Is This You?

Who can Seattle Grantwriting really help?

If any of the following describes you or your nonprofit, we may be a good fit for your grantwriting needs:

• You are the Executive Director of a small nonprofit and are primarily responsible for fundraising and development. You are great at what you do and care passionately about your organization’s mission and programs. Maybe writing isn’t your strong suit or maybe you just find the whole grantwriting process arduous and stressful. Or maybe you have good research and writing skills but you’ve been putting out too many fires and grantwriting has slipped through the cracks.
• You are the Development Director of a small or medium-sized nonprofit and you are being stretched in 19 different directions. You understand the importance of grantwriting but there aren’t enough hours in the day to research all the prospects, let alone develop the number of high quality proposals that you are sure the organization could apply for.
• Your reliable and trusty grantwriter has found another job, moved, or is on leave and you have a number of impending deadlines and grant proposals that are critical to your budget. You don’t have time to train someone new and need a professional to jump right in and help out.
• You can’t afford to hire a highly skilled full-time grantwriter on staff and you can’t find someone with the right skills and experience to work part-time.
• You’ve spent countless hours writing proposals for worthy and deserving programs that have been turned down. You know your nonprofit is making a difference in the lives of people in your community but are not sure your message is getting through to funders.
• Your budget is tight but you don’t want to make the mistake of being penny-wise and pound-foolish by failing to adequately fund grantwriting. You wonder if it makes sense to hire a consultant rather than pay the extra payroll taxes, benefits, and other overhead costs associated with hiring a staff grantwriter.
• You’ve got a nagging suspicion that you have not uncovered all of the funding sources that you should and that other agencies are doing a better job of figuring out where the money is. You’d like some professional assistance in developing a grants calendar that uses cutting edge prospect research to match your nonprofit’s mission and programs with a comprehensive database of foundations and corporate giving programs.

If grantwriting is a source of frustration and stress, you may want to consider hiring a team that enjoys the challenge of identifying funders and putting together world-class proposals. We love what we do and believe that our proposals reflect this.