Gary Dembs has spent nearly 30 years working in non-profits, helping them fundraise, creating marketing plans, and finding executive talent. Now he is trying to innovate in the space with a new company,
4th Sector Consulting.
The Southfield-based company company specializes in helping connect non-profits with businesses and governments to better maximize their impact. The 1-year-old company and its two employees are working to hit that trifecta of community improvement.
"It's a coming together of the non-profit, corporations and the government to create the fourth sector," Dembs says. "It's working for community solutions across sectors."
Metro Detroit, with an active non-profit and business community working to improve the region, is prime for that sort of collaboration, such as the Detroit Blight Authority's work or local corporate leaders banding together to purchase new first-responder vehicles.
4th Sector Consulting is currently working with a local health-insurance company on where best to give its charitable dollars. The idea is to maximize their impact by carefully thinking about where they are going.
"Is it the right strategy?" Dembs says. "Does it help them build their business?"
Source: Gary Dembs, CEO of 4th Sector Consulting
Writer: Jon Zemke
Read more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.
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