DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 18, 2024

Unemployed with a graduate degree in sports biomechanics (next time we meet, ask me anything about running or running shoes), I answered a tiny little ad in the newspaper that said “Fundraiser Wanted – Fax Resume (715)867-5309.” No company name or what they meant by fundraiser. Full speed, nonstop, 30+ fundraising events a year.

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Grant Central USA

JULY 20, 2023

Most certifications require an online or in-person course that covers topics such as proposal writing, fundraising principles, project management, and budgeting. With this certification, you can also take advantage of professional opportunities such as speaking engagements and networking events.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 30, 2022

I get more questions about budgets and nonprofit financial information than any other component of grant writing. You can also save news clippings about relevant events to a file. You can have some talking points prepared, but let the conversation proceed organically from there. #5: 5: Keep your finances in order.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 25, 2022

I always say that small nonprofit leaders should spend 50% of their time fundraising and grantseeking. Do you rely too much on individual donations or fundraising events (that are often expensive to put one)? #2: I can’t tell you what the plan is because it should be highly specific to your organization.

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Grant Central USA

AUGUST 24, 2023

Be Specific and Realistic in Budgeting: A detailed and well-structured budget is essential for demonstrating transparency and accountability. Budget : Provide a detailed budget that outlines how grant funds will be used. Unrealistic Budget : An unrealistic or poorly detailed budget can raise red flags for funders.

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Grant Central USA

AUGUST 24, 2023

Be Specific and Realistic in Budgeting: A detailed and well-structured budget is essential for demonstrating transparency and accountability. Budget : Provide a detailed budget that outlines how grant funds will be used. Unrealistic Budget : An unrealistic or poorly detailed budget can raise red flags for funders.

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Grant Central USA

MAY 24, 2023

You will also have access to extensive course resources on budgeting, legal and ethical issues, and grant proposal assessment. Additionally, you will discover how to create a grant proposal and budget, as well as the grant writing procedure. Make your grant application stand out with these materials. Practice what you learn.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

What this should mean is that schools should get additional funding, from the local government separate from the school system, or the school system's budget should include support, for these functions. Arts Festival and fundraiser, Uintah Elementary School, Salt Lake City. Special Funding. It dates to the 1980s. but it fell off.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 24, 2024

So a park or park system plan, to be comprehensive should be a combination of a cultural landscape plan, a regular park design and program plan, a capital improvements plan, an organization and management plan, a branding and marketing plan if the park is signature, a programming plan, and a fundraising plan.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

It turns out over 80% of the park's budget is spent on utilities including "culinary water." Tree planting a, s a city equity measure is an important priority of the Salt Lake Mayor. Should we have more water stations?

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

Introduction The high level of closing costs has been placed onto housing policy’s front burner by two recent events. Four recent events indicate that the decades-long blocking of reforms to re-establish full price competition in housing and mortgage markets may no longer work quite so well going forward.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

I believe in conferences can be great training events. Park People of Canada does local events and a national conference. But a series of programs/training events doesn't have to rise to the level of a conference. (The They started this as a budget measure in the 1970s (now Harford County, Maryland does something similar too).

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Effective grant management goes beyond tracking funds in your CRM its also about budgeting effectively, prioritizing programs that need financial support, and delivering timely reports to grantmakers. Many grantmakers request a proposed budget along with grant applications to show youre thinking about these goals from the start.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

To optimize for SSS’s budget and modest data volume, we’ve developed a custom AWS Lambda image capable of running Apache Spark within the runtime. Upon the file’s arrival in the S3 bucket, a Lambda function is triggered by the Amazon S3 event notification, which initiates an AWS Step Functions workflow to begin processing the uploaded data.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York City Lack of budget. A big problem is that park departments have budgets that are inadequate to meet the demand for services, so programming tends to be an after thought, maybe funded by special grants, or offered in association with other agencies to share the cost, but mostly doesn't exist.

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