Fundraising & Prospect Research

In addition to assisting you throughout the entire fundraising process — from research to drafting proposals to reporting — we make sure you build long-term, impactful partnerships with funders along the way.

In fact, we believe in strategic partnerships so much that we even wrote a book about it!

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Finance & Accounting

We combine years of social sector accounting and bookkeeping experience with personal attention and responsiveness, allowing you to better manage and plan your organization’s finances. We are knowledgeable about the accounting and reporting demands of restricted funding, and can help organizations at all stages of development to improve their accounting and finance systems.

Marketing & Communications

We can help you design marketing assets that will help you reach your target audience and inspire them to action.

Editorial & Design Support

Social change means frequently and strategically communicating to donors, program participants and prospective and current team and board members. Let us help you make your content shine through our editorial and design services, including: 

• Proofreading and copy-editing documents of all kinds: Proposals, two-pagers, presentations, toolkits, program materials, employee manuals, board reports, etc.
• Editing content for clarity, persuasiveness and conciseness. We are experts at editing proposals to highlight strong alignment and to meet tight character and word counts.
• Formatting content into an attractive piece through thoughtful editing and light graphic design. We can take your final draft and make it look and feel truly ready to go.
• Editing with instructive comments that helps your team to upgrade their writing, fundraising and communication skills and knowledge.

Ask us about our monthly Editorial & Design Support retainer service that provides you with a dedicated editorial and design team and ensures that all of your content and communications are sharp, professional and effective. 

Strategic Planning

Entrepreneurial organizations need strong strategies that will lead to greater impact and sustainability. The challenge is to create a strategic plan that is realistic, flexible enough to adapt to an ever-changing world, including one affected by COVID-19, and that doesn’t take months to create at significant cost. We have supported nearly 100 organizations to raise funds to execute on their strategic plans and we have written countless reports about the results—and misses—against the goals in strategic plans. We know the core scale strategies that work, and that don’t.

Our senior team members who have led nonprofit organizations and businesses are available to work with your organization, leadership, and board to create a nimble, agile, inspiring, and achievable strategic plan, at affordable rates.

Grantmaking Services

We believe that impact happens best when nonprofits and funders build long-term partnerships rooted in equality, low power dynamics, and respect. 

In fact, we believe so strongly that equal partnerships make for epic impact that we wrote a book about it!

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We offer services to foundations to help them achieve more inclusive and equitable grantmaking and partnerships, including:

• Screening grant applications from the nonprofit operating perspective to be sure good organizations are not passed over. 
• Auditing and editing grant application processes to be more equitable and inclusive for all applicants and to take less time and effort for both nonprofits and grantmakers.
• Delivering direct, honest, respectful feedback on grant requests to nonprofits in a way that helps them strengthen their programs and fundraising efforts.
• Interviewing applicants to get their feedback to make processes more efficient and inclusive.
• Reviewing and evaluating strategic initiatives, program areas and guidelines for inclusiveness. 
• Reviewing and editing communications, policies and practices of the foundation to weed out high power dynamics, and build in inclusiveness, respect and equal partnership.