Other Services
Family Philanthropy Consultation
In addition to grant management and strategic funding objectives, funders often grapple with multi-generational issues. Let us guide your board and family members to enjoy the fruits of your family philanthropy through consultation and conversation. Activities that family funders appreciate include:
- Junior-board member development and training
- Facilitate senior advisor roles
- Design meetings for succession planning and participation
- Assist with ongoing transition activities as requested
Communication and PR Campaigns
You may want to share good results with a broad community, or tailor messages for smaller groups. Regardless of size or scope, we have got you covered. Some ways we can help inform and inspire:
- Write and produce most any form of print material including annual reports, publications, white papers, invitations, announcements and brochures.
- Coordinate internal communications such as concise grant summaries, comprehensive policy and procedure documents, and board memos.
- Secure favorable publicity for foundation and grant recipients by creating press releases, cultivating media relations, and coordinating press conferences, resulting in print, radio and television coverage.
- Comfortable public speaker and program leader and can speak on a variety of topics.
Grant “How To” Workshops
Experience training that sticks, either in person or via webinar. Workshops and online training are both educational and interactive, always allowing for a informative Q & A session. Appropriate for nonprofit managers and staff, philanthropy conference attendees and community leaders that want to understand approaches to funding and grantmaking tips. Training will deliver approved outline and slide presentation, promotional verbiage and evaluation. Sample topics include:
- Grant Writing 101
- Federal Grants Primer
- Key Tips on Successful Grant Writing
- Customized training for your team
MAGGIE'S FAVORITE QUOTES:
"As the purse is emptied the heart is filled."
Victor Hugo
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad."
Abraham Lincoln
"It's better to tell your money where to go than to ask where it went."
Farmer's Gazette
“It is the imagination that lights the slow fuse of the possible.”
Emily Dickinson
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
John Muir
“Think broadly, but give narrowly.”
Elizabeth J. McCormack
"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
Mother Teresa
“Work is love made visible.”
Kahlil Gibron
"No one need wait a single moment to improve the world."
Anne Frank
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”
Albert Einstein
"It is in giving that we receive."
Francis of Assisi
"It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place."
Andrew Carnegie
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville
“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
Helen Keller
“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”
Benjamin Disraeli
"The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Always do right. That will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
Mark Twain
“What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but co-workers.”
Linda & Millard Fuller
"Most people think that Americans are generous because we are rich. The truth is that we are rich, in significant part, because we are generous."
Claire Gaudiani
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."