This project has been funded by the generous support of the ADC Foundation and the Greater Twin Cities United Way.

MAP for Nonprofits

MAP unleashes the power of the nonprofit sector in the community by increasing the capacity of individual nonprofit organizations to achieve their missions and providing leadership for the effective management of the sector.

Envisioning Healthy, Vibrant Communities

We envision healthy and vibrant communities in which effective and sustainable nonprofit organizations achieve their mission-driven results.

Our Values

• Client Success. We value the success of our client organizations and their abilities to achieve remarkable community results with the right combination of mission and infrastructure.
• Integrity. We value uncompromised integrity in our work and responsible stewardship of MAP’s financial resources.
• Excellence. We value the excellence of our employees and volunteers and their abilities to respond to changes in the community with fresh ideas and agile implementation.
• Diversity. We value the wisdom and strength that results from a diverse nonprofit community.
• Leadership. We value leading the charge for healthy organizational development and lead by example as well as recommendation.

Since 1979, MAP for Nonprofits has provided quality management consulting and board recruitment services to thousands of nonprofit groups. MAP for Nonprofits primarily works with nonprofit organizations in the Greater Twin Cities Metropolitan Area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. (Please visit National Sites Links if you are outside the state of Minnesota.)

MAP's services  include accounting, board recruitment and development, legal services, mergers, technology services, strategic planning, financial services, marketing and communications planning and fundraising planning.

Most services are provided by MAP staff, but we also employ a network of reliable, experienced nonprofit management consultants, who agree to work with our clients at discounted rates. We also use management volunteers in some areas, carefully matching their skills to identified achievable roles in certain projects. With larger projects, we sometimes tap top community leaders to play specialized expert roles, serving as advisors. By using a combination of staff, consultants and volunteers, we are able to provide valued-added quality services at affordable rates.

Rick Birmingham is the Senior Technology Circuit Rider at MAP for Nonprofits. Rick has been at MAP since 1999 and has worked with clients on an delightful variety of projects, everything from planning technology budgets to try to match the mission of organizations to planning networks, databases and providing support of those systems. Rick has been the lead on the MAP TechWorks project since the idea's inception in late 2007.

Ben Hanson was born and raised in the small town of New London, which is roughly 100 miles West of the Twin Cities. He attended the University of Minnesota and, upon graduating in the spring of 2009, acquired a double major in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Studies in Cinema and Media Culture as well as a minor in Art. Ben has worked for several years in the field of video production and currently is employed as an editor and videographer by CTV, the local-access television station for the Northern Suburbs. He began working as an intern for MAP in July and is the Video Production Coordinator for MAP's new TechWorks website. Ben has collected most of the videos on the site and does the editing. Ben is looking forward to helping MAP create such a valuable resource for the nonprofit community.