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All the Data for All Your Grants

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

You can learn about Baby Boomers, school districts, occupations, nativity, foreign trade, poverty, building permits, transportation, and so much more. Census Bureau joined the Fundraising HayDay podcast to talk and share resources galore. With so much to sift through on the website, it can be overwhelming to know where to even begin.

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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 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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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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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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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The university’s $6 million plan looks good so far, with a fundraising campaign on the way. Plans for a redesign of the State Street commercial corridor in downtown Ann Arbor as presented to the city's Transportation Commission by the Downtown Development Authority and SmithGroup in January 2022.