We provide grant research and writing services for 501(c)(3) nonprofits. This includes researching the strongest funding opportunities, developing a clear and comprehensive strategic plan, drafting and refining proposals, and ensuring that your organization is ready to meet funder requirements. We also provide support for media and social-media strategies.

Our goals are to:

• help your organization develop a truly strategic approach to fundraising that saves your team valuable time, energy and resources.

• make sure every application filed presents the strongest possible case for your project/program.

• help you to communicate your impact.

• put your organization in a strong, stable position to properly plan and build a future, for you and for those you serve.

Yes. But… it’s probably not a good idea.

Most funders want to see at least two-to-three years of filings before they will consider supporting an organization. They like to see a strong and active board of directors, sound financial and management structures, evidence of impact, monitoring and evaluation measures, and more. These things typically take a little while to implement. Check out the resources on National Council of Nonprofits for a lot of great information on how to pull all of this together (without losing your mind).

However, if you’re still young but feel that you’re pretty steady on your feet, it is possible that we can help with identifying smaller community or family foundations and corporate sponsors. Contact us to talk about how we can offer a reduced-rate service that matches your needs.

Because it makes economic sense.

If you don’t have an experienced grant writer on your team, or in your neighborhood, the options are:

• hire an in-house grant writer — expensive unless you are planning on applying for more than 25 grants a year.

• wing it — time-consuming, especially without the tools you need. And you risk missing something and losing out on grants that you otherwise might have won.

• buy lots of lottery tickets — no comment.

• hire a professional — they do what they do best so that you can keep doing what you do best.

As professional grant writers, we have the knowledge, skills and tools that meet your needs for grant research, strategy and writing, at a price that makes sense.

In an ideal world, your grant-writing consultant effectively becomes a true partner, someone who is as deeply connected with your organization as any other member of your team, though without the need to keep feeding them biscuits (or pay the other costs associated with employee management and retention). For this, we also offer the option of retainer services.

Yes you can. There are no concrete rules against that, as such. There are also no rules against running with the bulls in Pamplona.

For now, most funders have no formal policy on AI (according to Claude 🙂), but where policies do exist they tend to hold that AI may assist but not substitute for human authorship, and some are now requiring that the use of AI should be disclosed.

Our feeling is that, as in so many other realms, AI is making the human touch increasingly valuable.

We would like to be clear that we do use AI for research, project management, data-management and analysis, planning, quality control, and sometimes for a good, old brain-storm when no one else wants to listen to us.

No. And if anyone tells you they do, run.

No. But we take our job of maximizing your chances of success very seriously.

We do promise that we will never submit an application unless the fit is right. After that, the decision to make an award is entirely at the funder’s discretion and cannot be guaranteed by anyone.

We are not American, but we choose to work with American nonprofits because we both have strong ties with the US through work, family, and a lot of great friends.

We have worked hard to build on our backgrounds, knowledge, experience and skills in such a way that continuing to work with American nonprofits is a natural decision.

It also means we’re up at least six hours before you, and working while you sleep. This means that queries you put out at 6pm will be dealt with by the time you get up the next morning.

We have both worked remotely for years and working across multiple timezones is one of our superpowers. We’re roughly five to six hours ahead of Eastern Standard/Daylight Time, and eight to nine hours ahead of Pacific Standard/Daylight Time, but we are always available when you need us to be.

We are accessible via email, Zoom, Google Meet, or we can call on WhatsApp or Telegram.

No, but we were once married, a long time ago, in a land far away. Nicky kept the name because it made professional sense at the time, and now she can’t cope with the idea of changing the login details for 183 different websites.