Grant Writing
Successful grant writing is about a lot more than just writing. For start-up and small nonprofits, carving out time to find, write, manage, and submit grant proposals can be challenging. We’ll help you build a robust and effective grants program through:
Building and Maintaining Your Grants Calendar
We will provide ongoing prospect research to ensure your grant calendar includes qualified prospects.
Writing and Submitting Grants
We will work with your team to make sure each submission is well-positioned to align with the priorities of the funder, then write and submit Letters of Intent, Proposals, and Reports that are fully approved by you and your team.
Goal Setting, Strategy, and Coaching
We’ll have a monthly goal-setting meeting to review upcoming submissions, hear organizational updates, and discuss new prospects.
Ongoing Reporting
You’ll receive a monthly report of submitted and pending grants so you have a thorough overview of your grants program.
Receiving grants funding starts with having a well-written proposal that paints a compelling picture of your mission and work.
Giant Squid Group’s Grants Assessment and Boilerplate Package helps bring clarity and focus to your grants program and ensure your proposals tell a compelling story. We’ll work with you to assess your current grant proposals and organizational readiness to pursue grants; offer feedback and coaching on how to strengthen your grants program; and provide you with a clean, crisp grant narrative to be used when submitting future proposals.
Grant Assessment &
Boilerplate Creation
1.
Intake Survey and Strategy Call
We’ll start with an intake survey and an in-depth analysis of your current grants program. We will review previously submitted grant proposals, financials, impact stories, strategic plans, and more, to get a sense of who you are as an organization, and how you can best grow your grants program. Your intake survey is followed by a 90-minute strategy call for our team to learn more about your programs, goals, and grant-related challenges.
2.
Written Grant Assessment & Narrative
Giant Squid Group will take what we learn through our strategy session and create or update your grant language, including:
Written Grant Assessment outlining your organization’s grant writing strengths and areas for improvement;
Grant Narrative Template (Boilerplate) that captures your organization’s mission and history, statement of need, programs, goals, and other important information.
One round of revisions based on your feedback and additions.
3.
Wrap-Up Call
Once we have written your Grant Narrative and completed your assessment, we will wrap up the project with a one-hour call. This call is designed for you to ask questions and bounce ideas off the Giant Squid Group team, so you feel confident and excited about launching your new grants program!
