Need an affordable but quality website? Lamer Gray offers a special package to help nonprofits affordably launch websites.

Lamer Gray is listed in Idealist's directory of nonprofit consultants. Idealist is the place for nonprofits and
consultants to connect.

Register your nonprofit at igive.com, then tell your clients, staff, donors, and volunteers about it. When they purchase online from leading retailers through this website, your nonprofit receives a portion of the proceeds.

Association of Fundraising Professionals
The Foundation Center
Nonprofit Gateway

Idealist

Boardsource

Itancan

Lamer Gray specializes in
marketing and public relations for nonprofits.

Good Works.

We've worked in the shelters, in the workplace, and in the boardrooms of dozens of nonprofit agencies serving communities. Our staff has served on United Way panels, nonprofit agencies' boards of directors, and volunteer public relations and marketing committees. We've led corporate fundraising campaigns for nonprofits, supported community drives, and responded during crises including the Oklahoma City bombing. Our nonprofit skills set is complemented by partnerships with nationally-known fundraisers and nonprofit experts.

Fundraising

Fundraising begins with strong public relations skills designed to build mutually beneficial relationships between nonprofits and funders. We can help you develop strategies to identify and profile target funders, communicating with them the effectiveness and appeal of your organization's solutions, and building mutually beneficial long-term relationships with them.

Grant writing

Effective grant writing is 80% research and 20% writing - and is most definitely an art form. Research accurately matches the need with those of a funder...then great writing tells the story in an accurate and compelling way.

An effective proposal focuses on the client and their need - that is, the condition in their life that the grant proposes to change. The proposal must logically describe the proposed methods, timeline, and budget to facilitate that change. The objectives must be measurable, the writing crisp, the story compelling, the format precise, and the details accurate. The proposal must logically appeal to a funder and emotionally move them to act. It's no small task by any means.

We can research grants for you, help you write them or write them for you, or evaluate and provide effective feedback to improve your grant writing or grant writing process.

Special Events

Special events aren't just about logistics, although those can be overwhelmingly detailed. Special events are marketing events designed to meet specific objectives with targeted groups. Those groups may be funders, clients, volunteers, peer nonprofits, politicians and government officials, even board members. What does your next special event need to accomplish for your nonprofit?

Lamer Gray is supporting the Hope Concert benefiting DVIS. We are providing publicity, a website, logo, posters, ads. Tickets: 918.58.BRADY.

During CCFSA's 2002 annual conference hosted by Hope Harbor. Lamer Gray gave the following presentations.

The Basics of Marketing

Writing the Marketing Plan

Messaging for Nonprofits

Public Relations

   -  Media relations

   -  Volunteer programs

   -  Crisis communications

   -  Image and positioning

Presentations

Special events

Print materials

Video materials

Web-based marketing

Websites

Development

   -  Fundraising

   -  Grant research

   -  Grant writing

   -  Donor programs

Lamer Gray believes in supporting the communities in which we work and live. We regularly donate hours to our contracted nonprofit clients.