Services
Grant Research + Prospecting
We can help you navigate the sea of endless funding opportunities and find those that best align with your organization’s mission. Using our connections, access to funder databases, and our experience, we can create:
A grants calendar built just for your organization
A project plan targeting those grants you have the highest probability of receiving
Grant Writing
We’re all about the most efficient approach to grant writing—creating language that resonates with funders and achieves your goals. We meet you wherever you are in the grants process. If you’re new to grants, we’ll start by developing templates based on the questions that funders usually ask helping you to apply for more grants in less time.
We specialize in writing grants for non-profit and public sector organizations and will help you to develop a diversified portfolio that can include:
Foundation grants
Corporate funding
Government grants from the municipal to the federal level
relationship building
A grant application can only take your organization so far with a foundation. We’ll work with you to understand how to build effective relationships with funders that not only benefit your organization but can help a foundation or donor extend their reach in your community. While there’s no right way to build a relationship, we can walk you through:
Making the first contact with a potential funder
Moving a foundation through the pipeline from first time to multi-year grants
Understanding a foundation’s communication needs
Training
Our team has extensive experience developing and facilitating training that is useful and relevant to nonprofit organizations. Here’s just a few of our current offerings:
Developing a fundraising team
Becoming grants ready (for small organizations, or those new to grants)
Grant writing 101
Strategic planning
Creating a grant management system
With our Jane-of-All-Trades background, we can also create a training that’s tailored to the needs of your board or staff.
Strategic Communications
At Keri McDonald Consulting, we can help you translate your policies into effective practice, and more importantly, make sure everyone understands each other. Some examples of our communications work include:
Clergy, CASA and Community— a statewide volunteer recruitment effort designed to help CASA programs effectively partner with the faith community.
The Art of Recruitment: Engaging with Volunteers who OWN Your Mission—a CASA volunteer recruitment guidebook designed collaboratively with CASA program leadership.
“Keri McDonald Consulting has been a joy to work with and has become a member of our family. Keri is attentive to our needs, communicates effectively, and delivers reliable results to grow our revenue. Keri is in a league of her own and her work ethic speaks for itself.”