Services
Grant Writing
Our comprehensive grant writing services include the following:
Utilize Foundation Center, Federal Register, and other databases to research potential funders and create an annual prospect calendar.
Work with Executive Directors to determine the number of hours allotted to grant writing each month and decide which possibilities best align with missional and funding needs.
Submit grants at the corporate, local, state and federal level, including compiling all necessary attachments.
Adhere to compliance issues and submit progress and close-out reports.
Want to find out if your organization is grant-ready? Give us a call or email to schedule your free grant-readiness assessment.
Create Prospect Calendar of Potential Funders
Want to handle the grant writing on your own but need to know who to send them to? We can create a prospect calendar based on your organization’s location, activities, and target population, giving you a practical guide of which funders are most likely to support you. Unlike other agencies that give you printed sheets on each funder and hope you can decipher all the data, we’ll put this information into an interactive spreadsheet filled with deadlines, contact information, and other valuable information. This spreadsheet drives our approach throughout our comprehensive grants services, but we also offer it as a stand-alone service.
Grant Review
Have you written a proposal but want an extra set of eyes on it before submitting? We can:
Evaluate proposals prior to submission to improve their overall flow and readability and ensure they accurately portray the organization or program
Give easy-to-implement comments and suggestions to enhance your proposal and improve the likelihood of it being funded
Double check attachments to ensure compliance and accuracy
Training and Workshops
Below is a sampling of the trainings and workshops we offer:
All Things Grants
Organizing the Organization
How to Manage Grants
Marketing
We may not be a full-scale marketing firm, but the pieces we create for your grant proposals can easily be adapted to create collateral for donors, appeal letters, press releases, and social media posts.
Note: In order to be fully apprised of your organization’s programs and progress, marketing services are only available to clients that utilize our comprehensive grants strategy.
Continuums of Care
Do you have everything in place to be competitive for the newly released NOFO?
Is your score where it needs to be?
Is your CoC getting bonus points?
Do you need technical assistance in meeting the new guidelines and mandates?
Does your CoC need help structuring your rural communities to be competitive?
Our experience has kept us around since the inception of CoCs. We have assisted in many round tables and policy hashing meetings with HUD, USICH, HHS and more, including the policies that govern the new unsheltered and rural initiatives just released.
HUD Strategic Plan: We know the stress of all those daily decisions and how easy it is to get lost and lose focus on where you’re going. There are so many moving parts. We can help align your CoC with HUD’s goals and strategies.
10 Year Plan to End Homelessness: Every business needs a plan. The 10 year plan needs revisited; new goals set; objectives with a timeline to meet those goals. This blueprint provides key strategies needed to address your CoCs local homeless issues.
Contact us to see how we can assist your CoC in being even more competitive than in years past.
Additional Services
Since our goal is to chart your nonprofit’s success, we also offer the following services:
Budget Preparation
Do you know the true cost of running your organization? If not, you’re probably leaving money on the table with grant requests.
Program Development
Are you looking to expand your services but don’t know how? We can help you strengthen what you're already doing and add gap filling services to increase your bottom line and bring more help to your clients.
Program Monitoring
Large funders make visits to your office to review everything going on with their money. From staff qualifications to line item spending, let us help you make sure you're doing it right.
Outcome Development and Monitoring
Ready to learn how to create strong evaluation metrics that will inspire others to fund your organization while making sure you aren’t creating a data-tracking beast?
Leverage
Larger funders require a match and/or leverage. You’ll probably be surprised to learn what resources you already have that fill this requirement.