Grant Writing Resources
Our team knows that nonprofits often have tight operating budgets, which is why as a means to help achieve the mission of our firm and improve the capacity of grant seeking organizations, our President, Diane H. Leonard, GPC, works to offer afforadble grant writing webinars and other resources in partnership with organizations like CharityHowTo, Foundant Technologies (GrantHub), and other business partnerships with local United Ways and community foundations.
The 5 R's of Grant Writing
Our Paid Resources
Grant Readiness Guide
$19.99Practical tips to help every grant seeking organization improve their overall grant readiness.
What you get with your guide:
- What grant readiness is, because we know it is more than simply wanting to increase the grant revenue in your financial statements.
- How having a strategic plan can improve your grant readiness.
- The role that a grant team plays in your grant readiness as an organization.
- What tools are available to help you monitor your grant readiness for individual grant applications as well as overall for the organization.
Grant Research Guide
$19.99Not every funder is a perfect fit.
This guide will help you understand why you should say no to some grant opportunities, has helpful brainstorming prompts, and a way to track funders that are not a fit right now.
AND walk you through creating a grant calendar for those that you say YES to!
Grantmaker Relationship Guide
$19.99Be successful in Your Relationship Outreach to Grantmakers
This toolkit is designed to walk you through step-by-step successfully reaching out to your grantmaker with talking points, questionnaire and tips!
Logic Model Guidebook
$19.99Logic models are a common part of grant applications.
Logic models also increase the shared understanding of the program design between program leadership and the grant professional/grant writer working on the application.
This guide lays out the steps we follow when building a logic model for a program. With each step, we also provide you examples for what the section might contain.
Mock Review Toolkit
$19.99Our team is dedicated to helping you feel confident when you click submit. We created a mock review toolkit for you to simulate the review experience.
In this guide you will receive:
- Tool to assist in running a mock scoring audit internally,
- Provides a firm application rubric for when one is not given by a potential funder, and
- Criteria to help improve and ensure a complete grant application.
Interested in ALL? Purchase the bundle for just $89.99
Our Free Resources
Free Recorded Grant Writing Webinars
You can keep an eye out for more free webinars on grant writing, and also view a number of other nonprofit related free sessions, on the CharityHowTo website here.
10 Tips and Tricks for a Successful Grant Seeking Strategy
Participating in “10 Tips for a Successful Grant Seeking Strategy” will give you some “insider” tips and tricks from the funder’s perspective that will assist you when working on creating and implementing your grant-seeking strategy. Use the tips discussed in this webinar to ensure that you are putting together highly competitive grant applications and ultimately achieving your desired grant funding success.
10 Ways to Improve Relationships with Your Grantmakers
Diane H. Leonard, GPC will give you new ideas on how to enhance grantmaker relationships in a way that aligns with your organization’s capacity and voice.
How to Stand Out From the Crowd in Online Grant Applications
In “How to Stand Out From the Crowd in Online Grant Applications” you will learn grant writing that helps address how to create a concise, compelling and competitive nonprofit grant application for online grant application scenarios. We will look at specific examples for tips that make reviewing your online grant proposal easier for reviewers. We will also explain how to avoid losing the power of your story when your application is broken up across numerous fields.
So You Want to Write a Grant?
Participating in “So You Want to Write a Grant?” will help you understand how to get started with the grant writing process.
In this recorded webinar, we will discuss how grants can help your organization implement new programs or projects to best achieve its mission. We will also address the common pitfalls encountered by many organizations seeking grants for the first time as well as common challenges for new grant writers.
How to Supercharge Your Grant Research
In this recorded webinar, we will discuss how to best use the variety of tools available for foundation research in order to create and support your grant seeking plan and strategy. We will look at opportunities for discounts or short-term access to reduce grant research expenses while supercharging your results from the research.
We will also address the key role that your colleagues should play in the grant research process and how to get them excited and engaged to help keep their eyes open for grant opportunities.
Why Build Relationships with Grantmakers?
In this recorded webinar, we talk briefly about *why* relationships with grantmakers are important. We will share ways to learn if a grantmaker has the capacity to have relationships with potential grantees prior to submitting an award versus what their preference is for communication prior to an award.
We will also address the key role that your colleagues should play in the grant relationship outreach process and how to get them excited and engaged to help look for connections and make introductions to grantmakers.
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It is a great pleasure to recommend Diane and her exceptional team at DH Leonard Consulting. With her firm's assistance, North Carolina New Schools was successful in securing a $20 million i3 scale up grant from the U.S. Department of Education. This was an incredibly complex and challenging proposal; with their help, what seemed impossible became possible. Her expertise, strategic and thoughtful approaches, great communication, and flexibility were tremendous assets in this process. They are adept with program development, proposal writing, budget development, logic models and much more. I highly recommend Diane and DH Leonard Consulting and am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with them.
Sylvia DuRant
Director
Corporate and Foundation Relations at Elon University
Agile in Nonprofits Free Resources
Agile in Nonprofits strives to support nonprofit organizations that are looking to achieve greater impact in their communities faster than they ever have before. Led by Scrum Trainer, Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST, the Agile in Nonprofits team support nonprofits through training and coaching to assist in each organizations’ agile transformation.
Agile in Nonprofits, started in 2018, is a product of DH Leonard Consulting.
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