Do You Know Your Impact?

Do You Know Your Impact?

Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Can Better Help You Understand Your Organization’s Impact Your organization is mission-driven and without a doubt, making a positive impact in your community. But can you point to clear metrics when asked how your organization is doing and how you’re making a difference? Do you know your funder’s priorities and how…

Salesforce Customization Creates a Powerful Fund Development Tool

Salesforce Customization Creates a Powerful Fund Development Tool

Among the many services Lydia Sierra Consulting (LSC) offers, one of our most impactful is Salesforce customization. Salesforce is a powerful tool to help you manage your fund development systems to meet revenue goals. When structured properly, a customized Salesforce system will allow you to operate effectively, raise funds, and connect with constituents.  Your organization…

Act Now to Work With My Team on Your Next Capacity Building Project!

Act Now to Work With My Team on Your Next Capacity Building Project!

Dear Friends of New York City, Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund (CCNSF), an initiative of the City of New York, has announced its call for applications for grants of up to $45,000 for Black, Latino, and Asian-led community organizations based throughout the city with budgets between $150,000 and $2 million. Qualified organizations are able to use this…

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

If you’ve worked for non profit organizations, chances are you have been part of some form of a strategic planning process. Strategic planning is a term describing an activity that creates a document that serves as a path for an organization to move forward to fulfill its mission. There seems to be some mixed feelings…

Seeking Experienced Proposal Writer

Seeking Experienced Proposal Writer

We are looking to hire a freelance Proposal Writer to help us prepare a variety of government contract, private foundation, and corporate grant proposals, as well as letters of interest, reports, and other development materials for our client roster of non- profit organizations. This position will report to the Fund Development Manager and work with…

Foundation Research

Foundation Research

Prospect research is the process through which non-profit organizations identify foundations, corporate groups, government agencies, and individuals who might be interested in funding their work. By looking at a funder’s previous giving, funding priorities, and giving capacity, you can determine whether or not they might be a good fit for your organization. Prospect research is…

Happy New Year

Happy New Year

End of Year Reflections 2020 revealed many of our capacity issues i.e. emotional, physical, technological, and financial, to name a few. I’ve had to do a lot of capacity work this year to manage and prepare for growth. This meant that I had to take inventory of my strengths and weaknesses. I had to take…

Has Your End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign Gotten Lost in the Shuffle?

Has Your End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign Gotten Lost in the Shuffle?

It’s pretty late to start planning a fundraising campaign. Ideally, your year-end appeal would have gone out before Thanksgiving, but I’ve been in this field long enough to know that I’ll continue to hear from organizations I love and support, even as the date inches closer to the holidays. I understand: You didn’t have the…