Nonprofit Funding

Money. It is what keeps non-profit leaders up at night. How can you increase revenues? How can you close the gap between what you earn and what you need? How can you raise more funds? How can you obtain funding for  your mission both today and long-term?

Karen Eber Davis Consulting can help. One of today’s most sought after non-profit experts, Karen is on a mission to help non-profit leaders generate sustainable income. Her work is known for its innovation. To help clients fulfill their goals in creative, effective, and whenever possible, brilliant ways, she helps them to explore and exploit all seven of the key non-profit funding opportunities and pursue those with the greatest potential –including and beyond the usual strategies and solutions.

We provide income and funding help that includes:

• Exploring which of the seven key non-profit income sources will work for you and creating customized income plans.
• Identifying the most time and cost efficient options.
• Educating your board about funding opportunities and how they can help.
• Designing sustainable income opportunities through mission earned income, individual gifts, government, foundation and corporations and in-kind sources.
• Coaching you to earn new and expand existing funding sources.

You can obtain the funding you need to help your organization meet its mission statement. Call us today at 941-924-4860 to find out how!

Grants

“Usually I read a draft proposal (especially a first one) and easily come up with a list of several suggestions for improvement. The quality of this proposal is so high, however, that I’m struggling to find anything at all. This is excellent work.”

Evan Jones, Grants Manager
William G. and Marie Selby Foundation

We provide as needed grant services to maximize grant funding from foundation, governments and others sources that include:

• Identifying grant sources and creating a grant seeking strategy
• Identifying compelling grant projects
• Coaching you on building your relationship with grant and other donors
• Writing grants
• Assisting your staff to draft grants
• Reviewing grants you write for feedback
• Maximizing site visits and other post-applications opportunities
• Grants management

Every grant seeking organization has individual needs. Generally, we recommend a 75 percent success rate goal of request to receipts. At this success level, the organization receives strong benefits from their efforts, but also expands their pool of potential grant donors to create new beneficial relationships.

Here are some grant related projects from our files:

• Understanding Your Specific Possibilities
• Identifying Responsive Grant Requests

The leader of the Animal Rescue Coalition and board had a vision that a low-cost mobile spay-neuter clinic could greatly reduce the number of healthy, adoptable animals put to death in their area. We worked with staff to identify grant sources and drafted three successful grant proposals that helped them to purchase and open a mobile clinic. One year later, we helped the organization design and write four grant proposals that yielded an additional $65,000 to expand the clinic hours and provide new services to low-income pet owners.

• Enhanced Grant Seeking Effectiveness
• Increased Revenue

Karen Eber Davis’ Consulting work with one southwest Florida organization helped to create 41 additional units of housing for adults with mental illness over a two-year period and over five million dollars over five years, thus increasing their housing stock by 50 percent.

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