Full-Service Fund Development
Lydia Sierra Consulting enhances the capacity of nonprofit organizations to achieve sustainable growth and increased impact.
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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.
Strategic Planning
Our collaborative planning process will create a highly usable roadmap to organizational progress and impactful mission fulfillment. LSC partners with your leadership team to assess your strategic position; analyze the market and climate within your sector; and develop strategies that will prepare your team to execute a comprehensive multi-year Strategic Plan.
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.