DO YOU CUIDIU?

Most everyone in the world gives some "Cuidiu". Whether it is a simple act of offering a hand to a teammate or watching out for your next door neighbor. If you are providing caring support, you are providing Cuidiu.

Cuidiu Consulting is also aimed at providing caring support to those organizations that provide caring support within their communities. From providing simple organizational guidance to intensive organizational support and development,  Cuidiu Consulting's mission is to support those on the front line.

Cuidiu Consulting has provided services to a wide variety of organizations, including non-profit start-ups with one volunteer staff member to large government and non-profit agencies with multi-million dollar budgets and hundreds of staff.

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CUIDIU AFFILIATIONS

John Brothers is proud to be a member of the following organizations:

    Association for Fundraising Professionals
    American Society of Association Executives
    Alliance for Non-Profit Management,
    Board Source
    International Association of Law and Policy
    Governance Matters
    Turnaround Management Association
    American Association of Grant Professionals
    Organizational Development Network
    Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
    Association of Consultants to Nonprofits
    American Society for Public Administration
    American Management Association - Nonprofit Division
    Independent Sector
    National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
    National Council of Nonprofits
    Internal Revenue Service - Exempt Organizations Academic Institutions Initiative
    Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy

      ABOUT JOHN BROTHERS

      John Brothers is a recognized leader in the nonprofit arena with nearly twenty years of sector experience and is a national expert in the field of executive transition management, nonprofit effectiveness and sustainability and assisting organizations in organizational crisis and turnarounds. Mr. Brothers gravitated toward non-profit work as a result of his experiences growing up in poverty and homelessness as a child in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

      Mr. Brothers is working toward a Doctorate in Law and Policy from Northeastern University in Boston, has an MPA in Nonprofit and Public Management from New York University and an MBA in Public Policy from American Public University from which he started at Columbia University.  He has taken additional studies at Georgetown and Harvard University. He is an adjunct professor in Nonprofit Finance at NYU's Wagner School for Public Service, has taught Community Studies at George Mason University.  Mr. Brothers has served in fellowships with the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs and the Children's Defense Fund.   Mr. Brothers is also a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE).

      In addition, Mr. Brothers is a Senior Fellow in executive leadership with the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, for which he also is the Editor of the Journal for Nonprofit Management.  He also is the Principal of Cuidiu Consulting, a consulting firm servicing the nonprofit and government agencies in the New York area and throughout the U.S.  Cuidiu Consulting has been contracted by over a hundred organizations throughout the United States and John has trained and spoken to thousands in all areas of capacity building and organizational development.    

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      OVER 20 YEARS IN THE FIELD

      2010 marked John's 22nd year working in the public sector. John and Cuidiu have had many experiences since he started working in youth development in Minneapolis during high school.

      Click here to read about the first 20 years.


      PARTNER CONSULTANTS  & STAFF

      Cuidiu pools together the best and brightest as Partner Consultants to help nonprofits meet their challenges and sustain long term changes. Our Partner Consultants have a unique breadth and depth of experience and still enjoy a long future of serving the sector.

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      CUIDIU CLIENTS

      Over the last 10 years, John Brothers has served a variety of clients including:

      Partnerships for After School Education
      State of New Jersey
      State of Louisiana
      One Acre Fund
      Posse Foundation
      Iowa Department of Education
      East Baltimore Development, Inc.
      Education Development Center
      Bright Horizons
      The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
      Foundations, Inc.
      University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute: Center for Human Relations and Social Justice
      Do Something
      District of Columbia Public Schools
      City Kids Foundation
      Children's Aid Society
      Project Reach Youth

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