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DSA does more than write grants and fundraise
- We help nonprofits position themselves
for success
UMASS Boston
DSA was the key to helping UMASS
Boston design and effectively market a nursing workforce diversity
program which yielded two grants from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) for more than $2 million. DSA's continued
support to UMASS has enabled them to provide high quality computer
and internet training to their students and to secure. 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.
Men Against Breast Cancer (MABC)
The DSA team
played a critical role in the successful grant submission by
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.
After the grant ended in 2008, DSA continues to work with MABC
- We help nonprofits plan for the future
Friends for Tomorrow (FFT)
DSA has conducted strategic planning, helped set-up and maintain
the bookkeeping system and wrote grants for 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,
implemented a new client payment policy and hired new staff.
FFT has maintained that income level and put funds in reserve,
FFT continues to call on DSA when necessary.
Compassionate
Care ALS
Our involvement with start-ups such as CCALS illustrates the
benefit of DSA's full-service approach. CCALS, 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 2008, Compassionate Care's annual budget grew to
more than $680,000 and they are now well-positioned to begin
a capital campaign to build an ALS resource center, having developed
important relationships with their donor constituency.
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