Our Approach
Truman LaCombe LLC allows our clients to focus on what they do best: social entrepreneurship. Let us handle your marketing, development, government relations, and related services to let you concentrate on your core mission.
What Can We Do?
Fundraising and Marketing: We’ll match our expertise to your voice; together, we’ll create winning proposals and materials that bring resources to your work. Truman LaCombe LLC has experience handling grants and appropriations work for a United States Senator, a large community development support organization, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) certified fund, and managing membership for a non-profit. You name it, we’ve done it.
Making the Most of Available Technology: We can help you target your website so it better serves your market, utilize social networking tools like Twitter and Facebook to connect with your clients and create an online presence that serves your business and mission.
Writing: Let Truman LaCombe LLC create op-eds, press releases, or pitch your story to targeted media.
Political Guidance: With ten years of government relations experience at the state and federal levels, Truman LaCombe LLC combines old-fashioned political organizing with the latest strategies and technology. Our innovative products helped a national trade association map their political footprint and target their advocacy work.
Short Term Management and Staffing: Experienced in working with government, national community development intermediaries, successful social entrepreneurs and micro-lending organizations, Truman LaCombe LLC offers short to medium term management solutions for entities in transition.
Staffing Replacement: During tough times, social entrepreneurs are more needed than ever. But hiring full time staff often doesn’t work with limited budgets. Truman Lacombe LLC can provide services often supplied by full time staffers—at a fraction of the yearly cost!
Greening: Let Truman LaCombe LLC show you how to make sustainable and green practices impact your bottom line–for the better. Truman LaCombe LLC brings greening strategies from a policy and grassroots angle combined with internal business practices that put into action what we teach.
What if We Cannot Do It? Truman LaCombe LLC has access to a network of collaborators with every needed skillset required for our clients. If we cannot do it, chances are we have a colleague who can.
EXAMPLE: How Truman LaCombe LLC Works!
EXAMPLE
1. The Springdale Citizens Chamber Empowerment Corporation finds a grant opportunity PERFECT for their mission. The problem: No one on staff has the capacity to write the grant.
2. The Executive Director contacts Truman LaCombe.
3. Truman LaCombe writes a successful grant, securing $200,000 to improve the lives of citizens in Springdale. In addition to writing a perfect proposal, Truman LaCombe helped the Springdale Citizens Association secure local and national political support for the grant application. Their grant-writing was just the beginning of the relationship.
4. Pleased with Truman LaCombe’s services, the Springdale Citizens Associations hired Truman LaCombe for the following services:
• Redesign of the organization’s website
• Political “coaching” to help the organization develop a comprehensive federal, state and local government relations plan
• Design a $800,000 fundraising campaign
• Produce ongoing online updates to donors, public officials and friends of the organization
RESULT: Capacity for Social Entrepreneurs
Constituencies We Serve: community development corporations (CDCs); educational entities; not for profit hospitals, international community development organizations; small businesses; social service agencies; local governments; sports teams; local agricultural producers and farmers markets; water and sewer districts; local law enforcement agencies, tribal entities; development intermediaries; and your organization or business.