Grant Readiness Assessment

Not sure whether your organization is ready to pursue grants? Let’s find out before you spend six weeks learning the hard way.

I’ll look at your programs, goals, internal capacity, core documents, and current funding setup, then give you a clear picture of what’s ready, what’s missing, and what to tackle first.

Best for newer or growing nonprofits that want a real answer before they start applying.

What You Get:

• A pre-call questionnaire so we can hit the ground running

• A 60-minute strategy session to walk through your org, your programs, and your current setup

• A personalized action plan with next steps, organized by priority

• A simple “readiness score” so you know where you stand

Grant Calendar & Strategic

“More” opportunities doesn’t automatically mean “better” opportunities.

I’ll research funders that align with your organization, flag the ones that don’t, and build a practical grant calendar around your priorities and capacity. You’ll leave with a strategy for what to pursue, when to pursue it, and what needs to happen before each deadline.

Best for organizations that are tired of reacting to whatever grant happens to land in someone’s inbox.

What You Get:

• A discovery call to align on your goals and capacity

• A curated funder list with alignment notes and red flags

• A 12–18 month grant calendar with prep timelines

• A strategy memo so you know exactly what your next moves should be.

Proposal Development

You have the opportunity. You need the proposal.

I’ll help shape the strategy, develop the narrative, coordinate the pieces that need to line up, and turn the application into a clear, funder-aligned case for support.

This can include new proposals, renewals, and other funder-facing grant materials. Scope depends on the application, the amount of existing material, the attachments involved, and how much strategy needs to happen before the writing starts.

What You Get:

• A professionally written, funder-ready proposal

• Attachment and budget coordination to make sure everything lines up

• Two rounds of edits

• Final delivery in whatever format the funder needs (Word, PDF, or portal entry)

Pricing depends on a few factors — lots of attachments? Tons of narrative questions? First time putting it all on paper? I’ll send you a custom quote before we start.

Just need a second set of eyes on something you’ve already written? Check out my Red Pen Reviews for more details.

Grant Template & Language Library

If your team keeps rewriting the same organizational history, program description, outcomes language, and budget explanation from scratch, let’s fix that.

I’ll build a reusable library of grant-ready language and templates your team can actually use - written in your voice, organized around the information funders ask for most often, and easy to adapt without starting from a blank document every time.

What You Get:

• Organization Info Template: Mission, vision, background, and needs statement — all in one place

• Data & Impact Template: Your key metrics, outcomes, and success measures, ready to plug into any grant

• Logic Model or Outcomes Framework Template: Pick the one your funders are asking for most frequently.

• Budget Template: Clean and simple, with space for revenue, expenses, and a basic narrative.

• Grant Narrative Cheat Sheet: Quick, ready-to-use blurbs for LOIs, emails, and full proposals — including 1-, 3-, and 5-paragraph versions of your program description

Delivered in Google Docs (or your preferred format), and 100% editable by your team.

Grant Review & Editing

Sometimes you don’t need a writer. You just need someone who can tell you what isn’t working.

Send me a draft before submission and I’ll review it with a funder-minded eye for clarity, alignment, structure, and red flags.

Already got the rejection? Send that too. I can review rejected applications to identify patterns, weak points, and the places where the proposal may have lost the reader - so the next application is stronger than the last one.

What You Get:

• In-document comments on clarity, alignment, and tone

• Light copyedits for flow and formatting

• A summary email with your top 3 improvement areas

Already got a rejection email? I can help with that too.

I can review rejected applications to identify patterns, weak points, and the places where the proposal may have lost the reader - so the next application is stronger than the last one.

What You Get:

• A full review of up to 5 submitted proposals

• A detailed written report with notes on alignment, clarity, structure, and red flags

• Annotated comments to show you exactly what fell flat

• Optional 30-minute follow-up call (+$150)