nonprofit services
Are you looking for help growing your nonprofit, raising more revenue for your mission, writing grant proposals, or engaging your board in fundraising? Are you looking for coaching to help you grow as a nonprofit or fundraising leader? Maybe you’re overworked, overwhelmed, and looking for a someone to help you reverse engineer a plan to accomplish your critical mission. Let Barton Business Consulting help.
Raise More Revenue
Fundraising is both an art and a science. You need to appeal to both the head and the heart. You need to have a clear plan, but also be nimble and responsive. No wonder it’s overwheming and frightening for many people! Barton Business Consulting can help you create operations plans for annual campaigns, individual donor pipelines, executive front-line fundraising, and even plan events.
Grant research and writing is a specialty. Corporate Foundation, Family Foundation, and Government applications are all read by different audiences and have different metrics they’re looking for, make sure you’re highlighting the right parts of your programs and mission! Another grant writing service offered is “boilerplate” language creation - more general language that can be used for a variety of applications moving forward. Building a strong boilerplate folder is a great way to increase grant application capacity moving forward.
Engage Your Board
Your Board can be your greatest strength (but also, we know, the source of many headaches). From plans and strategy for recruitment, retention, and governance, through to the all-important fundraising training, Barton Business Consulting can help your Board feel empowered to be champions for you and your mission, activating their networks and both friend- and fund-raising for you wherever they go!
Coaching
Especially if you’re building a new nonprofit, or working in a small shop, sometimes nonprofit work can be lonely. Coaching can help you gain perspective, celebrate what you’re already doing well, and learn a few tips and tricks to ensure your efforts have maximum impact.
Sometimes raising money can feel like trying to make something grow in barren ground.
But with the right bright idea, a clear plan, and some hard work, it can grow!
julie barton, ph.d.
Julie believes philanthropy has an important place in society, and is passionate about bringing donor investments to worthy causes. From volunteer engagement through to large institutional stewardship, she knows that fundraising success happens when the whole community is engaged to create the change we wish to see.
Her 12-year career in nonprofit management includes positions at the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and the Harry Potter Alliance, a national youth engagement organization. Most recently she was at Tandem, Partners in Early Learning for almost six years, leading the organization through a time of expansion, a rebranding process, and as Development Director doubled the budget.
A 2016 Leadership San Francisco Fellow with the Chamber of Commerce and 2019 Social Entrepreneurship Fellow with StartingBloc, she is a lifelong learner. She is involved with New Leaders Council, the nation’s largest and oldest progressive training organization – after being a 2015 NLC-SF Fellow, she has served on the NLC-SF Executive Board for four years, is co-Chair of the National NLC Advancement Committee, is on the NLC National Programs Committee, and serves as a LEAD Trainer for NLC Institutes across the country. With past Board positions for About-Face and National Novel Writing Month, she is now the Events Director for the Children’s Media Association (Bay Area).
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