Connected Philanthropy

Cynthia Adams | Founder and CEO| GrantStation.com, Inc.

Cynthia Adams has been dedicated to helping nonprofit organizations identify and secure the funding they need to do their good work for well over 45 years. Cynthia founded GrantStation because she believes that grantseeking requires a thorough understanding of the funders and sound knowledge of the philanthropic playing field. Her life's work has been to level that playing field, creating opportunities for all nonprofit organizations, regardless of size or geographic location, to secure grant support.

Cynthia also gives back to her community. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Northern Alaska Environmental Center as well as does volunteer work for numerous nonprofits, many of whom serve to protect Alaska's environment.

Links:

• https://grantstation.com/ 
• Cynthia’s email: [email protected]
• Creating Time webinar: https://grantstation.com/themes/custom/grantstation/courses/creatingtime/index.html#/  
• Cynthia’s Webinars: https://resources.foundant.com/authors/cynthia-adams 
• Contact Info:
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrantStation
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/YourFastTracktoFunding

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Darian Rodriguez Heyman | Facilitator, Fundraiser, Social Entrepreneur, and Author

Darian is an accomplished facilitator, fundraiser, social entrepreneur, and author. After co-founding, globally scaling, and ultimately selling Beyond Interactive, one of the first digital advertising agencies, he began his life’s work of “helping people help.” This started during his five-year tenure as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation, after which he was appointed as a Commissioner for the Environment in San Francisco, and authored the best-selling Nonprofit Fundraising 101 and edited the best-selling Nonprofit Management 101 (Wiley & Sons). In addition to his active consulting, facilitation, and public speaking work, Heyman currently serves as the part-time Executive Director of Numi Foundation, Editor-in-Chief of the popular nonprofit online magazine Blue Avocado, and Co-Producer of the GenderSmart Investing Summit.

Links:

• Nonprofit Management 101 
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dheyman 
• Blue Avacado: https://blueavocado.org/ 
• Contact Info:
• Darian Rodriguez Heyman [email protected] 
• Mobile:  (415) 637-5062
• Webinars:
• Building a Fundraising Board

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Amanda Day, GPC and Kimberly Hays de Muga, GPC are the cohosts of Fundraising HayDay, a podcast about grants and such. Together they bring over 50 years of grant, fundraising, project management, and “other duties as assigned” experience to the show. With episodes dropping every other Thursday, you’ll hear from industry experts about monthly giving, the art of storytelling, the power of social media, and so much more. Kimberly and Amanda have been known to lament about the need for change in our field, from ways to fix the application forms and online portals to moving towards trust-based funding.

Amanda has a background in local government, with a focus on federal and state grant writing and management; Kimberly is well-versed in foundation and corporate grant funding and fundraising, thanks to service in the human services field. They both serve on the Board of Directors for the Grant Professionals Association, have a fondness for tea, and are avid readers. Their similarities end when it comes to how they season their grits, and on some issues it’s okay to agree to disagree.

Links

• Fundraising HayDay Podcast: https://www.fundraisinghayday.com/ 
• Grant Professionals Association (GPA): https://grantprofessionals.org/default.aspx (look here for membership, annual grant conference and nominating grantmaker of the year)
• Leave anonymous feedback for funders at GrantAdvisor:: https://grantadvisor.org/  (#FixTheForm & #100FormsIn100Days efforts http://blog.grantadvisor.org/fixtheform/ )
• @NonprofitAF on Twitter and website: www.nonprofitAF.com
• National committee of responsive philanthropy (NCRP): https://www.ncrp.org/ 
• Community centric fundraising https://communitycentricfundraising.org/ 
• 2 book recommendations: 
• Decolonizing Wealth: https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Wealth-Indigenous-Divides-Restore/dp/1523097892
• Collecting Courage: https://www.amazon.com/Collecting-Courage-Pain-Freedom-Love/dp/1927375657/ 

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In this episode, we discuss the definition and broader view of what it means to be a grant professional.

Links:

• To learn more about The Grant Professionals Certification Institute visit their website here: https://www.grantcredential.org/
• attend an informational fireside on the evening of June 23rd: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvdOuvrjooH9S_cLjFTdsJcoa3NNflodeH

Julie Assel, GPC | asselgrantservices.com

• Twitter: @ACgrants
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Julie Assel, GPC, is the President/CEO and a Senior Writer for Assel Grant Services. Julie has a varied background in grant writing including writing for school districts of varying sizes, universities, and non-profit organizations. So far, she has written awarded grants totaling more than $145 million since 2003.

Her expertise is in federal level grants with the Department of Education, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, and the Environmental Protection Agency. At the state level, she has successfully written to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Higher Education, and the Missouri Technology Commission among others.

Julie earned the Grant Professional Certification (GPC) in January 2010 from the Grant Professionals Certification Institute. The GPC is a certification program that measures an individual’s ability to provide quality grant-related services within an ethical framework. Julie served as the President of the national Grant Professionals Certification Institute Board of Directors from 2018-2020 and is a current board member. She is the past President of the Heart of America GPA Chapter in the Kansas City area and past facilitator for the GPA Consultants Special Interest Group.

Prior to starting her own business in 2008, she worked as the Grant and Medical Writer/Quality Assurance Officer for Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies and the Coordinator of Grants and Special Projects for the Kansas City Missouri School District. She has also worked as the Grant Writer for KidsTLC (formerly TLC for Children and Families).

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Marc Pitman | concordleadershipgroup.com

Concord Leadership Group founder Marc A. Pitman, CSP® has been leading organizations and teams for decades. His failures and successes have caused him to study leadership for over 30 years, including earning a Masters in Organizational Leadership and certification as a FranklinCovey Coach. Combining his ongoing education with his own experience, Marc helps leaders lead their teams with more effectiveness and less stress. His latest book is The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be. He’s also the author of Ask Without Fear!® – which has been translated into Dutch, Polish, Spanish, and Mandarin. He’s also the executive director of TheNonprofitAcademy.com and a former Advisory Panel member of Rogare, a prestigious international fundraising think tank.

Marc’s expertise and enthusiasm engages audiences around the world both in person and with online presentations. And has caught the attention of media organizations as diverse as The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Real Simple, SUCCESS Magazine, NBC, Al Jazeera, and Fox News. Marc tweets regularly at @marcapitman.

Over the past 18 years, Marc’s organizational and leadership coaching and trainings have helped tens of thousands of nonprofits advance their missions, meet revenue goals, and improve the lives of their staff and supporters including clients like the Maine Public Broadcasting, Georgetown University, In Defense of Animals, Habitat for Humanity, Chabad on Campus, Islamic Relief USA, and the Association of the U.S. Army.

He is the husband to his best friend and the father of three amazing kids. And if you drive by him on the road, he’ll be singing 80’s tunes loud enough to embarrass his family!

Links:

Marc's new book: The Surprising Gift of Doubt: Use Uncertainty to Become the Exceptional Leader You Are Meant to Be

Connect on twitter @marcapitman

Increasing Influence - 9 types of stories to help you become more influential

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Ephraim Gopin | 1832communications.com

Over the last two decades, Ephraim has worn all the nonprofit hats. He has been a CEO, fundraiser, event organizer, alumni director, grant writer, marketing director and more. Ephraim also served as global communications director for an international family foundation, giving him a chance to see how things look from the other side of the table.

Three years ago Ephraim founded 1832 Communications, an agency which helps nonprofits use smart and effective marketing to build relationships with donors and raise more money. 1832 partners with nonprofits to advance their fundraising efforts by upgrading their website and digital presence, boosting their email marketing apparatus and improving their marketing and fundraising collateral. 

Ephraim is the publisher of the popular daily e-newsletter Your Daily Dose of Nonprofit. He is also the host of the Your Weekly Dose of Nonprofit podcast.

Ephraim is always happy to connect with nonprofit pros on Twitter and LinkedIn. In his spare time, Ephraim is a new recipe cooker, 80s pop music master, a vocal and lifelong fan of Boston sports teams, a puzzle doer and a Looney Tunes lover. Ephraim is the proud father of three young adults, all of whom enjoy road trips with their dad but disapprove of how he takes selfies.  

Resources:

Employee Giving Ebook

Your Weekly Dose Of Nonprofit Podcast

Your Weekly Dose Of Nonprofit Newsletter

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As we enter a new year, COVID continues to change how we serve students and donors. More students are seeking scholarship deferrals to take gap years or attend community colleges. There is also an increase in non-traditional scholarship applicants as many students return to complete college or decide to delay college. How we manage and communicate these changes to students and donors will be critical in delivering stable funding for students in the future. Listen to this Coffee Talk to hear how others are successfully navigating through these changes.

Topics:

• What is your current scholarship deferral policy? Has it changed in the past year?
• How are you managing donor funding expectations as it relates to deferrals?
• How do you handle scholarships for students taking gap years?
• Are you seeing a decline in scholarship applications? How is this impacting funding?
• Are you seeing an increase in scholarship applications for non-traditional students?

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Barbara Floersch | barbarafloersch.com

Barbara has over 40 years' experience managing nonprofits, writing grant proposals, and administering grants. She has raised millions of dollars in grant funding, served as a reviewer for federal grant competitions, trained thousands of nonprofit staff members throughout the US and internationally, and has testified before Congress on the reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Floersch was a trainer for the Grantsmanship Center from 2000 to 2021 and served as the Center's Chief of Training and Curriculum for 12 years until her retirement in January of 2021. She has published hundreds of articles, has been a regular contributor to the NonProfit Times, and is the author of Grantsmanship: Program Planning & Proposal Writing, the updated, expanded edition of Norton Kiritz's seminal work in the field.

Barbara's new book, You Have A Hammer: Building Grant Proposals for Social Change, was released January 26, 2021 and is available at Amazon and other sites where books are sold. Her new website includes information on her books, a blog, and links to grant-related resources.

Barbara plans to write and speak about topics in which she has a special interest, and will begin offering a newsletter in February 2021. To learn more, purchase her new book, and sign up for her new newsletter, visit Barbarafloersch.com

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Grantmakers and the organizations they fund are partners. Grants provide the fuel, nonprofits provide the muscle, and together, funders and grantees pursue common goals.

Listen to tips of the trade and straight-forward advice on a proactive approach to developing long-term partnerships with funders.

Topics:

• What motivates funders to make grants
• A thorough, methodical approach to finding funders that are a good fit for your work
• How to turn your funder research into a powerful, flexible plan of action

Speaker:

Barbara Floersch | Chief of Training & Curriculum for The Grantsmanship Center

Barbara has more than 35 years of experience in nonprofit management, grant proposal writing, grants administration, and nonprofit consulting. She has secured tens of millions of dollars in federal, state, and foundation grants; taught hundreds of seminars and classes at conferences, at colleges, and for nonprofit organizations; testified before the United States Congress on the reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts; published numerous articles on grant proposal writing and other, related topics; and served as an expert reviewer in many federal grant competitions for the Department of Education, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the Family and Youth Services Bureau Barbara is author of Grantsmanship: Program Planning & Proposal Writing, the updated version of Norton Kiritz's seminal work which has guided grantseekers for nearly 50 years. She is also a regular contributor to The Nonprofit Times. Barbara has been a senior trainer for The Grantsmanship Center since 2000 and has delivered training programs throughout the United States and internationally.

To learn more about The Grantsmanship Center training and publications, please visit https://www.tgci.com/. And visit: https://www.tgci.com/training/webinar to see upcoming webinars from The Grantsmanship Center.

Find resources mentioned in the episode HERE

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As scholarship providers, we balance the needs/wants of many different groups. Donors want one thing, students need another, and we as administrators have our own preferences. Common/Universal Applications are a big topic in simplification, as are automated check-ins. In this episode, we walk through what we have heard, what we have experienced, and what we see as the pros and cons.

Topics:

• Common/Universal Applications
• Creative ways to connect with donors after award selection
• Getting information from students after award selection

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