My role is to help your nonprofit organization grow bigger, become competitive to receive grants from funder organizations, and transition from its current capacity to break through into its future. Usually, because smaller, newer, and transitioning nonprofits are under-funded, running on a "shoe-string", and trying to do "more with less", they do not have a development coordinator on staff. By engaging the services of my staff and myself, you can begin to find the more to do the more with. Our purpose is to work ourselves out of a job. This will happen when your organization is ready to staff its own development office. We can help you get to that point starting with very affordable options.

• Research prospective funders and grants
• Coach your grant-seeking process
• Write competitive grant applications
• Facilitate customized training for your board, staff, and volunteers
• Plan and facilitate fund-raiser events and campaigns
• Improve internal and external communications
• Create donor relations and stewardship policies and procedures
• Activate and increase your donor base and mailing list
• Provide anyone who asks with a semi-regular free E-Newsletter- email me at asklesley@teamlesley.com to subscribe.

• Free two hour consultation- Determines whether we will work well together and helps me evaluate your current organizational capacity
• Contract with me at my regular hourly rate to do a specific task. Clients have used me to research prospective grant funders; create promotional brochures; write annual reports; conduct board, staff, or volunteer training; set-up and facilitate fund-raising events and phone-a-thons; write government grants
• Enroll in the Development Office In-A-Box Program a 12-month contractual agreement whereby you pay a monthly fee. In return you receive hours of my staff's or my time on projects of your choice including: strategic planning, grant-seeking, materials development, donor relations & stewardship, event planning and fund-raising, board/staff/volunteer training, social networking, capacity building, research, and mentoring. Unused hours can be banked (like the roll-over minutes on a cell phone contract) for up to one year as long as your organization remains enrolled in the program. Additional hours used in a particular month are billed at a preferential rate, a discount of 40%.

Call 314-422-5572 or email asklesley@teamlesley.com for more details. The Development In-A-Box Program is a one year commitment that is renewable annually.