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D2D Grants Strategy Offers:
- No retainer
- No hidden fees
- Reasonable price points for both large established national nonprofits and new startups
- Hourly billing for work completed only
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- Pay as you go and pay for only what you need
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Before a summit climb, teams review a
CHECKLIST
D2D Grants Strategy provides ala carte “menu” items for you to choose: Perhaps to take your grants program to the next level to win more awards and larger grants, or perhaps to launch a new grants program. Required menu items have an have an asterisk (*); highly recommended items are indicated with two asterisks (**). There is no “one size fits all” with grants consulting. With items selected from a menu, your contract only includes what you need.
BASE CAMP
- Organizational A-Z grants assessment of internal resources (systems, staffing, tools and procedures) and SWOT to provide strategic recommendations*
- Implementation of best practices through any or every step of the grant’s lifecycle:
- Letter of Inquiry (LOI) or Pre-Application
- Project Management And Application
- Site Visit
- Communication
- Strategy
- Presentations
- Reporting, and
- PR/Media for Target Audiences (including major donors and foundations)
PREPARATION
- Best practice draft Grants Management Policy and Procedure (P&P) or Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) customized for your organization** that:
- Guides all aspects of your organization’s grant management,
- Describes the complete grant lifecycle,
- Supports team member job descriptions, Critical Performance Targets (CPTs) and Leadership Development Plans (LDPs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives & Key Results (OKR)
- Includes a scoring matrix to evaluate funding opportunities
- Advances organizational agility to clearly define the process for executive or board approval of an application
- Hardwires processes for robust grants management and reporting
- Cascades to support your Strategic Plan
- Evaluating readiness, risk and ROI for seeking public (state and federal) versus private (foundation) funding
FOUNDATION PROSPECT IDENTIFICATION
- Identification of top 10 foundations that should be on your radar*
- Customize matrix scoring to quickly evaluate grant opportunities that are on tight deadlines*
- Prospect research customized to your organization to uncover local, regional and national foundations (both small and large) that are uniquely focused on your mission**
- Steps to re-engage lapsed foundations
- Exploring corporation, fraternal, benevolence, denominational and faith-based grant opportunities
- Customizing and hardwiring approaches (top-tier vs. small family foundations)
- Exploring Donor Advised Fund (DAF) opportunities
- Eligibility and strategies for state and federal grant opportunities and earmarks
APPLICATION PREPARATION
- Getting past foundation gatekeepers (that have gatekeepers that have gatekeepers)
- Submitting strong LOIs in an extremely competitive landscape to get proposals invited
- Grant writing to produce proposals for both foundations, corporations and major donors
- Managing relationships with gatekeepers and decision makers
- Utilizing AI to accelerate and improve writing to answer application prompts
- Preparing a general operations template (to “have in your back pocket” and always ready for major donor meetings or foundation opportunities when there is little time to prepare)
APPLICATION SUBMISSION
- Interpreting specific Foundation grant guidelines and application questions
- Grant writing for special projects, strategic innovations, capacity-building or capital campaigns
- Strategy in knowing the ask amount range, understanding eligibility, and if a conduit/pass-through is required
- Building budget and budget narratives that tell a story
- Making your application stand out in an increasingly competitive field
- Messaging support to align organizational mission with foundation funding priorities
- Project management for complex applications (private foundation and state/federal government grants)
GRANTS
MENTORING
- Creating a master grant calendar to monitor and manage critical deadlines*
- Portfolio Management
- Growth Strategies
- Templates & tools
- Foundation Moves Strategies
- Grant management
- Proposal writing
- Giving Trends
- Expert insights:
- When your Foundation donor is giving larger grants to other nonprofits;
- When research or wealth screening shows a Major Donor is a trustee on a foundation
EMBED AN EXPERIENCED PROFESSIONAL
IN YOUR TEAM
- Embed a seasoned professional with your fundraising team to extend your reach while training your team to function at a higher and more strategic level, to support:
- First contact Letter of Inquiries (LOIs)
- Grant applications
- Reports on funding
- Applications for renewed funding
- Reviewing and managing grant agreements and contracts
- Applying the latest best practices, resources and tools
EXECUTIVE
COACHING
- Coaching at all levels for program development, process improvement or grants management
- Guidance to improve processes to help your grant program grow, and make more and bigger asks
- Process improvement guidance to expand your requests
- Assistance in drafting job descriptions and recruiting grants staff
- Building & leading a robust Advancement team to expand organizational/ministry impact
ACCELERATE ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE
- Aligning nonprofit board members in engaging with their organization’s fundraising priorities
- Strategic board recruitment to support a culture of philanthropy
- Utilizing board relationships in foundation outreach to get past gatekeepers