Has a proven track record in grant procurement and 35 years experience with municipal, state, federal, and regional planning agencies, non-profit organizations, churches, and denominational bodies. Specializes in housing and community development, services to the homeless, religious institutions, and health care providers.

David Bury & Associates

David Bury & Associates enables arts organizations to become more capable and effective entities by helping them achieve their fundraising goals. Each year, we work with twenty to thirty organizations nationwide, strengthening their fundraising programs, extending their organizational capabilities and enabling them to realize their artistic visions. Our strengths lie in helping organizations build meaningful long-term relationships with donors and funders, and in articulating organizations' plans and visions in powerful and compelling language. Our areas of work include foundation and corporate development strategy and implementation, campaign strategy and planning, interim development oversight, strategic planning, and board development. Current and recent clients include accomplished national and regional arts organizations such as Meet The Composer, Opera America, Danspace Project, the National Performance Network, the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Third Street Music School Settlement.

David Hindie

A former J.P. Morgan analyst with 18+ years – experience as a staff member, board member, teacher, and consultant. Led East Harlem Tutorial Program's development efforts as it grew from a $200,000 budget to more than $2 million. Teach fundraising at NYU's Center for Philanthropy. Member of the Foundation Center's Fundraising Consulting Network. Have helped nonprofit organizations with budgets ranging from $100,000 to $155 million on in a range of areas, including board development, management assistance, staff recruitment, strategic planning, and fund development. Provide the same range of services as larger firms but with more individual attention and work performed by an experienced principal, not a junior staff member. Services customized to your needs and budget.

Deborah J. Stinson

Services provided include strategic planning; program and organizational development; outcomes management; fundraising, including proposal and budget development; and review of marketing materials. Areas of expertise: Services to children, youth, and families. Expertise includes knowledge of child welfare, AIDS, emerging housing for youth, day care, employment, and substance abuse treatment.

Draper Consulting Group

Since 1990, Draper Consulting Group (DCG) has provided high quality, customized assistance to over 140 grantmakers and nonprofit organizations in the fields of health, social services, education, and the arts. Because we work directly with funders as well as service providers, DCG has a comprehensive understanding of the nonprofit sector, cutting edge trends, and the needs of donors as well as nonprofit managers.

DCG has exemplary expertise in strategic planning, board and staff development, and the full range of private sector fundraising from individuals, foundations, and corporations. We help organizations expand and diversify their funding base with attention to building internal capacity and ensuring long-term sustainability. We have experience in effective annual fundraising, major donor development, grantsmanship, capital campaigns, and innovative fundraising that reaches younger donors and new segments of wealth. Our approach to strategic planning complements goal setting with budget projection, prioritizing, and fundraising planning. Visit http://www.drapergroup.com for more details and a client list.

E.K. Consulting

If you are a nonprofit, a policy institution, or an international organization, E.K. Consulting can help you create functional, efficient, and sustainable projects and organizations. Services include program design, development, implementation, and evaluation; organizational strategy; analytical research and writing; international economic and community development; and digital divide/nonprofit technology support. Led by Elisa Korentayer, the co-founder of the groundbreaking international development organization Geekcorps, E.K. Consulting has worked with respected institutions such as Harvard University's Center for International Development, Tech Foundation, and the World Economic Forum. Balancing exacting analytical skills with imagination and resourcefulness, E.K. Consulting offers clients the options that lead to the best possible solutions from first-rate grassroots programming to world class academic policy papers, from effective evaluation campaigns to winning organizational strategies.

Egan-Infotects

Egan-Infotects helps clients to design enhanced operating environments using information technology, systems that are not only user-friendly but useful. By building teams of key stakeholders and IT specialists, we ensure a holistic and integrated development process in which all players are communicating. With our independent perspective, experience with diverse clients and critical attention to detail and organization, Egan-Infotects is noted for keeping projects on track. Our mission is to improve the way people use information in order to communicate and share knowledge effectively in the workplace.

Elizabeth Harris

Drawing on nine years of non-profit development experience and three years as a government grants manager, Elizabeth Harris will help your organization to develop:

Floyd Green Financial Services, Inc.

Serving new and established foundations, FGFS provides comprehensive financial services in the areas of 501(c)(3) Creation, Budgeting, Accounting and Investment Services. With 13 years of experience, we bring significant value to your foundation. Specific services include: (1) Forming Foundations and 501(c)(3) organizations; (2) Preparing / Filing all IRS and other government reports; (3) Budgeting for proposals and management of the organization; (4) Investment Services including asset allocation, structuring investments to meet expenditure needs and investment performance monitoring. We can literally serve as the Treasurer / CFO of your organization at a fraction of the cost. And we have a plan to fit every budget. Call now for a Free Initial Consultation.

Group Wisdom

Group Wisdom is a professional research firm with exceptional talent for producing valid, useful, and targeted information using group processes — focus groups, Delphi groups, group interviews, and social marketing groups. Always structured with the end user in mind, our groups marry scientific rigor with practicality in meeting the specific information needs, grant requirements, and budgetary objectives of those we serve. We deliver reliable information for a variety of program and grant-maker requirements including assessing needs, evaluating effectiveness, solving problems, developing interventions, making decisions, and promoting initiatives.

Having worked exclusively with nonprofit and public sector programs since 1995, we understand, the unique needs of recipient populations. We conduct focus groups in English and Spanish, in person or by phone, and with the level of confidentiality and homogeneity required to produce legitimate results. Our Delphi groups can be conducted by mail, email, or electronically. Whatever the need, our groups are customized to maximize inclusiveness and diversity, the cornerstones of effective decision-making. Refer to www.group-wisdom.com for examples of our work and to see what others have to say.

J.C. Geever, Inc.

J.C. Geever, Inc. provides strategic, implementation and training services to help not-for-profit organizations build successful and sustaining fund raising programs. The firm maintains a commitment to providing professional fund raising and management expertise that empowers each and every client to fulfill its mission and to realize its full potential. Our services are tailored to address the specific needs of the client and are driven by the highest standards of quality and integrity. They include development planning, feasibility studies, management of capital campaigns, management of grantseeking programs, strategy and counsel on major gift development, training and coaching for staff and volunteers. The firm is led by Jane C. Geever, Chairman and author of The Foundation Center's Guide to Proposal Writing and John Hicks, President and CEO.

JAB Consulting

Nonprofit management consulting, training, and fundraising, including government and foundation proposal writing, fund development planning, grants management, and prospect research. Also provide organizational development consulting in strategic planning, program development, and community-needs assessment.

Joan Swan, Development Consultant

Thirty years experience in the non-profit sector as a Board member, volunteer and staff person. Eighteen years experience as a successful development consultant to nonprofits in the fields of youth development, literacy, housing, legal services, landmark preservation, community social services, hunger, reproductive health; in capital campaigns, foundation and corporate funding, individual solicitation and Board assessment and development. Areas of expertise include strategic development research, planning, and implementation; proposal and correspondence writing; report preparation; experience in coaching and training Boards and staff in all aspects of fundraising. Short- and long-term assignments.

John O'Donnell Company

For over thirty-five years, the John O'Donnell Company has helped its clients achieve their program objectives through increased financial support. The O'Donnell Company is action-oriented. We are not a consulting firm. We do not tell our clients what to do and then leave them on their own to go out and do it. We work on a day-to-day basis with the groups we represent — helping, encouraging, and actually doing the work. This unique arrangement makes the Company an intimate part of an organization, while allowing us to remain an outside and objective force. We have been very fortunate in serving an unusually significant and diverse group of non-profit institutions. Some are large; some are small. Some are local; some are national; some are international. All contribute to the fabric of contemporary life in the communities they serve.

Juliet Gumbs Fund Raising Consultant

JGFRC conducts board, staff and volunteer training in fund raising. We manage campaigns, create cultivation plans and assist clients in their implementation. We believe that creative and innovative approaches to diverse constituencies are a must for success in the new century. JGFRC is prepared to assist nonprofits with this task.

Linda Ostreicher

Services include research for funding sources and program/ policy areas; writing reports, grant proposals, program manuals and other agency materials; preparation of application packages in response to government RFPs; analysis of surveys and numerical data; budget development and analysis. Expertise in health and social services; demographics; New York City government and its budget process; federal funding streams for social services; and animal welfare issues.

Metis Associates, Inc.

Metis Associates, Inc. is an independent consulting firm that supports public and private organizations in achieving results for the children, adults, families and communities they serve. At Metis, we are particularly proud of our work helping non-profit organizations realize their goals and missions by transforming their general visions for programs and services into concrete plans and then seeking and obtaining the funds to implement them. Before writing a grant proposal, Metis staff works with the organization to help them plan their programs. Our work in this area is highly collaborative: Metis professionals take the time to understand the programmatic needs to be met or the innovation to be introduced into the client's organization.

Once a detailed plan for the program has been established, Metis professionals collaborate with clients in the development of competitive grant proposals for submission to both public and private funding sources. Program development professionals at Metis are well-versed in the requirements and priorities of these funding sources and have a highly successful track record in securing grants for clients. Over the past several years, the Program Planning and Grants Development division at Metis has successfully collaborated with our clients to secure over $80 million in competitive grant funding to support programs for children, youth and families.

Michael Davidson - Nonprofit Management Services

Michael Davidson has over 20 years experience in Nonprofit Management as a Board President, Manager, and Consultant. He has also been an Anthropologist, a Teacher, and a Partner in a leading international law firm. Michael brings this unique combination of experience and expertise, along with hands-on assistance, to helping organizations achieve their vision. Services provided include, interim management assignments; management assessment and support; board development, training, and facilitation; and strategic planning.

Michael F. Evers Fund Raising

Founded in 1986, our primary focus is on helping organizations solicit donations from individuals, including capital campaign management for projects with goals in the $500,000 to $5 million range. Other services include: feasibility studies, major gifts programs—including complex real estate gifts—direct mail (copywriting and campaign management), annual giving, planned giving, proposal writing, small-scale phonathons, and formation of non-profit corporations and development of financial pro formas.

Molly Keeler

Molly Keeler provides fundraising and organizational development consulting services to nonprofit organizations. Services include grant research and proposal writing, major gifts, direct mail, annual campaigns, and organizational communications including newsletter and website writing, fundraising office set-up, staff training and oversight. Types of organizations served include AIDS/HIV services, medical research, settlement houses, consortia, housing, employment/training, arts and arts services, social services, college preparation, youth development, continuing education, and others.

Muir Management Strategies

Our two principals provide hands-on results-oriented board development services, individual coaching, dispute resolution, and financial evaluations for non-profit organizations. We will take on an extensive organization-wide audit or spot troubleshooting. Drawing from over twenty years of non-profit experience and our expertise in law, business and psychology, we:

NPower NY

At NPower NY our aim is to help nonprofits discover and exploit the promise of technology. NPower NY's consulting staff bring an in-depth understanding of the needs and unique challenges facing nonprofits, the power of technology, and how, appropriately applied, technology can further nonprofits' work. We first seek to understand your agency's broader "service delivery" environment. We want to understand, as best we can, an organization's challenges and constraints. Then, within that mission-based framework, we listen to your technology visions, wishes, dreams, and frustrations. Next, we determine which stage — planning, budgeting, or implementation — your agency is in in the Technology Project Lifecycle. To help organizations leverage the potential of technology, we offer a wide variety of consulting services, including Technology Planning and Budgeting, Databases, Networks, Web Sites, and Scheduled Support.

Neighborhood Preservation Coalition of New York State

The coalition provides training and technical assistance to community-based housing organizations throughout New York State. Assistance is provided in strategic planning, board and staff development, housing design and development, community assessments and GIS mapping, and fundraising and organizational development. Free services may be available.

Nora Lapin, Consultant

Consulting services to community-based and other nonprofit, organizations including program and grant development; proposal, report, and speech writing, and communications. Areas of expertise include HIV/AIDS, employment, immigrant, housing, health, youth, social welfare, urban, and woman's issues and programs. Proposals for funding have won more than $100 million. Over 10 years of experience. Strong commitment to improving life for low-income individuals.

Not-for-Profit Grant Writers

Not-for-Profit Grant Writers are your problem solvers for grant writing and prospect research. We create your written materials. We build your prospect and donor base. We are your hotline to the latest grant opportunities. We perform comprehensive research. We document the concept and content of your proposal. Our grant-writing and research services relieve your organization's burdens by reducing your workload, by removing trauma from your deadlines, by freeing resources you need for other purposes and by generally demystifying the entire process. Our prospect research saves you time and helps you avoid inconvenience, confusion, complications and unproductive deployment of your staff. With us you gain instant technological resources and instant experience. We want to help you. American Express, Visa, MasterCard and Discover are accepted.

Oxford & Associates

Our mission is to build community assets, ensuring equitable returns on fundraising investment and enhancing our clients capacity to become self-sufficient through the following services: Annual fund planning / management, foundation & corporate initiatives, special events counseling, technological assessment, fundraising management short / long term, strategic planning and transition management.

Penn Consulting Group

For the past five years, PCG has earned a reputation for helping individuals and 'grassroots' organizations fashion successful funding campaigns: increasing revenue; obtaining first-time grants, and garnering gifts from major donors. PCG President, Jane Penn, specializes in translating best practices from the world of philanthropy for those still building their reputations, as well as their bottom-line.

New for 2006, and in response to the growing needs of its client base, PCG is expanding its services from grant writing and donor relations to include training, strategic planning and 'outsourced' support; as well as a Discount Package and 1-day Clinics for new ventures and small development shops.

Whatever the demand or shift in climate, our philosophy is simple: offer high-quality, cost-effective fundraising services to nonprofits working on the frontlines of their communities.

Resource Development Network — Proposal Writing Services

Resource Development Network, an eleven-year-old fundraising consulting group, is a network of experienced consultants with home-based offices in New Jersey and New York City. We specialize in proposal writing and grantmaker research, with a focus on adoption, youth programming in the Latino and Asian American communities, children affected by HIV/AIDS, education, and special needs education. As a network of consultants, we have the ability to expand our team as needed to cope with heavy deadlines and one-time special needs; have low overhead costs, which means lower fundraising costs for our clients; keep proposal writing tasks on schedule when our clients are at their busiest; and offer access to some of the best consultants in the field — consultants with dozens of years of combined experience as executive directors or development executives in noprofit agencies. Susan Caruso-Green, RDN' president, is a former contributions officer for Citigroup, with over 25 years of experience in philanthropy.

Rockefeller Financial

Please contact Michael at (202) 719-3012 or mmarsh@rockco.com to discuss joining Rockefeller Financial's family of satisfied clients. Rockefeller Financial is a leading, fully integrated wealth and investment management firm providing services to a varied clientele globally (e.g., Foundations, Endowments, Nonprofits, Religious, Academic, Associations, NGOs, family offices, affluent individuals, etc.).

Successor to the John D. Rockefeller family office founded in 1882, Rockefeller Financial was incorporated in 1979 and registered with the SEC as an investment advisor in 1980. Today, Rockefeller Financial is still a private, independent company grounded by an objective advice-driven business model. Rockefeller's advantage lies in our history, innovation, integrity, and focus on obtaining the best results for our clients while putting our clients' unique requisites first. Indeed, with a client-to-employee ratio of 1 to 1.1, our "high touch" customer service is beyond compare.

At Rockefeller Financial, we view each client relationship as unique. Sometimes we provide a single service, but often we work with clients in a multifaceted and integrated relationship. We have the talent and resources available to tailor our services to your specific needs, including:

• Wealth Management — e.g., investment planning and advice, open architecture investment solutions, integrated tax, financial planning, administration, trusts and estates services, and reporting capabilities...
• Portfolio Management for Individuals and Institutions — e.g., portfolio management strategies, global sub-advisory, social responsible restrictions, access to institutional pricing and investment managers, and total portfolio performance measurement...
• Information Management — e.g., Rockit Solutions, LLC, collaboration with our clients' professional advisors, quarterly meetings, and conference calls as required...

Rona Kluger Consulting

Rona Kluger specializes in fundraising, grantwriting, evaluation and organizational development, including board development.

Strategic Business Alliance

Strategic Business Alliance has been helping nonprofit organizations develop projects and obtain grant funding for over 17 years. Our company prepares professional business plans and grant writing proposals for submission to state, federal, and private funding sources. In addition we prepare requests for feasibility funding for your organization to compile studies on project feasibility. We work with your organization on site selection, contractual estimates, and preparation of operational budgets to develop funding sources for your organization. Our company manages complete project development and will train your current staff in grant writing, research, and submission or grants if requested. A professional lobbyist is on staff for funding requests on projects that may need to be introduced into capital budgets for the state in which you are located or a project that requires significant political support to access funding sources.

Strategic Designs for Resource Development, Inc.

Strategic Designs for Resource Development, Inc., specializes in meeting the needs of small to midsize nonprofit organizations. We provide general fund-raising advice and counsel; foundation and government grant writing and research; special-events design and management; development audits and feasibility studies; capacity building for strategic fund raising; communication, editing and writing services; and staff training and board development. Each client receives the personal attention of the firm's principals, as well as custom-designed services and products to meet unique individual needs. Strategic Designs for Resource Development also offers a variety of online consulting packages through FundraisingOffice.com.

The Write Source, LLC

At The Write Source, we design winning grant proposals, not just write them. Since 1993, we have assisted over 200 nonprofit organizations in 23 states and the District of Columbia achieve their short-term and long-term grantseeking goals. Clients use our services for one reason: they want to win grants!

Think of The Write Source as your virtual grants office. We provide only grantseeking and writing services for nonprofit organizations. This sets us apart from other consulting firms that work in all areas of fundraising and nonprofit management. Our services include grant proposal planning and preparation, proposal review and critique, grantmaker research, grantseeking workshops, and promotional writing. We also provide exceptional training opportunities to help you, your board, volunteers, and others become successful grantseekers.

Let us help your organization obtain the grant funds it needs to succeed in fulfilling its mission. Choose to work with the right source, The Write Source. Visit our website at www.write-source.com.

WORTHINGTONAssociatesWORLDWIDE

Finding a niche in a crowded, fragmented market is one of the major challenges facing entrepreneurial nonprofit organizations today. In order to meet this challenge, nonprofit leaders must have a clear sense of the opportunities and obstacles that lie ahead and be in position to mobilize both staff and volunteers to meet them. Worthington Associates Worldwide helps organizations respond efficiently to the unique challenges confronting the nonprofit sector through a variety of services: Strategic Planning and Adaptive Marketing; Philanthropic Marketing; Marketing New Services, Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation; Corporate Sponsorship and Marketing of Ideas and Causes; Managing and Marketing Through Motivation; and Event Marketing. Our clients expect us to perform with the same level of professionalism, judgment, dedication, and knowledge that they would apply if they rendered the services themselves. Accordingly, we accept assignments only if we are convinced that we can satisfy our clients' needs. While our network of associates represents the sort of global coverage that one might expect to find with a much larger company, we provide the personal commitment and continuity that are the most desirable attributes of a "boutique" firm.

Weischadle & Weischadle

Weischadle & Weischadle is a legal services firm which provides clients with assistance in such areas as 501(c)(3) creation, contract review, proposal development, program planning, budgeting requirements, and fund raising for organizations seeking or receiving grants. The firm seeks to assist its clients in achieving their funding goals and meeting all legal requirements required by both private and public funding agencies. Working with professionals in the fields of education, healthcare, the media, and government, the firm assists its clients from the early stages of proposal development to the last stages of report writing. All initial consultations are conducted by one of the principals of the firm, Attorneys Douglas or David Weischadle, both of whom are members of the bars in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington, DC, the district courts in each domain, and the US Supreme Court.

Wolf, Keens & Co.

Wolf, Keens & Company is a management consulting firm with services devoted to nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and foundations. Services include: strategic planning, facility planning, board development, fund-raising assessment, financial analysis, and meeting facilitation. Since its founding in 1983, Wolf, Keens & Company consultants have assisted hundreds of client organizations and agencies in their efforts to manage growth, reinvent and restructure themselves, plan for the future, transform dreams into reality, find financial support for their activities, and assemble and analyze relevant data.

Woodwell | Lomangino

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The Woodwell | Lomangino team creates unique and compelling messages and materials for foundations and national nonprofits. From annual reports and other publications to Web content, site design and production, and marketing and fundraising materials, we have the expertise and the capabilities to guide your project from start to finish. We are:

You're doing important and powerful work. We'll help you tell the world about it.