Strategic Planning and Grant Review
The purpose of strategic planning is to identify and prioritize the comprehensive funding needs, goals, and initiatives of your organization and its constituents. A funding needs assessment and ‘Proposal Research Opportunity’ (PRO) report are then developed and reviewed with you for the purpose of establishing a schedule of high priority grants that we will help pursue for your organization. This allows us to advise you on the merit of your proposal and make necessary recommendations on how to improve your chances of obtaining funding. In doing so, we analyze your probability of funding, your budget, narrative and whether or not your organization is a good fit for a grant. We will always advise when a client should, or should not, move forward with a proposal and help you along the way.
Proposal Writing
Our professional grant proposal writing services include the planning of the program design (with your organization and its partners), development of the steps in proposal writing, according to the RFP, background research, full narrative and budget, and submission of the proposal. Each step of the writing process is designed to include strategic planning between our experts, our clients’ staff and stakeholders so the resulting grant program produces outcomes that are customized to address your needs.
Program Evaluation
The “age of accountability” now requires most grant awarded organizations to contract an independent, third party evaluator to perform summative evaluation, formative evaluation, and monitoring of your grant funded programs. Grant evaluation is extremely important as it will likely determine eligibility for further funding. Evaluation services are generally paid for from the grant itself and should always be performed by a “third party”. We use sound and balanced research methodology – incorporating valid and appropriate statistical testing techniques. Our approach ensures that the evaluation is objective, valid and reliable. This process provides the funder with reporting data that is required to ensure your eligibility for future awards.
