The Lindsay Group LLC Newsletter

"Expect Success"

March 2014

The Lindsay Group LLC helped clients raise over $85 million in 2013!

Congrats to all of our clients who were successful in their fundraising efforts.

Latest Award:

DCVOTR $300K

DOJ Second Chance Incarcerated Vets

Current Funding Opportunities

Federal:

Youthbuild DOL $1.1M, $73M avl. due 4/22/14

HB1 Ready To Work Part.Grants Award Ceiling $10M Award flr. $3M due 6/19/14

Community Food Projects Comp. Grants DOA avl. to food banks $250K due 3/31/14

Training To Work2 Adult Reentry $2M avl; $30M total avl. due 4/18/14

SAMSHA Homeless Ind. Supportive Housing $400K/Yr

$9.98M total avl.due 4/25/14

PreRelease Halfway House Services DC Dept. of Corrections IDIQ due 3/21/14

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Book Review

Sustainability

Nonprofit Sustainability is an area often queried in grant applications. It is one question which many nonprofit organizations are not prepared to answer. As a member of the We Plan Well™ team I was given a copy of a book on Nonprofit Sustainability authored by Jeanne Bell, Jan Masoka and Steve Zimmerman. It offers some refreshing insights and strategies to approaching and understanding sustainability.

What is sustainability? Most executive directors posit that it is having enough resources to keep the doors open or to make payroll. The author likes the United Nations' definition of sustainability: "doing what is required to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." This book brings to the fore two important premises to sustainability "financial stability" and mission "impact." The authors note that these two concepts should be interconnected and front and center at all times. Too often I have been part of strategic planning sessions that do not take the full measure of program success and long term sustatinabiity into consideration. No one really wants to discuss the program within the agency that has little impact or financial viability. At the heart of the process is the development of a business model which substantiates a sustainability strategy. For example, a business model would say "the Neighborhood Center provides employment counseling through funding sources that includes government grants, direct mail appeals and special events to improve outcomes for unemployed and underemployed workers." The book provides a useful matrix map that juxtaposes impact and profitability into four quadrants. The quadrants include: 1) High Impact, High Profitability, 2) Low Impact, Low Profitability, 3) High Impact, Low Profitability and 4) Low Impact, High Profitability. The authors note "the Matrix Map provides a framework for identifying activities where profitability can be increased as well as a conceptual foundation for analyzing new ideas. But it does not take the place of leadership. Leaders must seek creative, strategic decisions to follow the imperatives that marry impact and money and are grounded in the context in which the organization operates, and they must put financial resources into those areas that will generate impact and profitability." Jeane Bell, Jan Masoka, Steve Zimmerman, Nonprofit Sustainability, Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability, Josse-Bass 2010. Spring is great time to jump start your strategic planning efforts.

James R. Lindsay CEO

This is an excellent time to be involved in the work of helping African American male youth reach their full potential. Stay tuned for a full analysis of the "My Brothers' Keepers" the White House's Initiative.

Sincerely,

Marie Wilson-Lindsay Vice President

The Lindsay Group LLC

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