents envision the future and develop the tools and strategies for getting there.
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The increasingly dire need for effective organizations to address social problems is complicated by an ever-tightening economy. Limited resources make creativity and innovation even more essential for achieving results.
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Social change agents looking to build their advocacy, organizing and political capacity can turn to ABD Ventures. We can provide the vision, strategies and tools to create a more effective internal operation and to form robust external partnerships through coalition-building that delivers long-term results.
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ABD can work collaboratively with a wide range of non-profit, political and labor organizations to dramatically improve their ability to think strategically and act effectively as individuals and in concert with partners to achieve their missions.

 

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