Recent Work.

Podcast: Listen to Joy Dickinson, founder of Dickinson Consultants share about nonprofits and how they build strong communities.

Capital Campaign: This short video highlights how Dickinson Consultants helped Family Building Blocks build a permanent Relief Nursery in the Santiam Canyon - keeping children safe and families together for generations to come.

Workshop: Best Practices in Grant Management - this four hour workshop explores how to improve your nonprofit’s ability to find, win and steward grants. Topics include: how to find funders that fit your mission, how to write a compelling grant, how to build a grant budget, and how to manage the grant writing process in your organization. The instructor, Joy Dickinson, has over 25 years of grant writing experience. Her firm, Dickinson Consultants, helps dozens of nonprofits raise tens of millions annually.

Presentation: This three hour session explored the key components that make a nonprofit successful. This workshop is for nonprofit leaders (executive directors, board members), those who want to become a nonprofit leader, and those who support the nonprofit community (the rest of us!). Activities include how to conduct a Nonprofit Health Checkup, explore the top challenges facing nonprofits like the pros and cons of various nonprofit revenue streams and board member recruitment and engagement.