Your Integral Resource:
Oneness in Business - Oneness Blessing in Maine

Practical Tactical, Game-Changing Approach to Life and Business:
(hint: they're not separate!!)

*  The Oneness Experience

Practical Business and Nonprofit Organization Resources:

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*  Grant Writing ~ Friend Raising:
Funding and Donor Development

 

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The Oneness Experience

Seminars and Coaching:

~Living in the Flow of Life ~

Change Your Life – From Surviving to Thriving:

~ Are you living your life in joy and passion?

~ Are you excited & enlivened by your life, your business, the work you do?

~ Are you looking for an “edge” to add to all the resources you need to thrive in this social and economic environment?

The Oneness Awakening weekend takes you out of your mind, and into the “zone” – the place of perfect flow that arises from a singularity of purpose and focus, the merging of action and awareness.

The hallmark of “flow” is a feeling of spontaneous joy while performing a task – in this weekend course we focus on living your entire life “in the flow.”

The process of the Oneness Awakening weekend is designed to still the ceaseless chatter and conflict of the mind, giving you an opportunity to be aware of your life and your life’s situations in a whole new way.

You will emerge from the weekend with a strong sense of stillness and focus that will shift the way you see your life, and open your awareness to options you may never have considered before.

To register, or for more information, or to arrange a class or seminar in your area,

contact Elizabeth at 207-619-1-ONE 

(207-619-1663)

or email:

Grant Writing and Support Development

{click here for Our Approach to Support Development}

* What Your Integral Resource can do for you:

Introductory Consultation

We meet with you (at no cost) to discuss your project idea and the need for it within the community. We learn about your organization and let you know what other materials/information we would need from you. You get to learn about us, and our approach, and get the sense if we'd be a good "fit" for your organization.

Grant-Related Services:

·Review of Existing Written Materials

·Funding Source Research

·Relationship Development with Funding Sources

·Drafts of Proposals or Letters of Inquiry

·Final Proposal or Letter of Inquiry

·Project and Organizational Budgets

·Updating Donor Database

·Generating or Compiling Standard Attachments (Board list, organization chart, financials, etc.)

·Establishing a System to Follow Up and Monitor proposals

Additional Services:

The Creation of Friend Raising Plans

·Developing and implementing strategic friend raising plans in collaboration with the Board of Directors and management.

·Developing strategies to broaden the base of funding sources beyond grants to include direct mail, social media, special events, major gifts, endowment planning, earned income, and planned giving.

Grant Maker Research

·Researching prospective corporate and foundation donors for operating, project and capital support.

Proposal Writing

·Writing proposals and solicitation materials that position the organization for success.

Program Development

·Helping senior management to design and re-design programs so that they will elicit support.

·Developing internal tracking systems and outcome measures with program managers to enable them to monitor program accomplishments according to stated goals.

Friend Raising Training

·Assisting non-profit Boards of Directors to formulate, clarify and realize their role in friend raising.

·Conducting support-related workshops (e.g., "How To Create A Friend Raising Plan," "Grant Writing Basics," "Friend Raising Do's and Don'ts").

Publicity, Newsletters and Communications

·Assisting local non-profit organizations through the creation of press releases, social media interactions, newsletters and generating publicity for specific friend raising events.

·Creation of displays, brochures and fact sheets to enhance the image of the organization.

For more information, 

contact Elizabeth at 207-619-1-ONE 

(207-619-1663)

or email

Elizabeth (at) IntegralReal (dot) com

 

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Your Integral Business Resource

Specialized Office / Project / Communications Management:

How can we help?:

Blog content, social media updates for your small business or community benefit ("nonprofit") organization

  contact Elizabeth at 207-619-1-ONE 

(207-619-1663)

or email:

Our Approach to Support Development - "Friend Raising"

"Friend Raising" - It’s not just a play on words

(my acknowledgments and kudos to Hildy Gottlieb, at Creating the Future, for the terms "friendraising" and "community benefit" organization - it is with great enthusiasm I found someone teaching and living this approach, proving it is possible!!) [NOTE: "community benefit", above, links to video!]

Have you ever listened to some professional fund raising “experts” talk about people? You wouldn’t even know it was a real human being they are talking about. They talk about “prospective donors,” what “type” of donor a person is (which dictates how “important” they perceive the donor/person to be), making percentages and “getting more out of them” and “making the ask” and….  I don’t know about you, but sometimes, it just plain creeps me out!

And when they start talking about the organization they are working for/ building financial support for – you’d think that the absolutely only reason that that organization exists is because of money. Maybe every once in a while they might mention something about the organization’s mission – perhaps they’ll speak of the community that is benefiting from its existence, and how. But often just as a “story” to “hook” the next, or a bigger, cash contribution from a donor.

You are a part of an organization that you believe in enough to be devoting your time – paid or volunteer – to support. This is something that, somehow, is important to you. It is something that the community must also find value in, to support.  We are, truly, talking about SUPPORTERS. We are not looking to “develop donors” to the organization, we are working with supporters of the cause that we all believe in. Developing relationships. Developing friendships. The focus is supporting and furthering the cause that beneficially impacts peoples’ lives, being an integral part of something that is meaningful to people in their lives, in their communities.

I’ve heard fundraisers say, “The Boards need to be educated, they need to come around, and do as I say, because without funding, without donors, their programs/ their organization would not exist”.  And a lot of boards and executive directors buy into the approach that it is money that is primarily responsible for sustaining an organization into the future. 

At Your Integral Resource, we have a fundamentally different view and therefore fundamentally different approach.  If your organization has a purpose that truly serves your community, where everyone involved with your organization, benefits, and everyone served by and involved in the organization understands the benefits they receive, then it WILL be supported by the community.

Too many organizations build programs in order to attain funding, and then scramble to try to figure out how to support the programs once the funding runs out.  Programs need to be inherently, integrally, a clear part of what you do, what you are about, serving the community.  Support will come through.

Be clear, be focused, be strategic in your program development, and the resources to support your programs will be there. And we will help you realize them.

Our approach is about relationships: Building individual and community relationships, not manipulating donors. Growing community engagement. Organizations and their communities being mutually supportive - helping each other to thrive.

It’s about being Community-Driven, as Hildy Gottlieb, at Creating the Future, puts it:

Community-Driven means just that - that boards focus their primary accountability on providing impact for the community. That we stop talking about why we cannot provide that impact, and that we instead focus on ensuring we have the means so we can provide that impact. That we stop seeking short term funds at the expense of long term ability to provide the mission. That we engage the community in everything we do, because we are more powerful when we do our work together than in a vacuum. And that working with the community means building long term relationships based on mutual benefit and trust.

From our perspective at Your Integral Resource, the first goal is that your community is so deeply integrated, interwoven, connected with the fabric of your organization, and what your organization is about, that it is inconceivable to the community that your organization would not continue. It is inconceivable to the community that you not be fully supported by the community. That your mission and vision are vital and integral to the well-being of the community.  The community knows who you are, and what you’re about, and why that is important to them.  (And the Board is the link between the organization and the community.)

As you can see, our focus is a bit different from the “standard” approach you’ll come across: we are not saying to focus inward, focus on money, to try to survive. We invite building a strong core, with the community as an integral part of that core. Community Engagement is no longer an additional thing to remember, to add to a list of things to do - it is the very thing that the organization is founded on. We develop a clear understanding and deep appreciation and basic premise of why we, as an organization, are doing what we’re doing, and for whom, ultimately, we do it.

So now, when we use the term “Friend Raising” – it isn’t a cutesy little play on “fund raising” – it is an acknowledgment that we are broadening and strengthening our foundation in the community, building a stronger and even more integral community support system in our organization, so that ALL involved, are benefiting from the process, and benefiting from the relationship. Our organization becomes more impactful, more sustaining, more integral, in the community.

Friends “get” the organization; friends support the organization; friends show up and help – because it is truly a mutual relationship, appreciated and valued by all.

And it is not just about the money, or the volunteer base, or the public relations.  This approach goes much deeper than that. Community engagement includes the organization being open to, even cultivating, community input: advice about the mission; input about the organization’s growth.

Board members, staff members, and volunteers, need to know your organization better, so they can better share the vision and mission of the organization with the community in their interactions. It helps everyone be a more active, stronger part of the leadership and sustainability of the organization. It creates more avenues for two-way conversations about how the organization and the community are best served in their on-going, growing relationship.

contact Elizabeth at 207-619-1-ONE 

(207-619-1663)

or email:

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