This episode, Marie Palacios explains the intersection of strategic planning and grant writing, the preparation you need to do before writing a grant proposal, and what grant donors want to see in nonprofits.

Marie Palacios is the Lead Consultant for Funding for Good, an expert facilitator, and is certified by The Institute of Cultural Affairs in the USA in evidence-based facilitation practices.

In this episode, Marie explains what to include in a grant proposal’s strategic planning document, who should be involved with the strategic planning process, and how to fund the strategic planning process.

She also talks about how to provide more services and deliverables for the nonprofits you work with, and the core reasons to run a nonprofit consultancy business.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

• The core reasons to run a nonprofit consultancy business.
• How to provide more services and deliverables for the nonprofits you work with.
• The intersection of strategic planning and grant writing.
• The preparation you need to do before writing a grant proposal.
• What grant donors want to see in nonprofits.
• How to fund a grant proposal’s strategic planning process.
• Who should be involved with the strategic planning process.
• What to include in a grant proposal’s strategic planning document.

About Marie Palacios

Marie Palacios, Lead Consultant for Funding for Good, is an expert facilitator, certified by The Institute of Cultural Affairs in the USA in evidence-based facilitation practices known as the ToP Method. She combines proven facilitation methods and her passion for community to facilitate dynamic and productive meetings. Marie enjoys facilitating community organizing, advocacy, consensus building, and action planning workshops for diverse organizations across the nation.

Over the past two decades, Marie has worn every hat imaginable in the nonprofit world: volunteer, board member, program director, executive director, and development consultant. Her nonprofit specialties include strategic planning facilitation, program design, board development, grant writing, and messaging.

Connect with Marie:

• LinkedIn

Quotables:

• “A nonprofit is a business it’s just tax-exempt so why would we not expect to have a strategic plan or a business plan? Why would we not be reporting on our successes?”
• “If you’re a grant writer being able to say there is a strategic plan allows them to know that grant proposal’s going to be more successful.”
• “If you’re working with clients that don’t currently have a strategic plan consider making that grant proposal the first.”

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Nonprofit Consulting Conference 2024
• Grant Professionals Pricing Survey Results & Brainstorming Sessions
• Funding For Good
• Increasing Prices with Streamlined Processes for Freelance Grant Writers
• Why AI Won’t Take Your Grant Writing Job
• Growing your Nonprofit Consultancy Practice
• Grant Easy Management Software

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