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Where in the Organization Chart Does Your Grant Professional Belong?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

We are fundraisers, so nonprofits often place us in the development department. Some metropolitan cities have grant professionals embedded in multiple departments – police, fire, parks and recreation, and transportation. We bring in funding for our organization, so some agencies lump us in the finance department.

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Need Is Not Enough To Win Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

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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Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One

Peak Proposals

An example of using benefits before features is illustrated by a current fundraising campaign launched by Uber. However, the trip may not happen unless you have a detailed plan that includes your timeline for leaving, the transportation you’ll use to get there, and a designated place where you will stay once you arrive.

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Good, Better, Best: Three Tips for Transforming a Mediocre Grant Proposal into a Great One

Peak Proposals

An example of using benefits before features is illustrated by a current fundraising campaign launched by Uber. However, the trip may not happen unless you also have a detailed plan that includes your timeline for leaving, the transportation you’ll use to get there, and a designated place to stay. A proposal has similar requirements.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Arts Festival and fundraiser, Uintah Elementary School, Salt Lake City. Although many of the schools do art festivals in the Spring, doing great projects as fundraisers. Most figure that PTAs suffice, but again, PTAs are mostly comprised of parents of schoolchildren, not interested parties without children. It dates to the 1980s.

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Charging Forward: Public sector EVs pose both challenges and opportunities for state agencies and their partners

American City & Country

These vendors bring a wealth of expertise and innovative solutions to the table, from developing fast-charging technology to creating scalable, modular charging stations that can be easily deployed in a variety of settings. Isaac lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., with his wife, Lorna, and his daughter, Quinn.