Resources for Growing
Explore our many blog resources on board development, grant research and writing, leadership development, fundraising, budgeting, and much more.
Crafting a Stellar Nonprofit Vision and Mission Statement
In our work with hundreds of nonprofits, we've found that having a strong vision and mission statement results in smarter decision-making, easier marketing, and greater alignment across leadership, staff, and other stakeholders. Research backs this up. Our...
Increase Direct Mail Success with Segmenting
In an increasingly crowded digital environment—with email, social media, and messaging apps vying for our attention—direct mail has a unique ability to capture our attention. But not all direct mail campaigns are created equal. When you combine direct mail and donor...
5 Must-Haves for Your Consulting Business Website
Most nonprofit consultants find their first clients before they have a website. But if you want to grow beyond close referrals or expand your service offerings, you will eventually need a website for your consulting business. Today, websites are like digital business...
Tips to Get More Ideal Consulting Clients
What makes a consulting client great vs frustrating? How can you land more ideal clients (and less nightmare ones)? Spoiler: The difference between ideal clients and less-than-ideal clients is about more than just how much you’re paid and the planned scope of...
How to Build a Career in Nonprofit Development and Fundraising
Pretty much everyone in the nonprofit sector is looking to raise more money. But few people actually dedicate their careers to nonprofit fundraising and development. That’s where development professionals come in. Here at Funding for Good, most of our team...
What to Include in a Consulting Scope of Work
Developing a clear and well-structured consulting scope of work is essential to landing new clients. But preparing that winning scope of work isn’t always straightforward, especially for newer consultants. You need to know what to include, what to leave out,...
Why to Hire a Consultant for Strategic Planning
Are you weighing whether to hire a consultant for your organization’s strategic planning process? When you decide to undertake a strategic plan for your organization, it’s tempting to consider doing it yourself. You might wonder: Why not save money on those...
Talking to Program Officers About Sustainable Grant Funding
When it comes to sustainability for your nonprofit, some grants are better than others. New grantseekers are often afraid to ask for changes to their grants for fear of jeopardizing grant approval. But you don’t have to ask for more grant dollars to make your...
What Are Evaluation Methods?
Evaluation methods are the criteria for evaluating the success of a program or project.
LinkedIn Tips for Nonprofit Consultants
“I know I should be doing more with LinkedIn.” This is such a common sentiment among the nonprofit consultants we coach. We all know LinkedIn can be an incredible tool for building an audience and attracting clients. But we get stuck at the HOW. What matters...
What It Means to Scale Your Business
Among nonprofit consultants and small businesses, the term “scaling up” gets used a lot. But what exactly does it mean to scale up your business? And how can it help you? Scaling vs Growing Your Consulting Business First off, let’s distinguish between growing...
Nonprofit and Corporate Partnerships: How to Get Started
For today’s nonprofits, relying on a mix of funding sources isn’t just a good idea; it’s essential. Many organizations do a great job with individual donors and grants, yet too often, corporate partnerships are left on the back burner, treated as a potential...
Nonprofit Budgeting: How to Fully Fund Your Overhead
Nonprofit budgeting can feel like an endless project. That’s because nonprofits don’t just create a single annual operating budget. Instead, we have: Annual operating budgets Program and project budgets Grant budgets Overhead rate calculations Budget narratives...
Nonprofit Fundraising Trends for 2026
Nonprofit fundraising in 2025 has been a rollercoaster. To help make sense of what the highs, lows, and curveballs mean for our sector in 2026, we rounded up the latest research on nonprofit fundraising. Here are some top takeaways from nonprofit fundraising...
Creating a Consulting Business Budget – Checklist
I love the feeling of starting a new year as a business owner. It’s a moment for reflection, gratitude, and goal setting. It’s also the perfect time to sit down and refine one last piece of annual planning: your consulting business budget. Sure, budgeting...
Consulting Business Administrative Checklist
When you’re starting a consulting business, it’s easy to get caught up in finding clients, figuring out your services, and choosing the perfect business name. But after 15+ years of running my own consulting business and coaching 200+ nonprofit consultants,...
Improve Your Consulting Website with Data-Driven Insights
The way people are consuming content online is changing. And yes, we chose to use the word “consuming” on purpose—because that’s how most people engage with websites, including yours. When someone lands on a website in 2025, they aren’t there to read. Your...
Wow Funders with a Great Grant Report
How do you write a great grant report, especially in a year like 2025 that has been full of challenges for the nonprofit sector? Grant reporting often feels like an afterthought for many nonprofits. Writing grant reports can be time-consuming, frustrating, and...
3 Ways to Build Your Consulting Email List
Building an email list from scratch as a consultant can feel daunting. I know, because I’ve been there! But the benefits of list building are many. It’s a way to cultivate client prospects, stay on clients’ radars, demonstrate your expertise and value-add, and even...
How to Choose a Consulting Business Name
One of the most exciting parts of launching a nonprofit consulting business is choosing a name. With a business name (and accompanying logo), you declare to the world who you are and what you do—and that you’re officially open for business. But finding the right...
Cultivating Culture in a Remote Workforce
If you’re an organizational leader, you’ve likely heard the quote: "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." But what happens when culture doesn’t exist in the traditional sense—between people gathering—but rather across bits of data transmitted from laptops and cell...