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Tell me about your vision. Sure. So I own Inovant

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consulting. We're a non-profit consulting firm.

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We're not a non-profit. We consult for non-profits

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and work with a variety of organizations to help them with their

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grant writing and development needs primarily in the grant space.

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I started the company in 2016 really because I had a vision of

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being able to support local non-profits at that time. It's

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really where it started with their grant writing needs because I

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could see such a huge gap in the need for having funding to be

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able to do programs in our community and help our community

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and the ability to just have the time to write those grants and like to get the

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applications and to get that funding. So my vision was to be able to support

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them and kind of be that missing staff member that just came in,

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sent the grant application in and was out without being a burden on their

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salary or their operating expenses. So that was the initial vision.

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My vision has grown since then obviously years later now

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to be really a non-profit, like no wrong door

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approach type of organization. So any non-profit, any stage of development can

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come to us and get something to support their goals and

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their needs. So we do low ticket items,

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everything from like digital downloads and templates to hire,

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you know, we do all of their grant writing and grant management. We like to

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take over at their grant department. So that's really the vision is to just

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have this, like in one sentence, a no wrong door

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approach for non-profits. I love that idea and it's important that

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you say that you are a consulting firm that works with

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non-profits, not a non-profit consulting firm.

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Right, yeah. Very different thing. We are not a non-profit, but we work

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exclusively with non-profits. Where do you think your vision is going?

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So I don't focus very much on financial goals because we work with non-profits

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and you really have to kind of, I mean you do have to consider

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money because obviously I need to hear my employees, but also

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like I think I get more value from and more

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drive from like the number of non-profits we help or the

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number of grant funds that we bring in or are successful in obtaining.

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Or one of the new things for me is like working with non-profits outside of the

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U.S. So we've got two in other countries right now and I really

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love to be able to say like we're working with non-profits in the U.S.

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and also in Africa and in Central America and I'd love to add to that.

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I like that. I think it's cool. Just to grow.

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Yeah, that's where it's headed now and then we also, we just

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launched a new coaching program. It's like an exclusive membership program for

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non-profits. Leaders who are kind of new to the

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space, so like if you just founded a non-profit you've got this passion,

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but you're not really sure what, you know, how to move forward because running a

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non-profit is really a lot different than running any other

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type of business. So we just launched this membership

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program where like non-profit founders and people that are new to leadership

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can come in and get the resources that they need. We have like this robust menu

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of things to help support their goals and their growth and their organization.

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So I'd say that helping more organizations is the vision, but also

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having this deeper sort of membership program

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with lots of value is also the vision. Why do leaders hide from funding their

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vision? I think, can I speak from like a non-profit

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leaders space? Absolutely, you speak from wherever you

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want to think about. I think because it's difficult, right? Like I think out of all

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the things that we do that non-profits do, I'm

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loop right in there with them. I'm at the front line.

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Funding's the hardest because in a non-profit you're asking for it, right?

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You're not necessarily doing, you know, trading

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services for financial gain or selling a product really.

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You're literally often just asking for the money and

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that's a difficult thing to do and it's uncomfortable if you're not

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used to it. It can be uncomfortable when you're used

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to it. So I think that that's really difficult and then I think it's

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also not the fun part, right? Like when we start a non-profit we want to

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think about like what how good we're going to do and like the stories we're

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going to tell them, the slides we're going to impact.

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Not like the money in the bank. Like that's not fun.

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It's not the fun part. It's just not. It's the difficult, the most difficult part of

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running a non-profit and the most challenging. So I think

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that that's why sometimes leaders don't want to face it

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head-on and it's a good day. I'm really happy that you tuned

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into Vision Pros Live. I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these

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episodes continue to move forward. This is going to get more and more fun. We'll have

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more and more engagement as well. We'll invite people to

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participate in the show and thank you for giving us your time and

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attention. Have an excellent time building out your

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vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.