Values Based Consulting
A foundational belief of Ashley Lane Consulting is that nonprofit work builds communities, and grants build nonprofit work. By working through the values of hope, mutual respect, integrity, curiosity, and gratitude, work stemming from Ashley Lane Consulting's efforts will be the best we have to offer.
HOPE
Work is approached with the expectation that grants can bring transformational change when paired with solid, well-executed programming. Grant work is rooted in the belief that the nonprofits receiving funding are working toward better lives, stronger families, and solid communities, with a secondary focus on dollars earned. Hope will anchor the efforts of Ashley Lane Consulting on the part of all clients.
MUTUAL RESPECT
The best work happens in a respectful environment. Work within the nonprofit realm can be time-consuming and emotionally taxing. This work takes deep dedication. Valuing mutual knowledge, expertise, time commitments, deadlines, and the communities served means holding regard for each other and those helped through grants. This respect allows for the most effective work and best outcomes.
INTEGRITY
Quality work will be demonstrated through candor, objectivity, dependability, and adherence to the Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics. Refracted through a lens of grace, honest conversations evaluating grant opportunities and program strengths ensure targeted applications and accuracy in storytelling. This process ensures time is used wisely, clients receive quality work, and the community served is always the main focus.
CURIOSITY
A willingness to learn, a desire to know more, an openness to new points of view, and a willingness to understand individuals and communities make storytelling authentic. Taking the time to do the necessary research and educate oneself on a new client or population are foundational to grants that stand out to reviewers. Driven by genuine curiosity, every new grant opportunity, client, and population served will be explored to understand their story.
GRATITUDE
Nonprofit work allows the opportunity to serve and support change. Grants mean learning new things daily and underwriting the work of countless organizations and programs. Gratitude for the ability to give back through work will remain an ever-present focus.
Ashley Hamlin, GPC
Ashley has written for more than $6.6 Million in foundation and capital grants and contributed to $17 Million in federal funding for FQHCs, charter schools, and nonprofit organizations. She has designed and managed programming for millions more.
Ashley is a storyteller, a factfinder, and the lover of a well-laid-out plan. By approaching grants with a communicator’s training, she leverages the adage “know your audience” to better frame messaging in grant requests. Leaning into research and a program management background, Ashley understands funder goals and well designed programs.
Since 2005, she’s been figuring out how to “make things happen,” her first official job description. After working in marketing, communications, and program management for 11 years, she joined the outreach and communications team at a Federally Qualified Health Center and found grants. Partnering with the Grants Manager, she restructured programs, streamlined outreach efforts, and realigned community partnerships to strengthen federal, state, and local grant proposals. Eventually, she began pitching in on grant narratives.
Since then, she has been a full-time grant professional. For three years, she was a Grant and Development Coordinator for a nonprofit in Magnolia, Texas, at times serving as the sole employee in the development department. Ashley earned her Grant Professional Certification (GPC) in 2022, becoming one of just 526 internationally certified professionals. She is an active Grant Professionals Association (GPA) member and a Southeast Texas Chapter board member. In 2023, she founded Ashley Lane Consulting and works with charter schools, disability service organizations, Hispanic service groups, arts education organizations, and multi-service nonprofits.
Contact
Ashley would love the chance to talk to you and see if grants can help tell the story of your nonprofit. Reach out today to set up a 30-minute introductory assessment call.