Services for Non-Profit Organizations

The Global
Cottage’s
Services for
Non-Profit
Organizations:

Grant Writing and
Social Enterprising

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The team at The Global Cottage offers sustainable solutions for non-profit/non-
governmental organizations to secure grant funding and maintain financial
sustainability through the creating and management of social enterprises.
The Global Cottage, as an organization development consultancy firm recognizes
that many non-profit organizations depend on external funding, specifically grant
funding to survive. While this is not recommended from the standpoint of
organization sustainability, it is often a necessity for organizations to build their
capacity and their brand while exploring options to support their vision and mission
in the long-term. Additionally, it is essential for non-profit/non-governmental
organizations to both understand and be able to communicate the Social Return
On Investment (SROI) that results from its services to demonstrate that maximum
leveraging is occurring when funds are awarded to support the organization.
The Global Cottage is a passionate advocate for the creation of social enterprises.
A social enterprise is a revenue-generating business that is created by a non-profit
organization to support and expand its mission by using entrepreneurial
approaches. One of the first steps to embarking on a social enterprise is instilling
an entrepreneurial mindset within your non-profit organization.

“Grants sustain projects. Social enterprises sustain organizations.”
-The Global Cottage

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Grant Writing Services

The Global Cottage team will:

1. Prepare a grant pursuit profile for your organization, outlining its eligibility
for international federal, state and local grants based on its existing
organization profile.

2. Conduct research to identify grant opportunities for which your organization
is eligible for.

3. Author Letters of Interest, Concept Notes, Concept Papers, and Proposals for
your organization.

4. Conduct research on the local landscape to prepare context, rationale and
needs statements for proposal.

5. Draft Letters of Commitment, Letters of support, Partnership Agreements
and Memoranda of Understanding for grant proposals as may be requested
by funders to show partnership support and engagement.

6. Develop program models, as requested by funder, for proposals.

7. Develop work plans, as requested by funder, for proposals.

8. Develop logic models, as requested by funder, for proposals.

9. Review draft proposals as needed.

10.Provide subject matte expertise in projects focused on:

 Career exploration, career pathways and workforce development
 Specialized services for opportunity youth
 Social services and human development
 Positive youth development
 Re-entry/returning citizens
 Gender and development
 Financial literacy and asset building
 College access
 Leadership development program for youth and adults
 Organizational capacity building
 Entrepreneurship

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Social Enterprising Services

The Global Cottage team will:

1. Guide the organizational team about how to infuse the social enterprise
approach into the management model aligned with mission and vision.

2. Identify problem and/or needs that can be harnessed into a sustainable
social enterprise approach.

3. Develop the social enterprise business plan.

4. Identity potential funding and investment to launch the social enterprise,
and develop proposals seeking start-up funds for submission.

5. Determine the best legal structure for the social enterprise.

6. Recruit the talent and/or training internal staff necessary for operating and
managing the social enterprise.

7. Identify and form vital business partnerships, and author partnership
agreements and memorandums of understanding.

8. Create process management systems to ensure efficient operation of the
social enterprise.

9. Develop a social enterprise growth plan, to include long-term product and/or
service diversification.

Key questions The Global Cottage team will assist the organization in
answering include:

 What are we trying to achieve and is a social enterprise the way to
do it?

 What will our social enterprise do?
 Why do we want to create this social enterprise?
 Who wants to buy our product or service?
 How will the social enterprise operate?
 Who will benefit from our social enterprise?
 Can we explain our social enterprise simply and concisely?
 What is the long-term purpose of the social enterprise?
 What will our social enterprise be known for?
 What will this social enterprise look like in five years?

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ABOUT THE GLOBAL COTTAGE

The Global Cottage is a knowledge incubator for organizations and entrepreneurs
around the world.

Thought Leaders * Global Solutionists * Action Mobilizers

Our unmatched team of solutionists, thought leaders and action mobilizers bring talent, hands-on experience,
and evidence-based strategies to support our clients by offering customizable services to elevate their
operations. Our team has a shared commitment to performance excellence and to delivering actionable
solutions. The team members are highly seasoned and experienced with over 50 collective years of
organizational development and social enterprise development experience internationally, nationally and
locally. In 2016 along, our team sourced over US$11 Million in grant funding for its clients. Our team has
extensive experience working with a cadre of high-level and grassroots development groups across the country,
as well as globally in Asia, North America, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. This experience enables us to
draw upon extensive international resources to help our clients resolve strategic operational development
issues.

Dr. Anita Davis-DeFoe is a certified John Maxwell speaker and trainer as well as
a leadership and gender expert. Dr. DeFoe is a workforce and career
development guru and a business thought coach, who served as the Vice
President of a South Florida Workforce Board for several years. She is a much
sough- after speaker and trainer inspiring audiences across the United States,
Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. She is an organization development, quality
and performance management specialist who has elevated the performance of
organizations in a wide range of sectors; she has developed several social
entrepreneurial ventures to pursue her passion for uplifting women and
transforming organizations. Dr. DeFoe is the author of A Woman’s Guide to
Soulful Living: Seven Keys to Life and Work Success, a novel Tropical Escapes, and Follow Her Lead: Leadership
Lessons For Women As They Journey From the Backroom to the Boardroom. The Execution Factor: 99 Strategies
That Can Ignite Organizational Productivity will be released in 2017. Dr. DeFoe has dished out expert advice in
Essence Magazine (September 2008, April 2009, August 2009) and Black Enterprise Magazine (March 2009,
August 2009.) https://dranitadavisdefoe.wordpress.com/

Dr. Icilda Humes is a gender and development practitioner who has dedicated
almost 20 years to developing and implementing programs geared toward
organizational development. Dr. Humes has served in leadership capacities at
the national, regional and international levels. She has conducted extensive
research on leadership including a case study, “Creating a Safe Space:
Evaluation of Leadership Experiences ...” which focused on intergenerational
shared leadership. Additionally, she has designed an organizational
development system for identifying the needs and attributes of young leaders
as well as identifying opportunities in which their leadership could advance the
purposes of organizations. Dr. Humes has conducted capacity-building workshops and developed programs,
policies, strategic plans and advocacy campaigns all over the world including in Afghanistan, Anguilla, Antigua,
The Bahamas, Belize, Ghana, Papua New Guinea and the USA. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dricildahumes

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