Contact Information

11472 Fairfield Rd. West
Suite 302
Minnetonka, MN 55305
952-595-0432
612-964-4389 (Mobile)

Mission statement
       To help mission-driven organizations create clearer visions, more effective strategies and improved organizational structures.

Vision statement
       After collaborating with Sandra Larson Consulting, organizations will improve their ability to affect mission-driven change for their customers and other stakeholders.

Value Proposition     
       Sandra Larson Consulting will only accept assignments with charitable partners whom we believe can benefit from our collaboration. In our expectations and charges we will honor the limited time and resources the organization can reasonably expect to spend on such contracts. In all matters we will, to the best of our ability, give objective and honest recommendations. We will only contract with organizations who will, in turn, give us their open and honest cooperation as well. We enter all contracts with the goal of enhancing the mission-driven results of the client organization.

Biography     
       Sandra Larson has over 35 years of experience as a leader within the public, nonprofit and private sector. Prior to establishing her own consulting business in 2002, she was employed by ADC Telecommunications, Inc. There she developed, incorporated and headed the company’s charitable foundation which was endowed by the company for 20 million dollars. As executive director, she developed 23 corporate community giving sites, 9 of which were in foreign offices of the company. Larson also served as director of corporate community relations while at ADC, creating volunteer programs, policies and a scholarship fund for employee children around the world.

       Prior to joining ADC, she directed, built and incorporated the Management Assistance Program (MAP) for Nonprofits, Inc. One of the largest management support organizations in the country, MAP provides management and technical assistance to nonprofit agencies. Larson led MAP for 14 years, during which time she designed and directed services to 2,000 nonprofits in the Twin Cities’ metropolitan area, and partnered with more than 40 leading for-profit corporations, helping their employees and retirees share their expertise as volunteer consultants or board members to nonprofit organizations.

       Larson also directed and developed the Neighborhood Involvement Program (N.I.P.), a South Minneapolis multi-service nonprofit; most notably establishing the second professionally staff Rape and Sexual Assault Center in the country and creating the state’s first privately funded legal advocacy program housed in the Hennepin County Courts. Prior to her 6 years as executive director of N.I.P, she headed the area of law enforcement planning for the State of Minnesota Crime Control Board. Earlier in her career she developed a police community relations program for the Maryland Human Rights Commission

       Larson’s community activities include serving as president of the United Way Council of Agency Executives (Minneapolis); as a founding board member and secretary of the Management MBA Program and Management Center of the University of St. Thomas and the Minnesota Council on Nonprofits; as adjunct professor at the Center for Nonprofit Management at the University of St. Thomas; as an executive committee member of the National Executive Service Corps., and as an advisory board member for the Union Institute, a national nonprofit think tank. She is currently President of the Friends of the Minneapolis Library.

       Larson has a master’s degree in social work and community planning from the University of Maryland, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Minnesota. She has run for political office and stays active in politics. Larson is also a published poet and avid stargazer.