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
Grant Readiness Guide
Practical 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
Not 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
Be 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
Logic 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
Our 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.
Basic Grant Writing Acronyms and Terms
Even the most seasoned grant writers may forget a word or two, that's why our team put together commonly used grant writing terms along with their abbreviations and definitions to help you as you grow as a professional.
Tools and Resources
Our team is dedicated to helping grant professionals take the stress out of grants. We compiled a list of our favorite helpful tools and resources to help you.
Grant Life Cycle | The 5 R's of Grant Writing
While there is no perfect formula to grant writing success, there are key best practices to follow that will guide you in creating a successful grant writing strategy.
Grant Writing Style Guide
While your organization may have developed some agreement around the language you use in your grant applications to describe the work you do and those you serve, you also want to have an agreement about what your style preferences are.
NEW SMART Objectives Toolkit
The SMART Objectives Toolkit helps you and your team write clear, measurable, and achievable goals using the SMART framework. With practical tips, examples, and a fillable template, this free resource makes it easy to create objectives that reflect your work and support your funding success.
Catch Our Team as Guest on These Podcasts
- GRANTMAKING IS PEOPLE GIVING TO PEOPLE. TELL YOUR BEST STORY! | 1832 Communications
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- Learn How to Fundraise and Connect with Donors by Telling Better Stories
- Using “Scrum” to Avoid Burnout | Successful Nonprofits
- Grant Writing Success Tips | GRANTTALKS.COM
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- Top 10 Federal Grant Writing Mistakes | Nonprofit MBA Podcast
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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