Connor Associates Completes Market and Financial Research for Moorestown Friends School
Connor Associates is pleased to announce the completion of its work with Moorestown Friends School, a Preschool - Grade 12 community rooted in Quaker values and dedicated to the pursuit of educational excellence. With an incredible 238-year history, MFS serves a diverse student body within an academically rigorous and balanced program emphasizing personal, ethical, and spiritual growth. Located just 12 miles from Philadelphia, MFS is the largest independent school in southern New Jersey.
Moorestown Friends students are going places. They’re building academic skills and intellectual curiosity and becoming life-long learners. Ultimately, they matriculate to top-tier colleges, stand out in their chosen professions and fields, and live lives of consequence and courage. But first and foremost, MFS students are great kids—kind, compassionate, principled, and hard-working young people who define success on their own terms.
Moorestown Friends School welcomed its first female Head of School when MFS selected Julia de la Torre in 2018. Julia shared this observation about Connor Associates’ work:
“Connor Associates provided a wide range of services which will continue to inform many of our important strategic decisions. Their insights and findings were thorough and detailed and provided tangible recommendations for the school’s future.”
These services included an External Image Audit, Alumni and Current Family Survey, Enrollment Feasibility and Five-Year Enrollment Forecast, a Price Elasticity and Strategic Financial Plan, and a 10-year financial model conducted by Senior Strategic Partner for Finance, Operations, and Leadership Search, Thom Greenlaw.
About Moorestown Friends School
For 238 years, Moorestown Friends has been committed to weaving academic rigor with Quaker values to serve a dual purpose: offering uncommon intellectual challenges while instilling vital emotional and ethical attributes that empower our students. MFS recently launched a Strategic Plan with initiatives in four distinct areas:
Inclusive Community
Environmental Stewardship
Global Engagement
Teaching & Learning
With these initiatives, Moorestown Friends School is demonstrating once again how its mission meets the market, and prepares its students for their next level of success. Connor Associates has been gratified to work with such a values-driven institution.
Mike Connor is Founder and President of Connor Associates, a communication, marketing, enrollment management, and fundraising advocate for public and private schools and nonprofit organizations.
With 16 Strategic Partners and Research Associates across the United States, Connor has worked with hundreds of clients spanning 4 continents and 26 states since 1998.
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Connor Associates stakes its value on its experience with providing comprehensive services, including ensuring proof of ROI through Image Audits (reputational asset and risk management), Alumni and Alumni Parent Surveys, Enrollment Feasibility Studies which identify qualified appropriate prospects at rooftop level, Five-Year Enrollment Forecasts, Location Studies, Business Office Evaluations and Plans (pricing sensitivity, tuition elasticity and analysis, benchmarking, reliable revenue streams, and capital management), Strategic Marketing Plans based on research, and onsite training and coaching to get everyone in your school and your trustees supporting enrollment, retention, and philanthropy. Our recent offering, Administrative Leadership Search, is a very creative, fast, and effective approach to finding, training, and keeping the best people on your leadership team — and it’s a surprisingly different approach and a better value than you may get from job boards or other search firms. Find out more about Leadership Search and other new services such as Compensation and Benefits Studies, Strategic Financial Planning, and Ten-Year Financial Modeling here.