Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Try a consultant with no guardrails. Given my tenure in the corporate and nonprofit worlds, I believe I can serve as the bellwether for predicting healthy management practices and diagnosing toxic ones. Little did I know that a consultant was overseeing the celebratory event and saw it as “her baby.” It’s like a sixth sense.

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Grant Professionals Association

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Grant consultants are part of a profession that blends grant development alongside entrepreneurship. In this article, Ill reflect on three conferences I attended in 2024 (apart from GrantSummit ) and offer several takeaways that aim to help grant consultants thrive. How do you want to develop yourself as a grant consultant in 2025?

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Allied Grant Writers

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Grant Writing Consultants: Your Key to Funding Success The Role of Grant Writing Consultants Grant writing consultants are crucial in helping individuals and organizations secure funding. Time-Saving By delegating the writing process, organizations can focus on their core activities while consultants handle grant applications.

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Clairification

JUNE 20, 2024

I’m sure some will hate me for saying this, but after 30+ years in the nonprofit trenches and another 10+ as a coach and consultant, I’m still amazed at how small many of us think. I’m going to guess “yes.” In 2008 during the big recession, and 2020 during the pandemic, all I heard was cut, cut, cut.

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RBW Strategy

JUNE 24, 2024

Challenge In 2022, the company had contacted RBW Strategy as they received several federal awards and would benefit from institutional background in managing and maintaining compliance. Outcome RBW Strategy worked with the company to navigate the administrative challenges and maintain grant compliance after the company’s IPO.

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RBW Strategy

JUNE 3, 2024

Challenge In 2022, the company had contacted RBW Strategy as they received several federal awards and would benefit from institutional background in managing and maintaining compliance. Outcome RBW Strategy worked with the company to navigate the administrative challenges and maintain grant compliance after the company’s IPO.

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Grant Professionals Association

JANUARY 17, 2025

Maximizing a consultants impact requires establishing a relationship that fits your teams needs. Get your consultant and teamand your board!on-board The One-and-Done Consultant best serves teams with a clear vision. This consultant is your go-to person beyond your team. Weigh costs against the projects value.

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Fundraising HayDay

MARCH 21, 2024

Hear key takeaways from each of our esteemed guests: Bernard Turner , GPC, Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Belmont University Cheryl Kester , CFRE, GPC, 2023 Distinguished Fellow Awardee and Owner of The Kester Group Doris Shivers , GPC, Director of Grant Innovation and Management for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Egondu Onuoha (..)

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Joe Garecht Fundraising

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Are you an executive director, development director, program manager, board member, consultant, or other type of leader in your organization? Are you a non-profit leader? If not, do you want to be a leader at your non-profit?

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

JANUARY 27, 2025

Plus, Lodi Community Foundation lands $30 million bequest, and the Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation gets millions from a New York management consultant. By Maria Di Mento Northfield Mount Hermon The campus of Northfield Mount Hermon, a boarding school in Gill, Mass.,

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Tony Martignetti

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Rubin is CEO of One Tenth Consulting. Rubin is CEO of One Tenth Consulting. Marc Pitman: What To Ask Before … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for October 30, 2023: CRM Selection & What To Ask Before Your New Website → Rubin Singh: CRM Selection Rubin Singh returns to help you focus on what matters in CRM selection.

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Soapbox Exchange

DECEMBER 7, 2024

With all the moving parts involved in planning, launching, and managing successful fundraising campaigns, new nonprofit leaders can easily get overwhelmed. If youre ready to scale your organizations fundraising but feel underequipped or unsure where to start, hiring a consultant could be the right next move.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

With the help of your donor management software and text fundraising platform, track and use these data insights to inform how you frame your donation requests. Mike started his nonprofit career managing the Ride For Roswell from 2003 to 2005 in his hometown of Buffalo, NY.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 30, 2024

Grant seeking, proposal development, and post-award management can fill some professionals with dread. Share your knowledge around grant seeking, writing, and management with those who are unfamiliar, inexperienced, or need clarity around any part of the process. Please Do: Educate others. Create openness. Communicate.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Across all areas of your work, including internal management processes, donor stewardship, and campaign planning, you can drive greater impact by preserving your time and prioritizing your work. Chelsey Newmyer is a Senior Consultant at Graham-Pelton. Instead, look for ways to do more with what you already have.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Note from Diane: You know how passionate our team is about thinking about your grant management work (your post-award work) to help strengthen your grant applications (your pre-award) work. Thats why were thrilled to bring these tactical tips to you from Jitasa to help broaden your understanding of grant management.

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Blackbaud

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As the senior manager of digital and data at the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation , Im always looking for new ways to eliminate friction between our organizations mission to prevent osteoporosis and my teams ability to realize it. In the past five years, we have exceeded expectations. Could you have more accurate data fields?

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 31, 2023

They spend money on fundraising and overhead activities to secure individual donations, increase marketing, host fundraising events, and submit and manage grants. Yet these same foundations require hoop after hoop for nonprofits to jump through during the grant management process. An accounting of every penny is necessary.

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Gail Perry Group

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Written by Gina Vaughn, Managing Consultant at Gail Perry Group. Gina Vaughn is Managing Consultant at Gail Perry Group. In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), which significantly altered the U.S. She is committed to helping mission-driven organizations achieve their full potential.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 25, 2023

Kinetic, a global fundraising consulting company headquartered in Kansas City, MO, is partnering with the UMKC Henry W. Bloch School of Management to host its third virtual Power of Philanthropy Summit.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 13, 2023

It is the goal of DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services to assist nonprofit organizations with competitively researching, applying, and receiving grant funding to best serve our clients and have a significant impact in their communities, taking the stress out of grant writing. .

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GrantNews

JULY 19, 2024

By staying informed and seeking professional guidance when needed, you can effectively manage your finances and make the most of grant opportunities without running into unexpected tax issues. Understanding how grants impact your taxes is crucial to managing finances effectively and avoiding unexpected tax issues.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 13, 2024

Nonprofits face continual financial pressures around revenue streams, with 57% of financial managers saying they need somewhat or much more stable cash flow, and nearly 7 in 10 sharing that they need more revenue streams today than they did two years ago. Nonprofit employees spend, on average, 30% of their day managing data between systems.

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Blackbaud

AUGUST 28, 2024

Digital Pipeline Management: Harnessing Analytics and Automation for Mid-Level Donor Cultivation In this practical session with Paul St. Blackbaud Consultant Lauren Enlow helps frontline fundraisers bridge the gap when it comes to portfolio review. Learn more. Learn more.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

That being said, each organization has a different staff structure related to grant writing and grant management/reporting activities. How does your organization keep the discussion about grant reporting/management present throughout all phases of the grant life cycle? Check out our Grant Writing Basics on-demand webinar today.

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 24, 2024

On Tuesday, February 13th at 2PM ET, join Brian Walker, Sales Director, Euna Solutions & Andrew Horrow, CPA, Senior Managing Consultant, Forvis as they explore transformative practices that can revolutionize the way your nonprofit approaches budgeting. Register Today!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 14, 2022

My buddy Lisa works for Westcare, which offers programs across the continuum of health and human services, programs that treat substance use, manage mental health disorders, and help those dealing with HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, and homelessness. We match the right funding programs to our organization’s programming. Then we do it again.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Can you hire a grant consultant? So maybe you are thinking a grant writer could complete grant work while also serving as an event planner, a database manager or work in HR. The person you hired to be a grant writer is then not truly able to be an amazing grant writer, an amazing database manager, or an amazing event planner.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 14, 2023

And I had to report that to the city manager and police chief. Thankfully, my city manager understood that no one is perfect, and mistakes happen. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 6 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such.

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Instrumentl

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Explore how Instrumentl, the top grant management platform, can transform your nonprofit’s grant-seeking efforts. This article highlights its benefits, features, and how it streamlines finding, securing grants, ensuring compliance, and enhancing teamwork for greater efficiency.

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RBW Strategy

MAY 14, 2024

Through this process, the AAMC has expanded its engagement with RBW Strategy to provide consultative services to an expanded grant-active team of AAMC colleagues to operationalize this nuanced shift in focus while navigating a broader organizational change. This includes contributions on larger federal grant applications that were awarded.

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RBW Strategy

JUNE 3, 2024

Due to the firm’s knowledge of federal grant compliance, Maryland Nonprofits requested our team to train county-level agencies and nonprofit organizations on federal grant compliance and management, which was well received.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Yes, I have worked as a solo grant professional within a larger organization and as a lone grant consultant, working from home with no official colleagues to speak of. The post The Power of Relationships for the Lonely Grant Writer appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. Together we are brilliant.”

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RBW Strategy

MAY 13, 2024

The organization does this by increasing the amount of capacity building, grant services, and data/engagement/policy services provided with a curated pool of consultants who support nonprofit organizations throughout Nevada. RBW Strategy has partnered with Nevada GrantLab (NGL) since 2021 on several large-scale federal grant projects.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Food banks can operate on a large scale that requires expensive equipment and skilled management. How much of their budget is appropriate to spend on new equipment, skilled managers and everything else required for an organization to thrive and endure? But there are some signs that this loop might be breaking.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Whether you’re a grant writer, fundraiser, development director, or consultant who works with them, you can play an essential role in helping prepare a nonprofit to accept unexpected, larger donations and build sustainability for the communities served. Bequests can take many different forms.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Managing federal grants was my jam – I loved putting my organizational skills to work and totally geeked out about a well-put-together 3-ring binder. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 6 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such. Don’t get me wrong. What is yours?

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