The Perfect Nonprofit

The Nonprofit Toolkit provides you with checklists, process summaries, documents, forms and other information designed to help your organization.

Access consultants with expertise in marketing, governance, finance, special events, annual campaigns, capital campaigns, feasibility studies, community assessments, board development and motivation, and a myriad of other nonprofit experiences.

Training Webinars from Diversified Nonprofit Services give you practical advice and processes you can implement to improve your organization. Each webinar is presented by a professional who is experienced in the field.

Three services to help you find and obtain grant funding:

• Grant Research
  
• Proposal Writing
  
• Proposal Review

The DNS Annual Campaign Process combines detailed procedures; customizable tools, forms and documents; training; scheduled status reviews; consultant support; and a state-of-the art intranet for tracking and coordinating your campaign.

Strategy Development is a comprehensive planning process designed for nonprofit organizations. The process creates strategies for the allocation of resources to create value for your organization and gain a competitive advantage.

A Community Assessment is a study that uses objective information to analyze needs, identify strengths and resources, and provide information necessary to make informed decisions about programs and services.

The Capital / Endowment Campaign process is designed to rasie the necessary funds for capital construction and/or improvements and to ensure operational financial security through the building of an endowment. The process DNS employs incorporates leaders from the community into your campaign governance team to make your campaign a community effort on your behalf and not just another fundraiser. Using this process DNS has raised over $700,000,000 for charities around the United States.

A Feasibilty Study is the intial foundation and the vital link in planning and executing a Capital / Endowment Campaign. A Feasibility Study uses objective information to evaluate the potential for success of a Capital/Endowment Campaign. It is based on information provided by 40 to 50 of your community's most influential philanthropic, business, foundation executives and communiity leaders. The Feasibility Study is the most important factor in determining your campaign's ultimate success. The study also provides information that helps in defining the campaign plan that meets the needs and interests of the philanthropic community and thus increased it's level of support for the project.

The DNS Resource Development Process is a full service analysis, evaluation and restructuring of your Resource Development process. Using an Interna Resource Development Audit as the basis for collecting data and analysis the DNS staff takes this information and makes a series of recommendations to help you redfine your process, change the structure where necessary, participate in creation of new staffing, and even providing ovesight of your entire effort as the new structure is implemented. This process has benefited numerous nonprofit organizations across the country and has created a whole new culture of giving for these agencies.

Nonprofit organizations are only as healthy as the boards that govern them. The Board Development process DNS employs includes techniques for identification, cultivation, selection, recruitment, orientation, education, recognition, assessment, rotation and separation of board volunteers. Board volunteers learn the compentencies needed to lead your organization effectively in the areas of governance and fundraising.

DNS develops marketing plans that are based on the mission and strategic objectives of your organizaiton. DNS designs marketing and public relations campaigns that elevate the community's understanding of, and support for, your organization. DNS creates events that attract, and provide a vehicle to communicate with, your organization's target audience, such as philanthropists and community leaders.