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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. Where do you belong in your organization? Who do you report to? We are involved in strategic planning.

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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. My background in planning, including parks planning, provides a knowledge base they didn't have access to before. Still, there is tension between being more active or more passive.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Five | Planning for Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Gary Webb’s artwork Squeaky Clean takes the form of an interactive public sculpture and is a permanent commission situated in Charlton Park, Greenwich. Gary Webb’s artwork Squeaky Clean takes the form of an interactive public sculpture and is a permanent commission situated in Charlton Park, Greenwich. Photo: Donald Yip. “We

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Five | Planning for Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Gary Webb’s artwork Squeaky Clean takes the form of an interactive public sculpture and is a permanent commission situated in Charlton Park, Greenwich. Gary Webb’s artwork Squeaky Clean takes the form of an interactive public sculpture and is a permanent commission situated in Charlton Park, Greenwich. Photo: Donald Yip. “We

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Parks with extraordinary environmental features face big losses in the face of sustained heat. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. national parks are trying to go carbon-free. What does that mean for visitors? ," National Geographic -- " What to Save?

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Art has shaped our perception of landscapes, parks, and other public spaces for 200+ years in the United States alone, and longer in Europe (" ‘Nature’s Nation’: How American art shaped our environmental perspectives ," Princeton University Art Museum). Gene Harris Bandshell (amphitheater), Julia Davis Park, Boise, Idaho.