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Helping you to locate and secure funding by:

Identifing funders most likely to help you

Improving your fundraising strategies

Creating great applications

Building organizational capacity for future development success

I am committed to
helping those organizations working to make a contribution to the world. My goal is to help good people get the money they need to continue working for their causes.

In these especially difficult funding times, with resources being tight and competition increasing, my experience and expertise may be able to help you be more successful at fundraising.

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR WAYS TO:

• Increase the stability of your funding?
• Understand more clearly what motivates funders?
• Broaden your funding sources?
• Make better use of your scarce time and energy
• Get beyond the "this year/next year" framework?
• Reduce the stress, confusion and anxiety of funding?

QUESTIONS I CAN HELP YOU ANSWER:

• What do various potential donors want and not want from applicants?
• Where should we look for funding?
• How can donor research be most effective and efficient?
• What would a comprehensive, multiyear funding proposal look like?
• What are the most effective techniques for increasing the likelihood of funders to respond favorably to our requests?
• How do we make excellent decisions about endowment and reserve funds?
• How can we most effectively develop a strategic funding plan and connect that plan with specific implementation steps?
• How can we make our fund raising congruent with our mission?

SERVICES AVAILABLE:

• Facilitating strategic development planning
• Training in fund-raising
• Reviewing and editing grant applications
• Developing case statements
• Coaching development staff and volunteers
• Creating organizational, multi-year proposals
• Reviewing and evaluating current funding assumptions, plans and practices