AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to a recent report from the Association of Fundraising Professionals and GivingTuesday, the number of nonprofit donors in the first half of 2022 decreased by 7% compared to last year. To help nonprofits use the cloud to build innovative fundraising and member engagement solutions, we are launching a new program – AWS TechAction.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

AUGUST 18, 2023

My Fundraising HayDay podcast co-host and dear friend Amanda Day experienced a new way of looking at things during a recent vacation. More importantly, it’s sound planning and program development. A friend noticed her discomfort and lent her reading glasses—literally changing how Amanda saw everything!

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 14, 2022

We develop proposals that demonstrate what is going on and how we can help, usually within a minimal character count within an online portal that was not meant for grant applications. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 5 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such.

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A Library Writer's Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

The Journal of Advancement, Communication, and Development in Academic Libraries (open access journal) publishes articles that offer strategies and case studies for practical application of strategic fundraising and communication in academic libraries. This journal will be published twice annually, fall and spring.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Part 1 of this two-part blog post series, Unlock third-party data with API driven data pipelines on AWS , outlined considerations for developing API pipelines on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to extract data from third-party SaaS tools with APIs. The fundraising and membership platform SaaS host open APIs.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 9, 2023

Honestly, it’s how I always pick what webinars and other professional development activities I attend. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 6 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such. And then, I’ll proceed to share names of classic “can’t miss” individuals.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

The following are some examples of the innovations nonprofits have developed with support from this program: Amplifying citizen advocacy across Africa ONE is a global movement to end extreme poverty and preventable disease by 2030. To help reach audiences across Africa, ONE launched a mobile chatbot built on AWS. Read more about ONE.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 10, 2022

Either/or thinking has stopped or slowed some major career choices such as employee vs. consultant, grants vs. fundraising, grant writing vs. coaching or training. It’s one of the reasons that I said yes to the brilliant and talented Amanda Day when she asked me if I wanted to co-host the Fundraising HayDay podcast back in 2017.

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Super Library Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

International Public Library Fundraising Conference In-person event, June 9-11, 2024, in Washington, DC Price: $372.60 This conference is for anyone assigned to marketing for fundraising at a library.

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A Library Writer's Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Florida Gulf Coast University and the Southwest Florida Library Network are proud to be hosting the 2023 Academic Library Advancement and Development Network (ALADN) Conference in beautiful and resilient Bonita Springs, FL. We invite you to visit our community as we rebuild from Hurricane Ian.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 27, 2022

But right now, I’m in the middle of developing three federal proposals, managing 15 open grants, writing my organization’s newsletter from cover to cover, and answering the phones a few hours a day while our department’s admin assistant is on vacation this week. And that’s from the polite Fundraising HayDay cohost. It’s smart.

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Grant Training Center

MARCH 9, 2020

The key to maintaining a successful nonprofit organization is to have a diverse fundraising strategy that builds upon your organization’s core strengths and resources. Likewise, a solid market analysis is essential in developing a diversified and successful fundraising strategy. Current assessment of potential donors.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Over more than 25 years of researching, prioritizing, writing, developing objectives, creating evaluation plans, and tangling with logic models, I never spent much time measuring a crucial aspect of work that affects all those tasks and more—my happiness. Considering a monumental change in my consulting business model, I was ready to learn.

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Grants4Good

AUGUST 25, 2023

To make it easy for you, here are 5 prompts that you can use to save time and effort in your organization’s fundraising and grant writing work right now. Prompt #4: SMART Goals SMART goals can guide you in any aspect of your life: Grant Writing, Fundraising Plans, Life Goals, Vacation Planning, etc.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 24, 2022

Find professional development opportunities for you to learn about the grant profession and best practices. Might I suggest the Grant Professionals Association Annual Conference (or any of their many training opportunities), DH Leonard Consulting’s Grant Writing Trainings , MyFedTrainer’s many offerings , and the Fundraising HayDay Podcast.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 26, 2023

During a weekly meeting early on in my seven years there, my supervisor, the director of development, told me we had the same idea about winning grant applications. She even included a video demonstration on the Fundraising HayDay YouTube Channel on using Canva, which has a free version, to edit a Zoom-recorded video: [link].

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Developing a grant strategy involves identifying the funders and funding opportunities you intend to pursue over a certain period of time (usually a 12-month period, although it could be longer). Why Develop a Grant Strategy? You may wonder why you should bother developing a grant strategy. Absolutely not.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

After more than 28 years in grants and fundraising, I have found that about 20% of grant writing is actual writing. Grant Guru and all-around Georgia Peach DeaRonda Harrison said it best in the latest episode of the Fundraising HayDay podcast: [link] know-your-worth /. Either way, those writing skills drew you in.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

APRIL 28, 2023

If you are a grant writer, consultant fundraiser, executive director, or board member who doesn’t live or work in the areas your agency serves or doesn’t share cultural or other socio-economic factors with people affected by your work, don’t smother “the other,” in statistics and data that exclude their voices and solutions. What’s missing?

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 3, 2023

I quickly learned about the power of relationships, particularly when building programs and developing grant proposals. To get the details of how to best lean into working with elected officials, check out the latest episode of Fundraising HayDay. For more details about local government grant seeking, check out this blog post.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 7, 2023

Together, we navigated the choppy seas of registration through login.gov, sam.gov, and grants.gov for the executive director (ED) and the chief development officer. Unfortunately, EDs, development directors, consultants, and entrepreneurs can feel enormous pressure to go for the next big thing and the next and the next.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2020

In fact, we’re going to begin with tips for working remotely, because if you can’t collaborate online, you won’t be able to prepare a grant application or launch a successful fundraising or crowdfunding campaign. FindTime for Outlook: FindTime is a meeting scheduling tool developed by a group of developers at Microsoft.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 6, 2023

Do we already have a program developed, along with an accompanying budget? To learn more about the art of not chasing the grant money, listen to our latest episode of the Fundraising HayDay podcast. Are we competitive, meaning do we check all the boxes in the Request for Proposal? If yes, then…. Do we have a need that meets the grant?

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Google Public Sector

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The recognition: This year, the GSV Cup is recognizing and celebrating 50 trailblazing companies poised to revolutionize education and workforce development for years to come. Being a finalist has helped startups accelerate fundraising, facilitate partnerships, and even drive customer acquisition!

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Grant Central USA

JULY 20, 2023

With a grant writing certification, you can demonstrate your skills and knowledge of the process advanced grant development, as well as your dedication to furthering the mission of your organization. Many organizations list volunteer opportunities related to their grant development and writing where you can get firsthand experience.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JULY 26, 2024

Your CRM platform can act as a database to store information about grantors, allowing you to develop deeper relationships by building on past interactions. Use your CRM to monitor the following relational aspects of grant fundraising: Interaction timelines. Are you making the most of this tool to support your grant tracking?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As you recruit your new board of directors, you can set expectations for board contributions and fundraising. One prime avenue for nonprofit start-up funding is individual donations. And, as you grow your presence in your community, in-person and online, remember to be on the lookout for potential donors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

They range from architectural guidance to ready-to-deploy solutions, and also include offerings developed by AWS Partners. One solution, Genomics Secondary Analysis using AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch creates a scalable environment to develop, build, deploy, and run pipelines for processing genome sequences.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

If you have already hired an evaluator or evaluation firm, lean on them to develop this proposal section. And if you want more details on evaluations, check out the latest Fundraising HayDay podcast: How To: Evaluation | Fundraising HayDay (podbean.com). Sometimes, a funder will dictate what they want you to evaluate.

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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. For the other use case, we use Fivetran to ingest data from external sources (clinical, marketing, and fundraising data). It also includes manual approval for production deployment.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

Unless the proposal requires a very simple budget that must be embedded into the narrative as a small table, it works best to develop the budget in Excel or a similar spreadsheet tool, such as Google Sheets. Either way, a poorly developed budget affects the project’s implementation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software used by nonprofits to communicate with donors and drive fundraising programs. Cloud-based CRM tools are routinely used to collect, analyze, and leverage data that can help accelerate fundraising.

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Public Policy Blog

JULY 23, 2013

Many nonprofits use their brands primarily as a fundraising tool, but a growing number of nonprofits are developing a broader and more strategic approach, managing their brands to create greater social impact and tighter organizational cohesion ( Kylander & Stone, 2012 ) attempting to act as catalysts of change in the world.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I decided to develop and deploy the SibsForever application on AWS for two main reasons. Unifying data to boost nonprofit fundraising outcomes. Every shared picture, post, and video can be commented on, which is another way to keep memories active and fresh. Building a low-cost application with the support of AWS.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Federal departmental websites (like the Department of Justice , Department of Education , Health and Human Services , and Housing and Urban Development , to name a few), plus many sub-agencies (like the Centers for Disease Control, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and more) all share grant information on their websites.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

AUGUST 3, 2022

Indirect Expenses: These include administrative and overhead costs, all the costs of all departments outside of the program department, such as finance, human resources, and development. Rather, separate them out, at least by category of revenue – other grants, donors, and fundraising or annual giving.

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Center for Community Progress

JANUARY 6, 2025

They may acquire land outright or work with owners to protect the natural resources of the land and prevent future development. They updated the projects site design, led fundraising for development of the site, project managed construction, and provided technical assistance associated with acquiring parcels from the land bank.

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