Agile Project Management for Nonprofits & Social Impact Teams

Stop the cycle of staff burnout and missed deadlines. We provide the training and coaching you need to manage complex grants, programs, and fundraising achieving twice the impact in half the time and a sustainable pace

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Does Your Team Feel Overwhelmed by "Heroic Efforts"?

Many nonprofits rely on unsustainable “all-nighters” to hit grant deadlines or launch events. We help you move from crisis mode to a sustainable pace using Agile for Nonprofits.

Why Agile Works for Social Impact:

Beat the Burnout: Move from individual “heroics” to high-performing, self-organizing teams.
Increase Transparency: Know exactly what everyone is working on without the endless meetings.
Adapt Faster: Pivot your strategy when donor priorities or community needs change.

What does it mean when a nonprofit professional, team, or organization says that they are Agile?

To our team at Agile in Nonprofits, it means that they embrace the 4 Agile values that are articulated in the Agile Manifesto.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working product over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

While we don’t ignore or forget about the items on the right, if we say we are Agile, it means that we value items on the left more.

In valuing the items on the left more, our teams and organizations can develop better ways of working as a team and achieve what we KNOW is possible…creating twice the impact in half the time at a sustainable pace.

Read the full Agile Manifesto here.*

*The Agile Manifesto is an internationally accepted set of values and principles. While it originated in software development, we know and have proof of how these same values and principles work in nonprofit and charitable organizations.

About Agile in Nonprofits

Agile in Nonprofits strives to support nonprofit organizations that are looking to achieve greater impact in their communities faster than they ever have before. Agile in Nonprofits team supports nonprofits through training and coaching to assist in each organizations’ Agile transformation.

Agile in Nonprofits, started in 2018, is a product of DH Leonard Consulting.

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Agile in Nonprofits took the Scrum Guidebook and put a nonprofit spin on how to teach it by using nonprofit case studies for the examples and inspiration. Led by once grantmaker and now grant professional, Diane H. Leonard, the Agile in Nonprofits team has a deep understanding of the drive, passion, and unique barriers nonprofit and charitable organizations face. Through coaching and training, we help you identify ways to create twice the impact in half the time, while simultaneously eliminating heroic efforts. Whether you are a team of one or nine, we are here to support you at all the stops along the way of your Agile journey.

Ways Of Working With Us

Agile Training & Webinars for Teams

We offer live and pre-recorded webinars to help you learn how Scrum can help your nonprofit. We can also work with you on scheduling a live webinar or in person training

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Scrum Master & Product Owner Credentials

We offer in-person and web based public and private Registered Scrum Master Credential and Registered Product Owner Credential Training

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1-on-1 Agile Coaching for Agile teams

We offer virtual coaching for organizations that have gone through our credential courses as packaged hours or on demand.

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Not sure where to start?

We created a journey map for you to better understand the trainings that we offer and what may fit best for you and your Agile journey

First look

Diane H. Leonard, GPC, RST, Jessica Crowley, and Megan Martin, RPO talk about why Agile in Nonprofits was called Agile and not Scrum in Nonprofits.

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This was everything I needed and more. So many webinars end up actually only being for one level of knowledge, and the presenter did a great job of catering to people within different types of organizations and with different types of teams. As someone who has worked with several nonprofits who have issues with silos and processes and procedure refinement, this proved to be an interesting new look for me at ways we could improve the way we work as a team.

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My nonprofit is small so I wear many of the hats of the roles discussed but this SCRUM approach to completing grants will help me better organize all that is needed and hopefully keep me from burning the midnight oil to meet deadlines. Thank you!

Webinar Attendee

I loved the interjections of concepts and practices to show us a number of ways to bring these concepts back to our teams

Scrum Master Attendee

Scrum has been a game-changer for Encore. This is an amazing opportunity to discover the difference it can make for your organization. Thanks to DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC for introducing us to the concept and encouraging our implementation efforts!

Shelly Loethen

Scrum Master Attendee

Simply amazing. I am hopeful I can implement SCRUM in my workplace.

Webinar Attendee

Diane offered flexibility and Sympathy to our unique organization

Scrum Master Attendee

She was great. I view a lot of webinars that are only ok, and she is a fantastic presenter. Very intelligent, and got me excited about a whole new set of professional goals around scrum/agile. Love it.

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