Nonprofit Partnership

Your ideas and skills. Local nonprofits have innovative ideas and close connection to the people they serve.  With agile processes, quick decision making, and a clear mission-driven focus, nonprofit innovation improves lives and strengthens community resilience. Yet, local nonprofits rarely have the financial means to hire development consultants, let alone development directors. Good ideas linger. Innovation sits on shelves. Growth stagnates. How can nonprofits overcome this challenge?

Our tools and processes. By partnering with us, we work with you to create the tools and systems necessary to compete for, and win, competitive grants. Using our Analyze, Reveal, Craft, and Hone (ARCH) growth model, we identify your competitive edge and build the systems you need to identify and win competitive philanthropic and government grants. We are not just grant writers. We help you develop your skills to create strategic partnerships and raise critical funding.

Partnership. Cadence can help your nonprofit overcome this trap. By developing an ongoing partnership, we can build your skills in cultivating donors, developing compelling materials, and writing high quality proposal. For small nonprofits, we work on a sliding scale model that provides high quality development services at a price your organization can afford.

For a limited number of nonprofits, we can offer a partnership based model. Instead of charging an hourly rate or a retainer, Cadence becomes your trusted development partner, prospecting new donors, developing relationships, identifying opportunities, and leading grant writing efforts. When we win a grant together, Cadence becomes part of your implementation team, providing program management, systems strengthening, or evaluation support. Using this model, Cadence creates an accessible way for small organizations to pursue opportunities, improve grant prospecting and writing skills, and deliver results, without taking on financial risk.