Nonprofit Funding Made Easy (tm)

Nonprofit Funding Made Easy (tm)

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Every engagement and begins with an assessment. We provide thorough assessments in 10 business days. You’ll have an intake call, interim emails or short calls, and then a full assessment round up call. We assess your capacity, challenges, opportunities, current funding initiatives and 2025 funding activities.

  • You will discover what your best options for funding are for 2026.

  • Tools that could help YOUR nonprofit meet its goals in the short and long-term.

  • You take it from there or review options for next steps.

You will leave with a clear vision of 2026 and the best opportunities and areas to allocate your valuable development activities and time.

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Summer is our favorite time of year to work with new and seasoned nonprofit staff whether experienced or new! Hybrid hours and less people in the office means more focused time to work, learn, and plan! We created the Summer Cohort to train-up or prepare for all of your funding needs. All of our Cohorts are customized via our onboarding call.

What you get: You’ll end the summer with everything you need to end your year strong AND items to use throughout 2026! You will have graphics, copy, a calendar, tips to get what you need from staff, and so much more!

Based on your needs, you may learn our proprietary funding model and how to begin using it, create an amazing Annual Report that will bring in revenue, create a sponsorship program, write winning grants, or create your year-end appeal!

All of this is through our proprietary Funding Model, LIVE trainings, 1:1 calls, Private Slack channel for 1:1 support ad collateral review, Group Trainings, special guests doing deep dives into topics like social media for the 4th quarter, donor engagement today, platforms we use, and how you can benefit from them, special discounts on any other supports need and for some of the platforms we use, and, SO MUCH MORE.

Book a call to learn more!

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Our Services

A service is only valuable if it provides ‘what you need when you need it’. Below you will find the most sought-after services we provide: immediate support over a short or extended period of time, actual work product delivery, live and recorded training(s,) and weekly hot topics, tips, and tools!

We can’t wait to meet you and for the opportunity to support you and your work!

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Development Director, Nonprofit with a $5M FYB

“You really understand nonprofits. Just knowing that what we’re dealing with isn’t uncommon makes us feel better already. Thank you for providing a positive path forward.”

Executive Director Urban Nonprofit [8th year of weekly calls]

“You did it again! You took everything I need to do and provided a simple structured plan for me to implement. I can do this! I was completely overwhelmed before our call.”

Become Grant Ready

Great-ready is funding ready!