Collin Lessing, Senior Grantwriter, Joining Vision and Action (JVA) Collin Lessing brings more than a decade of experience in communications and marketing to his role as Senior Grantwriter at Joining Vision and Action. Here are Collin's tips for productivity: These are some tips I learned from the Stephen King book "On Writing" that help [...]
By Amber Alarid, [Joining Vision and Action] This week, I am continuing to share career advice from myself and my fellow JVAers that we feel is most useful to young professionals. This is the advice we have received and cherish, the advice we wish we would have heard sooner and/or the advice we give to [...]
by Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO JVA is not a social media company. Our work for our clients—most of whom are individuals and organizations involved in community and social change—is focused on strategic and business planning, fundraising, organizational development, program development and evaluation, communications with donors and members, and cutting edge research to inform all of it. [...]
By Julia Alvarez, JVA Consulting Last Thursday, JVA hosted a panel to discuss the federal sequester and the current budget situation, and to learn what they mean for nonprofits. While the information shared by Congressional panelists left many participants feeling uncertain (at best) of the future of federal funding, I also left the panel feeling [...]
JVA was honored to host an incredible panel of experts on February 21 for an informative session about the 2013 sequester. At JVA, we have been closely following the federal budget crisis and how it may affect the nonprofit sector. Last year, JVA Senior Associate Lisa Cirincione wrote a report on the state [...]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting Sometimes, the best lessons are the ones you learn when luck is your side. Recently, I was getting ready to begin work on a grant proposal that required me to use an online grant form. I have worked in a ton of online grant application forms in my role at [...]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting It’s difficult to believe we are already in the second month of 2013. For many organizations, this means you have already begun to get your first grant proposals of the year out the door. Whether you’re already off to a sprinter’s pace, or you’re still reworking your attachments and boilerplates, [...]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting Evan Weissman of Buntport Theater Company. The fourth in our series of Big Ideas for 2013 blogs, this blog features Evan Weissman of the Buntport Theater Company, which offers innovative and affordable entertainment. Evan’s Big Idea is to create a “civic health club” that combines activities people love [...]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting How often is it that the President of the United States is in your own front yard? For me that’s never happened—until today. President Barack Obama has spent much of his week in Colorado—debating Mitt Romney at University of Denver on Wednesday and bringing his campaign tour to Sloan’s Lake [...]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting Last week, the Aurora movie theater shooting returned to national headlines as victims from the tragic event voiced concerns and frustrations about how funds gathered from donations were being distributed. The story of the Aurora shooting is one that strikes deeply at our emotions both locally in Colorado and nationally, [...]
