by Janine Vanderburg, JVA Consulting Are you up to date on the latest fundraising facts? Is your board? As JVA’s Development Director Intensive is coming up this month, we always like to make sure that we have the latest data on overall fundraising, who is giving, what is effective and other best practices integrated [...]
By Scot Kersgaard, Senior Associate Joining Vision and Action You’ve been sending press releases, building your online presence, setting up Google Alerts, writing op/eds, phoning reporters, crafting key messages, tweaking your story. Finally, you’re getting some media interest. Don’t blow it. A media policy is one of those things most organizations don’t think about [...]
By Scot Kersgaard, JVA Consulting The Denver Office of Economic Development was among 23 agencies around the country to be awarded a Ready to Work Partnership Grant from the United States Department of Labor last week. Denver received just under $6.2 million, which will be allocated over the next four years and will be [...]
We are excited to announce that the Denver Office for Economic Development was awarded a $6.2 million grant written by JVA! Read the Denver Post story here. JVA has raised hundreds of millions of dollars through grant writing for our clients. If you're interested in partnering with our team to raise the money you [...]
By Scot Kersgaard, Senior Associate, Joining Vision and Action The world is full of people with great ideas. Somewhat less common are people who turn those ideas into something not only real, but real good. Terry Anderson is one of those people. Vice president of enterprise & administration at Springs Rescue Mission (SRM) in Colorado [...]
A few years ago, JVA alum Wendy Longwood wrote this introductory piece for JVA's Executive Director Academy. The sector has grown a bit, but the benefits of leading an organization in the sector remain. 10 You always wondered what NPO stood for. You’re joining a sector with 1.6 million nonprofit organizations (NPOs), which comprises [...]
By Collin Lessing, JVA Consulting The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has been inescapable for the past month. The trajectory of its story in the news and on social media has been particularly interesting to me—especially those that have criticized it. Early on, there was commentary that this fundraiser was inherently flawed and doomed to [...]
by Janine Vanderburg, President/CEO, Joining Vision and Action How to write a grant that will get funded. In the 1990's, I stumbled across Eleanor Burns' Make a Quilt in a Day television series. As someone who had spent long hours creating quilts, I was instantly intrigued. The secret, it turned out, was a system of [...]
By Amber Alarid, JVA Consulting As some of you may already know, Grants Manager Camron Bridgford and I recently co-hosted a training with the Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships (DOSP), offering guidance on finding foundation, city, state, and federal funding and securing the right partnerships to create competitive proposals. We were fortunate to be [...]
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