Services Offered

Grant writing takes many forms including planning a project, developing a budget, aligning missions and goals, communicating with the foundation, writing the grant, and responding to questions. Blue Heron NP Consulting can help with all steps of the grant writing process including researching, seeking out, and helping to build relationships with potential funders. Grant writing can take anywhere from 2-3 hours up to many days depending on the type of grantor. This service also depends on how much work you want to do internally vs contracting with Blue Heron NP Consulting for each component.

Grant Management goes a step further than the grant writing process by supporting your organization with the successful management of grants that are already realized. Implementation and sustainability plans, data collection, written grant reports, managing grant budgets, making needed adjustments to grant proposals, and closing out grants. No finance direction is given, only support pertaining to the accurate draw down of grant funds. Blue Heron NP Consulting can support your team on an ongoing basis or through as-needed consults on specific grants.

Managing many different funding streams can make it difficult to create a whole organizational budget that is useful for tracking purposes. It can feel daunting to make sure you’ve remembered everything and built in contingencies to safeguard your operational efforts. Blue Heron NP Consulting offers support for building budgets through historical financial data, current trends, and active grant budget requirements. This service requires communication with someone with solid financial understanding of the organization. Blue Heron NP Consulting does not offer business accounting support but helps with the strategic development of an organizational budget that can be a useful tool throughout your fiscal year.

New programs often need support to get off the ground successfully. Well established programs often need a revamp. Wherever your program is in the timeline, Blue Heron NP Consulting can help by developing implementation and sustainability plans, staffing assessments and plans including written job descriptions and organizational charting, facilitation of brainstorming sessions and idea boards, data collection, and strategic program development. This process can support building up to a larger organizational strategic plan or can be the starting point for potential grant writing support.

Blue Heron NP Consulting can facilitate discussions with your team to support the development of a thorough, useable strategic plan whether for an individual program or a whole organization. Plan includes overarching goals, objectives, strategies and benchmarks. Strategic planning requires preparation work and analysis of where the organization is currently, surveys of staff, community needs assessments and more. Blue Heron NP Consulting offers different levels of support depending on what components are done internally by the organization. Process includes note taking during brainstorming sessions and the development of visual tools and written strategic plans for the effective sharing and internal use of the plan.

**Strategic Planning is offered on a very limited basis at this time. 

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