Full-Service Fund Development

Lydia Sierra Consulting enhances the capacity of nonprofit organizations to achieve sustainable growth and increased impact.

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Young Urban Christians & Artists, Inc.

How We Can Help

One-on-One Coaching

LSC founder Lydia Sierra offers customized one-on-one coaching to help you activate your team, build your networks, and facilitate growth. This tailored service focuses on improving your management and operational skills, while providing the accountability and support necessary to achieve your goals and serve the community you love.

Fund Development

LSC’s full-service approach provides the support of an entire development department. Our comprehensive services will help you become grant ready, develop strong proposal materials, identify achievable funding prospects, submit winning proposals, manage a portfolio of grant contracts, and cultivate long-term relationships with funders.

Grant Research

We offer in-depth, targeted research to help clients build successful funding plans for future growth. After learning about an organization’s vision and funding priorities, we perform in-depth grant research, utilizing a variety of modalities and subscription-only databases to identify attainable funding prospects and help create a successful annual grant calendar.

Monitoring & Evaluation

LSC’s M&E experts will help you measure, analyze, understand, and report on your organization’s impact. We provide a complete assessment of your reporting needs, identify key metrics, and develop data-gathering tools and systems to increase response rates and reduce the burden on your program staff. Our collaborative approach is functional, adaptable, and effective because it facilitates staff and community engagement to build consensus around M&E systems.

Salesforce Customization

A customized Salesforce system can help you improve outcomes, productivity, reach, revenue, and more. Our Salesforce experts have deep experience designing database infrastructure that will improve your capacity to manage grants and individual donors, plan fundraising strategies, streamline data collection and reporting, track contract deliverables, and improve workflow and efficiency.

Capacity Building

LSC’s Capacity Building Institute comprises a six-month curriculum of organizational development workshops designed to help small grassroots organizations build their organizational capacity, establish strong internal systems, and implement effective programs that have a major impact on their communities.

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A true value to any organization

“​As a truly grassroots CBO without any previous experience running an organization or nonprofit it was vital for us to connect with someone who could help us navigate through the maze of capacity building. Since the first day with my organization, Lydia has opened up to us and helped above and beyond what we even expected.
Even though we are based out of San Diego, California and she is located on the other side of the country from us there was never any complications in communication or accomplishing assignments. It honestly never even felt like we were thousands of miles away in completely different time zones.
Lydia and her team are a true value to any organization. We highly recommend her to all. No matter where you are based in this world.”
Armand King
Chief Program Officer
Paving Great Futures, San Diego, CA

A treasured member of our community

“​​We have been working with Lydia Sierra Consulting for three years now, and in that time we’ve secured a variety of new funders and strengthened our financial stability, but Lydia offers rare value beyond a healthy, growing budget. She is a unique consultant in that she offers a truly personal contribution to our mission. It was critical to have our Fund Development Manager sit in on our recent Board retreat, and Lydia made the time to be there. The trust she’s cultivated with our staff, leadership, and Board, through her dedicated work and heartfelt commitment, make her a very important component to our success and a treasured member of our community.” 
David Shuffler
Executive Director
Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice

THANK YOU!

“Working with Lydia Sierra Consulting gave us a clearer work path to manage, organize, and prioritize grant opportunities that were specific to our mission, vision, and strategic plan as an organization. The team listened intentionally and proactively made recommendations for other resources that could benefit new and existing programming. Leading a BIPOC organization in a community with limited essential services, many times it’s hard to pivot time to grant research effectively. Lydia Serria Consulting understood us and gave us an action plan to affirm the great work we’re doing. On behalf of FB Community Land Trust Board, Members, Staff, and Community…THANK YOU!”
Brandi Barret
Director of Operations
Fruit Belt Community Land Trust

Impactful services

“Lydia Sierra Consulting was instrumental in helping us strengthen our organizational capacity to deliver impactful services, attract funders, and successfully manage operations.”
William Acevedo
Founder & Executive Director of YUCA, Inc

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