Year 17! Our team is so excited to be celebrating 17 years of supporting incredible nonprofits creating impacts in their communities. Since 2006, we have helped secure over $104.5M in grant awards and trained…
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Five Tips to Help You Find Opportunities to Become a Grant Reviewer
Some of you may not know this about me, but I actually started my career as the Program Officer at the Michigan Women’s Foundation. I spent my days working with our two grantmaking committees (the…
2022 Top Grant Writing Blogs
We’re excited to announce the 2022 Top Grant Writing Blogs to Follow. It is the goal of DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services to assist nonprofit organizations with competitively researching, applying, and receiving…
Stop Chasing Grant Money
If I had a dollar for every time I heard one of these phrases, I’d be a millionaire. “You won’t get the grant if you don’t apply.” “We’re eligible, so we should apply.”…
Grant Tools, Tips, Lists, and Hacks
Is it just me, or are grant professionals obsessed with numbered lists? I see them everywhere – from blog posts to webinars to podcast episodes. Top 8 ways to ruin a grant proposal. Top 25…
Telling the Story of Your Impact
I was a keynote speaker at the Reimagine Communities Summit powered by Capital One recently, and one of the sessions during the event was a panel discussion with three large corporate funders. Who might you…
3 Essentials For Nonprofit Sustainability You May Have Missed
Which do you like first, the good news or the bad news? But before you answer, what if I told you that the good news is also the bad news? How you or your…
From Good to Better to Best – Telling a Compelling Story of Impact
When it comes to making an impact on the communities and issues they have prioritized as a philanthropic body, grant funders live vicariously through their awardees. So it makes sense that they would want to…
Add Productivity by Subtracting Distractions
After years of pandemics, civil unrest, natural disasters, and economic uncertainty, what red-blooded grant writer or fundraiser wouldn’t want to curl up on a comfy couch and scroll away for a few minutes to escape…
When It Comes to Baking the Perfect Grant Proposal, It’s Not Just About the Ingredients
My family has a cake recipe that we have passed around for years now. We were introduced to it when my sister made my wedding cake, and it is now used for birthday cupcakes, anniversary…