Episode 46: Alan Spector

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Organizations Al’s working with - Mission Met, City Surf Projects, Secure Beginnings, Bay Area Outreach Recreation Program and BlindSail San Francisco Bay

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“It's that vision that's really the difficult thing and it's challenging in the environment that we're in”

In this episode, we feature the voice of Al Spector, an advisor to non-profit and mission-driven organizations. Given the financial struggles of both our nonprofits and small business organizations we wanted to feature Al and ask him to share both his expertise and best practices to hopefully help folks through the process of securing funding through the various funding opportunities.

Alan Spector

Al Spector is an advisor to nonprofit organizations and small businesses. He has served the nonprofit/social impact community in various roles: as an organization co-founder, as staff, as a volunteer, and as a director on several nonprofit boards. Before co-founding and operating a nonprofit to support Bay Area blind and vision-impaired sailors, Al held posts inside several manufacturing, distribution, and technology companies.

Here are the organizations that Al is working with that were mentioned in his interview Mission Met (Practical strategic planning for small nonprofits and foundations), City Surf Project (Equitable access for youth to ocean recreation), Secure Beginnings (Nurturing healthy relationships for children and families), Bay area Outreach Recreation Program (Adaptive recreation and sports programming)

Engage with Al’s Wisdom

To engage with Al please follow up with him through LinkedIn LinkedIn URL: linkedin.com/in/alanjspector

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To find out more about how Al became a sailing coach to blind and vision impaired sailors:

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“The ones, that did the best were innovative, and were able to adapt to the situation. They protected their mission. They adjusted their programming. They put in an extra, effort for some fundraising really, really worked hard, and protected their staffs best they could”

— Alan J Spector, Advisory services, interim management

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