Join the Freelance Grant Writer Academy and Get another Income Stream by Offering Nonprofit Strategic Planning to your Clients.

JOIN THE ACADEMY TO LEARN STRATEGIC PLANNING
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This is for You, if:

  • You are a freelance grant writer

  • You are a nonprofit consultant

  • You are thinking about becoming a freelance grant writer or nonprofit consultant

And You Want To:

  • Learn how to help nonprofits in a well-rounded way to get and sustain funding. Because if they don’t understand their goals it will be a 24/7 cycle of frustration – even if you are writing grants for them.

  • You know that being able to drive forward the entire mission (with a plan) for a nonprofit will help you write more effective grants. Plus, this strategy will help them STOP being a toxic nonprofit and focus on incorporating their staff in healthy ways.

  • You will have longer-term nonprofit clients when you offer strategic planning because you will get buy in from the board and you will help them with overall strategies to increase funding for their mission and your long-term contract!

  • You want to add another stream of income (in addition to grant writing) to your services.

But the problem is that you don’t really know where to start with strategic planning.

  • You don’t really know where to begin and have massive imposter syndrome around offering this service.

  • You wonder if this is just a shiny penny to chase. To avoid that, you want and need short tutorials with templates that you can accomplish in a day-long retreat or throughout board meetings.

  • You want support on knowing how to price and offer strategic planning as a service.

OVERALL, NONPROFIT STRATEGIC PLANNING HELPS FREELANCERS & CONSULTANTS:

  • To Feel Confident When Facilitating the Planning

  • To Increase Your Revenue Streams. You can earn anywhere between $2,500 – $10,000+ to conduct Strategic Planning (we share how to price).

  • To Feel and Be Financially Stable in Your Freelance Grant Writing Business by Offering Strategic Planning when the Grant Writing Season is Slow.

  • To Incorporate Nonprofit Strategic Planning as Part of Your Onboarding in Your Packages / Retainer Contracts.

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About Holly Rustick, CEO of Grant Writing & Funding

Holly Rustick is a world-renowned grant writing expert and Amazon bestselling author and has been serving nonprofits with grant writing and strategic planning for two decades.

Since 2017, Holly has been coaching grant writers to replace their full-time income while working part-time from home as a freelance grant writer or nonprofit consultant.

With two decades of grant writing and nonprofit experience, Holly is a popular keynote speaker for events all over the world,  podcast host of the Top-Ranked Grant Writing podcast, a former university instructor, and is past president of the Guam Women’s Chamber of Commerce.  She is constantly booked out to run trainings to help grant writers grow capacity, increase funding, and advance mission.

What Makes the Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master Course Different?

#1: It’s Simple

If you have a myriad of content you are trying to learn from (i.e., random YouTube videos, etc.) you are going to feel disjointed and things (links) are going to get lost.

The Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master Course is a simple system designed to help freelance grant writers and nonprofit consultants facilitate strategic planning for nonprofits.

You get the right workbooks and templates that you need to share with nonprofits so that you are professional, and they can walk away with a clear plan in hand.

Plus, it is only offered inside our group coaching programs so that you get support and coaching on how to facilitate and price your strategic planning services.

#2: It Helps You Win Grants

We give you everything you need to ensure the nonprofits you work with to increase their funding in holistic ways, including how to identify current capacity and identify the BEST goals for nonprofits.

By doing strategic planning, in collaboration with grant writing, will help you get real buy-in from the board and executive staff on what types of grants to submit. This eliminates “chasing the money” and “mission creeping,” therefore you write the most targeted grants.

This process will help you secure more grants because you can refer to the strategic plan and stop wasting time on writing grants that don’t make sense for the nonprofit. 

This is not a generic “just ask for more funding” kind of course. Holly has created a system so you can confidently help nonprofits with an overall goal and funding strategy so they stop living in overwhelm, everyone gets on the same page, and creates a sense of responsibility from the nonprofit in their funding strategy (i.e., even if a grant gets denied it no longer just falls on the freelancers shoulders).

#3: It Creates Another Stream of Income for Your Business

Having another service is important when the grant season is slow.

We show you to incorporate strategic planning as a one-off package offering or as part of your onboarding. We also help you with pricing.

The Nonprofit Strategic Planning Course is only offered inside the Freelance Grant Writer Academy and the Grant Professional Mentorship group programs.

What You Learn about Nonprofit Strategic Planning inside the Freelance Grant Writer Academy

10 video modules with worksheets and templates to walk you through your entire productivity plan in less than 3 hours.

Module One: Set Your Mindset & Schedule

You will get directions on how to set up a strategic planning day for a nonprofit. Plus, we give you facilitation instructions where you don’t have be ‘on display’ all day. Even if you are an introvert, you will be able to know how to facilitate the actual planning without having to be an extravert. The icebreaker exercise alone will drive participation from the nonprofit throughout the entire process.

Module Two: Conduct a SWOT Analysis

This is not just brainstorming your strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threat. This is an action SWOT, where Holly shows you how you can efficiently conduct a SWOT analysis to effectively guide a nonprofit. This will also drive forward a lot of participation from the nonprofit.

Module Three: Create the Best Mission and Vision Statements

We show you how to walk a nonprofit through creating (or reviewing) the best mission and vision statements for their nonprofit (even if they already have one). This will ensure that the nonprofit is always on task with creating the right grant projects that drive their mission forward. And if you ever feel like a nonprofit is mission drifting or chasing the money when it comes to future grants, bring them back to this discussion.

Module Four: Define Your Target Demographic and Conduct a Needs & Strengths Assessment

Merely believing a nonprofit knows what their target demographic is, is not good enough. You will get the tools and strategies to help a nonprofit define their target demographic which is vital for your grant writing. 

Module Five: Apply Resource Mapping to Increase Funding

We coach you on exactly how to create a system with nonprofits so that they can track their funding and increase funding with Monetary Resources and In-kind Resources. This will help the nonprofit understand how to come up with matching funds for a grant or how to pay for your services and other general operating funds they need.

Module Six: Define Goals, Objectives, & Activities

We show you how to create goals, SMART objectives, and activities through timetables for the operations of the nonprofit. The nonprofit will bring this plan you bring to their weekly staff meetings to ensure they are meeting progress on all efforts! No more of the ‘who was supposed to do what and when’ syndrome. And it’s not all on the freelancers shoulders! This creates buy-in from the entire nonprofit.

Module Seven: Prioritize a Nonprofit's Projects

No more chasing the money with projects that fizzle out as soon as the funding ends. You will get the best tips, systems, and advice to move the needle forward for a nonprofit AND you will all be on the same page with which grant projects to start with. No more confusion across the board/staff/consultant with which program is a priority. Plus, you get a working excel budget!

Module Eight: Conduct Contingency Planning & Create a Logic Model

Every successful freelance grant writer knows that contingencies are necessary! If something may not work, you identify it and create a solution and a sustainability plan. Nine times out of ten, these are required in grants! Plus, a logic model is a great resource to look at your projects in a snapshot view. But logic models can be SO overwhelming. Well, not this one. Let’s complete a logic model – not just for a grant program – but for the entire operation’s of a nonprofit.

Module Nine: Develop Strategic Data Management Tracking

  • A nonprofit may be working on a million projects, but what data are they collecting?
  • Is any of the tremendous effort that the staff puts into running nonprofit and running projects even being captured?

Chances are, that is a big fat ‘no’. So many nonprofits that freelance grant writers work with are doing amazing things, but never capture those amazing things! With this module, you WILL have a clear system (and excel sheets) to show nonprofits how to capture all the amazing things their nonprofit is doing.

This creates data for your grant proposals for that nonprofit that will help you WIN grants, create credibility with the nonprofit’s beneficiaries and community, the nonprofit can publish it on their website, have social media content, and get more corporate sponsors!

Module Ten: Schedule Your Nonprofit's Calendar

  • Does the nonprofit have a calendar for the year?
  • Do they know when and why they are doing each and every activity?
  • Are they sure that each event won’t collide with another event in their community?
  • Are their quarters broken up into tangible steps to reach each goal?

Maybe they keep missing that same grant deadline again this year because they just don’t have their timelines or priorities in order.

The Nonprofit Strategic Planning Course will teach you how to ensure that the nonprofit gets all their ducks in a row and have the most effective and BEST year ever for the nonprofit.

More Results of Happy Customers

How Will This Help Freelance Grant Writers

You will:

  • gain an additional stream of income,
  • increase your grant writing success,
  • create longer-term relationships with nonprofits,
  • become confident in facilitating nonprofit planning, and
  • increase your reputation and credibility in your community.

FAQs

The Nonprofit Strategic Planning Course is inside our signature group coaching programs, the Freelance Grant Writer Academy and the Grant Professional Mentorship.

This is no longer available as a stand-alone course.

If you do purchase the Nonprofit Strategic Planning Course before Nov. 27th, 2023, then you will have access for 12 months to the course.

Once you join the Freelance Grant Writer Academy or Grant Professional Mentorship, you will have access to all modules (videos and templates) of the Nonprofit Strategic Planning Master Course.

You will also get coaching inside the group coaching program on how to price, offer, or facilitate strategic planning.

You get access to the Nonprofit Strategic Planning Course while you are enrolled inside our 12-month group coaching programs.

Each of the 10 modules includes sub-lessons with a video for each sub-lesson.

These sub-lesson videos are, on average, 8 minutes long. You can learn how to facilitate strategic planning within 3 hours. Implementing the strategic planning with  your nonprofit clients can be done in 1 day, over a few days, or by adding time onto board meetings. Inside the group coaching program, you can get feedback and coaching on what the best type of facilitation and pricing is for your clients.

Absolutely! As long as you have internet you can access the course!

One thing to mention is that this course is geared more towards running a nonprofit in the United States, but the techniques and process supersedes geographic location.

Overall, our freelance grant writers live all over the world and have been able to assist nonprofits in different countries.

Here at Grant Writing & Funding we have a no refund policy. Holly cares about the success of each and everyone of her students. She also cares about value of respecting one another’s time.

She encourages you to take the time to read the sales page and email her ([email protected]) if you have any questions. This course is incorporate into our group coaching programs and cannot be bought as a stand-alone course.

We are here to help if you need any assistance before and after joining the course.