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Strategic
planning and short-term management of nonprofits by DSA has delivered
high impact results for our clients.
  DSA
has conducted both strategic planning and grantwriting for Friends
For Tomorrow (FFT), an organization dedicated to providing children
and adolescents facing extraordinary life challenges with the
therapeutic benefits of horseback riding. DSA's inputs supported
the board and staff as they grew from a budget of $25,000 to $140,000
in a year and a half, and hired three new staff.
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"DSA
has been the key to our growth and sustainability. They
remain a part of the FFT family to this day."
Diane Auger
Executive Director
Friends for Tomorrow
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Our
involvement with start ups such as Compassionate Care (CC) illustrates
the benefit of DSA's full-service approach. CC, a program of palliative
and integrative support for families facing ALS (a.k.a Lou Gherig's
Disease), partnered with DSA in 2003 when they had revenues of
$60,000. DSA has managed their legal filings, worked with their
staff and board to create their mission statements, logo, website
and newsletters and managed their database of donors and contacts
and continually researched and applied for grants since that time.
DSA contributions have freed staff to take care of what they do
best-provide direct services to ALS patients and their families.
In 2004, Compassionate Care's annual budget grew to more than
$130,000 and they are now well-positioned to capitalize on this
success, having developed important relationships with their donor
constituency.
DSA
has managed grantwriting on an interim basis for several organizations
including for New England Scores (NES) and Health Care for All
(HCFA). While the board of NES conducted a three-month Executive
Director search, DSA's work led to more than $100,000 in grants
for the Boston-based youth program that runs after-school programs
integrating creative writing and soccer. A total of 10 grants
were submitted and eight were successful over the NES engagement.
In a similar, two-month assignment as an interim grantwriter for
Health Care for All, Massachusetts' leading health care advocacy
organization, $75,000 was raised from eight grant submissions.
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DSA does
more than write grants, we help nonprofits position themselves
for success.
The
DSA team played a critical role in the successful grant submission
by Men Against Breast Cancer (MABC) to the CDC for $1.3 million.
MABC targets support services to educate and empower men to be
effective caregivers to their partner with breast cancer. DSA
worked with MABC and their partner, the Johns Hopkins Breast Center
to design an effective program aligned with the CDC's priorities.
DSA's expertise in working with underserved populations was instrumental
in supporting the development of MABC's outreach effort that included
securing national partners such as the Mayo Clinic Native Web,
National Black Leadership Initiative on Cancer II, and Nueva Vida/New
Life. This was MABC's first ever successful grant application.
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"We
could not have done it without them!"
Matthew Loscalzo
Director of Patient and Family Support Services
Rebecca and John Moores
UCSD Cancer Center
(Formerly with the Johns Hopkins Breast Center)
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DSA
was the key to helping UMASS design and effectively market a nursing
program which yielded a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA). The proposal was one of only 16 accepted
out of 116 total submissions. DSA's continued support to UMASS
has enabled them to provide high quality computer and internet
training to their students and to secure an additional $40,000
in funding. This program supports 55 minority and low-income nursing
students.
The programs
funded by these federal grants are helping to reduce the disparities
in health outcomes that exist for minority populations, as promoted
by Healthy People 2010.
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