Diane H Leonard

Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST is a Grant Professional Certified (GPC), Approved Trainer of the Grant Professionals Association, and a Registered Scrum Trainer. Diane began her career as a Program Officer for a state-wide grantmaking organization and she continues to serve as a reviewer for a variety of grantmaking organizations. Since 2006, when she formed DH Leonard Consulting, Diane and her team have secured more than $98 million dollars in competitive grant awards and Diane has personally trained more than 69,978 nonprofit professionals. When not working with her team, Diane can be found in the 1000 Islands, out for a run, or drinking a strong cup of coffee.

How to Master Grant Strategy, Calendars, and Teams

Watch now as you'll get the tools to use, and steps to follow, to be the lead grant writer/grant professional of a successful grant team in a grant seeking organization.

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Grant Writing is a Team Activity

Learn how to build a grant team to increase success and prevent burnout.

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Using Agile in Your Fundraising Team

Learn how an Agile mindset, and specifically the Scrum framework, can help your organization increase outputs, outcomes, and impact of your fundraising team across several areas.

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Being an Agile Leader in Your Nonprofit | Foundant Technologies

Being an Agile Leader in Your Nonprofit focuses on empowering YOU, an amazing nonprofit professional, regardless of your title, to embrace the role you can play as a leader within your teams.

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Using an Agile Framework to Win More Grants

This on-demand webinar helps grant professionals learn how to utilize Scrum in creating your grant plan for the year, how to manage large grant applications, and how to facilitate your grant team.

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Should I give grantmakers more than they ask for?

When I teach beginner level grant writing courses, a common question from participants is whether or not it is okay to send or upload additional materials that were NOT requested by the grantmaker...

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Tips for Telling (and Selling!) Your Story in Grant Applications

Storytelling is not only a key to successful fundraising efforts with individual donors. Storytelling is a key element for successful grant writing as well.

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Supporting Capacity: 6 Tips to Elevate Your Grant Funded Partners

While serving as a grantmaker gives wonderful perspective and insight for when sitting on the grantseeking side of the table, it also gives me unique perspective and ideas on ways grantmakers could...

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