Lakeshore Non-profit Alliance

Executive Director Kory Plockmeyer provided an overview of the organization, which has 210 non-profit members in greater Ottawa County. The organization started in 2006 to strengthen the non-profit organizations. They work on three areas.

• Healthy Leadership - Transitions in leadership are costly in many ways. Healthy leaders stay longer and develop better leaders within an organization. The Alliance has a 3-year leadership development program for executive directors. They also offer training for board members of non-profits.
• Operational Excellence - working with organizations to train in best practices.
• Collaborative impact - Connecting organizations to increase their impact.

The Alliance performs a non-profit community assessment every 3 years. The next one will be released in February of next year. One of the interesting statistics is that volunteers contribute $12 million in services per month.