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How to Set Your 2024 Consulting Business Goals
How are your 2024 business goals going? We may only be one month into the year, but here at Funding for Good, we’re a goal-driven business. And we use research-backed methods to set and achieve our goals. Research shows that setting goals is powerful stuff....
Consulting Business Administrative Checklist
Do you have all the administrative pieces covered for your consulting business? It’s easy to get caught up in finding clients, figuring out your services, and choosing the perfect business name. But when it comes to running a successful consulting business,...
Free Grant Research Tools You May Not Know About
Grant research tools have become big business over the last two decades. Today, there are several competing paid databases you can subscribe to. But not everyone has the budget to spend on a database and a staff member to navigate it. That’s where free grant research...
Do Nonprofit Consultants Need Insurance?
In a recent coffee chat over at The Hive, the question of business insurance came up. Which nonprofit consultants need insurance and why? During the conversation, our informal survey revealed most consultants don’t have business-specific insurance coverage. To...
Your Consulting Email Signature – What to Include and Why
A few weeks ago, I was trying to get in touch with a client who had prepaid for a service. When two emails got no response, I pulled up the client’s email signature in my inbox to find a phone number or other contact information. Instead, the email signature...
Leveraging Grant Funding to Build Capacity
When setting out to build organizational capacity, one of the first challenges nonprofit leaders face is how to pay for it. In the long run, added capacity often pays for itself—whether through greater impact, efficiency, or direct fundraising capacity. But in...
5 Must-Haves for Your Consulting Business Website
Most nonprofit consultants find their first clients before they have a website. Many of us also start consulting before we even have a business name! But eventually, most consultants need a business name and a website. Think of your website as your digital...
How to Raise Your Consulting Rates
Are you raising your rates in 2024? Are you nervous about communicating the changes to current clients? As a nonprofit consultant, one of the biggest factors in achieving your business goals is finding the right pricing for your services. And many of us start...
Project Research Success: 9 Expert Grant Research Tips
Grant research is not as simple as sitting down and searching for one keyword, phrase, or type of funding. Just like grant writing is not as simple as sitting down and putting words on paper.
Pro Tips for Successful Direct Mail Campaigns
When it comes to small-dollar nonprofit donors, fundraisers are spending more time than ever developing online giving campaigns. But we’re here to remind you not to forget about direct mail. Old-fashioned postal mail is one of the most direct ways to reach your...
Creating A Consulting Business Budget – Checklist
Have you started your 2024 consulting business budget yet? To give you a head start, I’ve gathered some of my top nonprofit consultant budgeting tips. Below are the six key categories where you should be budgeting for as a consultant—and where investments can...
5 Pro Tips for Pricing Your Consulting Services
As small business owners, nonprofit consultants spend a lot of time and energy landing clients. But we tend to spend far less time on two equally critical areas of business development: defining our services and setting our prices. Today, I want to delve into...
4 Easy Steps to Retain Giving Tuesday Donors
For the last decade, nonprofit fundraisers have spent each November preparing for Giving Tuesday. We write emails and social media posts. We get major donors to offer matching grants and gifts. We create graphics and carefully crafted descriptions of our...
Research-Backed Strategies to Increase Consulting Success
Does it ever feel like you’re treading water trying to get your consulting business where you want it? You know, with a roster of great clients, meaningful work, and steady cash flow? If so, you're not alone. When it comes to running your own consulting...
How to Solve Nonprofit Capacity Gaps Without Breaking the Budget
Almost every nonprofit we’ve worked with over the last decade has struggled with capacity gaps. There are so many community needs and never enough staff to meet the demand. Organizations bounce from one all-hands-on-deck crisis to the next, seldom able to carve...
Online Fundraising Trends – What to Know for 2024
Over the last decade, online fundraising has transformed. As a nonprofit fundraiser, it’s easy to feel like you’re in a constant game of catch-up. What are the top ways to give online? Should my nonprofit invest in text-to-give tools? How can I keep my online...
The 10 Main Responsibilities of a Nonprofit Executive Director
This article is by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting. While the nonprofit sector is incredibly diverse in how we operate, there is one key position nearly every staffed organization needs: the nonprofit Executive Director or CEO. Unfortunately, many...
Grant Writing Tips: 8 Lessons I Learned the Hard Way (So You Don’t Have To)
Here at Funding for Good, our team has decades of experience writing grants. Combined, we’ve written hundreds (maybe thousands) of grant proposals and raised hundreds of millions of dollars. And along the way, we’ve learned a lot of lessons about grant writing....
What Is Project Based Pricing – and Should You Use It?
Are you ready to transition from hourly pricing to project-based pricing? Learn the benefits and how to make the change. When most nonprofit consultants launch their businesses, they often start out charging hourly rates. Those rates can vary significantly...
Email Marketing Tips for Nonprofits and Consultants
A few weeks ago one of our Nonprofit Consulting Boot Camp clients asked me how to know when to send out his newsletter, or other e-communications. I also need to know this for the clients I support with Development Coaching because as we add or grow direct mail...
The Value of High-Impact Partnerships
In the nonprofit world, we talk a lot about partnerships. Funders want to know grantees are working together. Organizations want to avoid duplicating efforts. And leaders know that partnerships often make smart business sense. Unfortunately, too many partnerships fail...
