DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Effective grant management goes beyond tracking funds in your CRM its also about budgeting effectively, prioritizing programs that need financial support, and delivering timely reports to grantmakers. Many grantmakers request a proposed budget along with grant applications to show youre thinking about these goals from the start.

Finance

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 23, 2024

He was facing a significant tax liability if he didn’t get this completed before the calendar rolled into January. This allowed him the complete deduction in that calendar year. It simply is not inspirational for a charity to declare that they must have more resources in the next few weeks to meet their budget.

Liability

Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

What Are the Best Practices for Conducting a Post-School Fundraiser Review? Blog Summary: Post-school fundraiser reviews are essential for ensuring long-term success and continuous improvement. Why Conduct a Post-Fundraiser Review? A well-structured review goes beyond numbers and focuses on the overall experience.

Fundraising

Just Write Grants

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Grant writing is a critical component of nonprofit fundraising, but it often comes with its own set of challenges. Solution To manage time constraints effectively: Develop a Grant Calendar : Create a detailed calendar with deadlines, submission requirements, and timelines for each grant application. Budgeting and Financials 5.1

Grant Writing

Wild Apricot

JULY 16, 2025

Focusing here maximizes your fundraising potential. Built-In Fundraising Tools Facebook offers integrated fundraising features, making it easier than ever to collect donations without redirecting donors to another site. If you have the budget for it, consider a social media scheduling tool. and decide how often to post.

Media

GrantNews

JUNE 12, 2025

However, you don’t need a million-dollar budget to make a difference. Transparent Reports: Funding for Your Nonprofit Build trust with your team and supporters by providing a clear, realistic budget. Utilize budgeting tools to monitor spending patterns. In truth, every decision you make affects the impact of your group.

Funding

The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 17, 2025

From tight budgets to limited staffing, these hurdles can make even the simplest event feel overwhelming. Budget Constraints Tight finances can make it difficult to secure venues, hire vendors, and provide high-quality experiences for attendees. However, many organizations face common challenges that complicate the planning process.

Budget

Big Fundraising Ideas

MARCH 18, 2025

How to Secure Sponsorships for Your School Fundraisers Blog Summary: School fundraisers are crucial for enhancing educational experiences. School fundraisers have always played a vital role in bringing communities together and supporting important educational initiatives.

Fundraising

Allied Grant Writers

JUNE 8, 2025

Each structure offers unique advantages based on an organization’s needs and budget constraints. A nonprofit can make better budget decisions for grant writing services by knowing these payment models. This setup helps everyone – organizations can budget exactly, while writers get rewarded for working efficiently.

Grant

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Update Your Grant Calendar An organized, realistic calendar is the backbone of a successful nonprofit grant strategy, especially as you approach the high-stakes Q3 and Q4 deadlines. Include milestones for internal review, feedback, budget revisions, and final polishing. Tip: Link training back to your active grant calendar.

Grant

DoJiggy

APRIL 8, 2025

Lacrosse teams rely on fundraising to cover the costs of equipment, travel, uniforms, tournament fees, and other expenses. Whether youre part of a school team, a youth league, or a lacrosse club, organizing a lacrosse fundraiser can make a significant financial impact while bringing your community together.

Fundraising

Gail Perry Group

MAY 8, 2025

Budgets are vanishing, yet community needs keep piling up. And budgets are being eliminated overnight. When Cassie worked for her local congressman, she literally decided his appointment calendar. Its just like fundraising Developing relationships with elected officials is just like cultivating donors.

Government

Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 5, 2025

Unfortunately, your fundraising team is busy preparing for your organizations annual event, and it is all-hands-on-deck. You had a fundraising plan and office that was running pretty smoothly. A missed deadline may mean fundraising dollars that can never be recouped. Then, it changed.

Grant Writing

GrantNews

JANUARY 2, 2025

Social fundraising is when a nonprofit showcases a social cause it is missioned to address. In truth, tracking metrics like donor retention, return per acquisition, and volunteer engagement helps teams increases productivity, optimize their marketing budget and more. Donor-Centric Practices We hear it all the time.

AI

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Its hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

Planned Giving

MAY 12, 2025

This guide offers the most practical, scalable approach to launching a planned giving programeven if you’re a small nonprofit with limited staff and budget. industry average) Executive Director’s Reflection: “The transformation went beyond fundraising. And it’s never too early to start.

Policy

Planned Giving

APRIL 17, 2025

From 26 years in business, Ive heard every excuse, myth, and magic-bullet theory fundraising has to offer. Why are you fundraising? But if your relationship hasnt led to a gift in five years, its a coffee habit, not a fundraising strategy. This is fundraising, not hide-and-seek. 32 Were too busy to fundraise.

SAM

Bonterra

JULY 3, 2025

Nonprofit organizations hold a variety of events, from fundraising galas to auctions to community outreach programs. That’s where fundraising event management software for nonprofits can help. But managing everything required for a standout event is challenging.

Software

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Primary School Fundraising Ideas: A Seasonal and Year-Round Guide Blog Summary: Looking for fun ways to raise money for your primary school throughout the year? Youll get practical tips, references to helpful resources, and fresh ideas to maximize your primary school fundraising ideas. mugs, T-shirts) featuring castmembers.

Fundraising

CauseVox

MAY 27, 2025

Its hard to fundraise without clean, easy-to-access donor data. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. Luckily, theres a simple answer to streamline your fundraising and track your data quickly and simply: a nonprofit CRM. What is a Nonprofit CRM?

CRM

Blackbaud

JULY 28, 2025

Documents like gift agreements and receipts flow automatically between your fundraising CRM and your finance accounting system, lightening the load when it comes to your next audit. If your nonprofit pays a contractor $600 or more in a calendar year, then you will need to issue them a form 1099-NEC at the end of the year.

Finance

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. So one of the things you can do when you are on your Instrumentl account is set up a very specific project for the programs and initiatives that you're fundraising for. instrumentl.com/teresa. Will: Yeah. That may or may not work together.

Instrumentl

DoJiggy

APRIL 22, 2025

However, maintaining and expanding these initiatives often requires creative fundraising strategies. Whether youre representing a bustling metropolitan chamber or a small-town business coalition, having a list of effective fundraising ideas for Chambers of Commerce can make all the difference. Start Fundraising 2.

Fundraising

Wild Apricot

JUNE 24, 2025

Nonprofits operate with tight budgets and small teams, and staying connected with donors, volunteers, and members is a major priority. When someone signs up, they will automatically receive a confirmation email with details, followed by a calendar invite or prep materials. The solution? Marketing automation.

CRM

GiveSmart

APRIL 1, 2025

No matter a nonprofits yearly fundraising budget, organizations recently shared that events make up nearly half of their annual revenue. 1 With grant funding under threat and siege , many organizations acknowledge increasing revenue streams via fundraising events will be necessary to maintain programs and support missions.

Fundraising

Instrumentl

JUNE 21, 2025

Instrumentl is the institutional fundraising platform. Calendar alerts. I live by my calendar alerts. For some reason, whether it be some requirement that they had to be a certain type of organization or a certain budget or serve a certain population, it's like, oh, okay. That saves a ton of time.

Instrumentl

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Autumn definitely means “go time” in the life of a fundraiser, often because it signals the start of year-end , a period of time you may get upwards of 60% or more of your annual donations. Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar , it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan —and stick to it.

Calendar

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Need to create your 2021 fundraising plan? Register for the course, “How To Create A Fundraising Plan For 2021” for only $115. “If And as far as fundraising planning goes, your fundraising plans were thrown off. Creating a Fundraising Plan. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting.

Calendar

CauseVox

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Seasoned fundraisers are well aware that fundraising involves a lot more than simply asking for donations. A fundraising calendar can help you streamline this process so you can raise more with less effort. Managing your fundraising efforts can be difficult, especially if you are working on a team.

Calendar

Qgiv

MAY 3, 2023

Fundraising calendars help set your nonprofit up for success for the entire year. A fundraising calendar enables you to keep your goals, campaigns, strategies, and due dates all in one place that your whole team has access to. Another objective you need to define for your fundraising calendar is your awareness goal.

Calendar

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 20, 2023

When you’re just getting started, it’s critical that one of your first steps is to create your nonprofit’s first budget to help you manage both your organization and your finances as it grows. Without a budget, you can find yourself in deep water, fast, with more money going out than coming in.

Budget

GiveSmart

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Managing your annual budget—and multiple budgets within it—is one of the most crucial components of running a nonprofit organization. Learn more about what a nonprofit fiscal year is and how you can arrange your budget to best meet your organization’s financial needs below. What is a Nonprofit Fiscal Year?

Budget

Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Having the right tools in your fundraising toolkit makes your life easier. And your fundraising more productive! It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it. Detailed activity calendar. Most nonprofits have no plan for fundraising.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 28, 2022

You can’t plan out your nonprofit’s impact this year without projecting your fundraising revenue. In fact, you must plan your programs first so you know what your fundraising goal is. You don’t get a ‘pass’ if you think you’re not a numbers person or if this is your nonprofit’s first budget ! The two are tied together.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

To fully fund your nonprofit, you need a diversified fundraising stream. Diversified fundraising revenue creates stability and keeps you from being dependent on one source of funding. Getting your funds from multiple sources is especially important when fundraising for a new nonprofit. No fundraising from individuals.

Fundraising

Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Drafting a fundraising plan can be intimidating, especially if it’s your first time and you have no fundraising plan structure. You see, a good fundraising plan isn’t something you knock out in an afternoon. Your answers will give your fundraising plan structure and allow you to move forward with this important task.

Fundraising

CauseVox

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Autumn definitely means “go time” in the life of a fundraiser, often because it signals the start of year-end , a period of time you may get upwards of 60% or more of your annual donations. Even if you don’t follow a definitive fundraising calendar, it’s still vital to come up with a year-end fundraising plan—and stick to it.

Fundraising