Carinci Consulting: Strategy, Funding, Coaching, and Evaluation Services to Advance Nonprofit Impact
As Founder and Principal Consultant of Carinci Consulting, I bring two decades of non-profit leadership launching national strategic and research initiatives, conceptualizing networked improvement communities, and forging diverse partnerships to address gaps and improve stakeholder outcomes. Since launching a grants agency in December of 2022, I have helped clients win over $30 million in grant funding and have advanced a total of over $54 million in my career. How could leveraging my expertise advance your mission and free up your time?
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💌 Know Someone Who Needs Grant Help? A Simple Share Can Lead to Big Wins for You and Them!
Published 7 months ago • 4 min read
February 2025
Expanding Our Impact Through Community Sharing
As we step further into 2025, let's embrace the power of sharing—not just information and resources, but opportunities for growth and collaboration. This month at Carinci Consulting, we're excited to spotlight how our community can expand its impact by introducing colleagues and partners to the services that have empowered so many organizations to thrive.
Do you know a nonprofit, higher education institution, school district, or mission-driven organization that's striving to secure funding and make a greater impact?
Consider referring them to Carinci Consulting.
It's more than just a referral; it’s an opportunity to foster expansion and success within our community that reverberates through the projects and initiatives we care about.
Why Share?
Sharing valuable opportunities like these can be incredibly rewarding. Through our new referral program, not only can you help organizations unlock their full potential with expert grant strategy and writing, but you can also benefit directly.
Here's how:
Earn $1,000 if your referral signs on as a 12-month strategy client.
Earn $200 if your referral engages us for a specific project.
Your referral could be the catalyst for their next big breakthrough. Let's work together to ensure our community's potential is fully realized, amplifying our collective impact and bringing transformative projects to life.
Email us at hello@carinciconsulting.com to introduce your colleague.
Together, we can achieve remarkable things. Thank you for continuing to be a part of our community and for trusting Carinci Consulting to guide and support these vital initiatives. Here’s to a month of sharing, growing, and succeeding together!
How to Build a Winning Grants Calendar: A Nonprofit’s Year-Round Guide to Success
Picture this: it’s mid-February, a big grant deadline is looming, and your team is scrambling to pull everything together. Sound familiar? For many nonprofits, grant writing feels like a series of sprints, racing from one deadline to the next. But what if you could transform the chaos into a steady, manageable process that keeps your funding pipeline full all year long?
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Description: To assist at-risk communities and Tribes in the Western US with planning for and mitigating wildfire risks. Funding supports: (1) Development and revision of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs); and (2) Implementation of projects outlined in CWPPs (less than 10 years old). The program prioritizes at-risk communities with high wildfire hazard potential, low-income communities, and those impacted by severe disasters.
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE): Teacher Preparation Grants: Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Program
Funder: U.S. Department of Education
Award Amount: $$1,000,000–$6,000,000 per project year
Deadline: April 28, 2025; Notice of Intent to Apply: February 18, 2025
Description: Provides funding to increase the number of highly effective educators by supporting the implementation of evidence-based practices that prepare, develop, or enhance the skills of educators. These grants will allow eligible entities to develop, expand, and evaluate practices that can serve as models to be sustained and disseminated.
FY25 STOP School Violence Program Funder: U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
Award Amount:
Category 1: Up to $2,000,000
Category 2: Up to $1,000,000
Deadline: April 3, 2025
Description: Supports K-12 school safety by implementing solutions to enhance school climate, establish school-based behavioral threat assessment and intervention teams to identify violence risks, introduce technologies like anonymous reporting tools, and apply other evidence-based strategies to prevent violence.
1890 Institution Teaching, Research, and Extension Capacity Building Grants Program
Funder: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Award Amount: $100,000 - $750,000
Deadline: May 08, 2025
Description: Supports projects that strengthen teaching programs in the food and agricultural sciences in the need areas of curriculum design and materials development, faculty development, and others. by building the institutional capacities of the 1890 Land-grant Institutions.
Basic Needs and income Creation Funder: Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Award Amount:
Larger markets: $5,000 – $50,000
Smaller markets: $2,500 – $25,000
Deadline: March 3, 2025 (Note: There will be a separate deadline for Stable Housing and Empowering Communities on June 30, 2025)
Description: To support organizations addressing economic mobility in the area of Basic Needs and Income Creation: Providing individuals and families with essential resources and opportunities to achieve financial stability.
Kentucky Fried Wishes Grant Program - Improving Health & Wellbeing
Funder: Kentucky Fried Chicken Foundation Inc.
Award Amount: $10,000
Deadline: Application Window - March 31 – April 18, 2025
Description: Helps uplift communities by focusing on mobile health clinic creations, playground improvements, domestic violence shelter upgrades, and disability accommodations. Priority is given to projects that can be completed within 6 to 12 months.
Description: Offers support primarily to small organizations for projects in all artistic disciplines that extend the reach of the arts to populations that are underserved. The focus is on populations whose opportunities to experience the arts are limited by geography, ethnicity, economic status, or disability.
Description: Honors extraordinary nonprofit founders 50 and older who tap into the power of life experience to build a better future for us all. Winners also have access to yearlong individualized supports to help further their organizational goals. Examples of current supports include one-on-one leadership coaching for founders, data and evaluation consulting, succession planning, prospectus development, social media and branding support, and more.
I am so grateful for this incredible feedback from Dr. Sandra Suárez, Ph.D., STEM Center Director at Ramapo College of New Jersey.
It’s always a pleasure to work with passionate professionals like Dr. Suárez. I look forward to more opportunities to help institutions achieve their goals!
🏆Featured Client Win
Happy to share, a private university has been awarded a $2,000,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program! 🎉
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Carinci Consulting: Strategy, Funding, Coaching, and Evaluation Services to Advance Nonprofit Impact
Jennifer Carinci
As Founder and Principal Consultant of Carinci Consulting, I bring two decades of non-profit leadership launching national strategic and research initiatives, conceptualizing networked improvement communities, and forging diverse partnerships to address gaps and improve stakeholder outcomes. Since launching a grants agency in December of 2022, I have helped clients win over $30 million in grant funding and have advanced a total of over $54 million in my career. How could leveraging my expertise advance your mission and free up your time?
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