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All the Data for All Your Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

Census Bureau website ( www.census.gov ) has thousands of tables full of social, economic, housing, and demographic data. You can learn about Baby Boomers, school districts, occupations, nativity, foreign trade, poverty, building permits, transportation, and so much more. Using the data, you can build customized maps.

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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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Re-“View”ing How to Win BIL Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

My Fundraising HayDay podcast co-host and dear friend Amanda Day experienced a new way of looking at things during a recent vacation. 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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Need Is Not Enough To Win Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

From dubious quizzes about your soul mate in 1980s women’s magazines to Buzzfeed’s endless supply of “decorate your dream house, and we’ll guess your eye color,” I’m always game to give it a go and rarely seem to match up with what should be the correct answer. I’m a sucker for a quiz. It’s all in fun. You can take the quiz here: [link].

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part One | Defining Levels of Service for individual parks

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am on the board of Sugar House Park, which is owned by both the city and county, so it has some interesting intergovernmental issues. Level of service a s a public administration term The term Level of Service is typically thought of in transportation term is used to refer to vehicle throughput, functioning of intersections, etc.

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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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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I suggested many things over the years including: -- creating a transportation management district for the Capitol Hill area, serving Eastern Market. Cannon's Steak House was a premier restaurant in the old Florida Market District, just like St. Stuff I suggested over the years. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006.