Whatever Your Grant Needs Are

You have an important mission. Your organization is doing vital work in the community. You have a story to tell, and your organizational success depends on telling this story. But you don’t have the time as you’re focused on achieving your mission. Or you may not have the experience to research, write, and manage grants. At SGW, our team of experts fill these gaps and cover your grant writing and grant management needs – whether it’s a grant a year or ten grants a month, we’ve got you covered.
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How We Can Support Your Organization

Grant Research

We research potential private and corporate foundations for our clients, providing a list of potential funders whose goals are in line with their project, program, organizational support needs.

Grant Writing

We develop the letter of inquiry (LOI) for potential funding opportunities. Our Grant Writing services include all necessary consulting, proposal drafts, and final submission requirement for funding opportunities.

Grant Management

After the grant is funded, we also provide support for all follow-up work, including report writing and tracking, and communicating with program staff to ensure that the goals and objectives of the grant are met in accordance with the grant award.

Our Promise

Grants effectively fuel nonprofit missions. A grant is a tool the nonprofit organization uses to address important issues within their communities. At SGW, we promise to research, write, and manage your nonprofit organizations grant needs so that you can focus on your mission to provide much-needed services to your community.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Grant Writing vital to a nonprofit?

Nonprofit organizations do vial work in the local community. They help people in need. They address environmental needs. They benefit society.

For a nonprofit to successfully implement the goals and objectives of their mission, they need to obtain consistent funding. Because a nonprofit does not make money off the vital services they provide, they need to find outside sources of funding that will help them sustain their daily operations. The most common way for a nonprofit organization to continue servicing their communities is through securing grants.

With SGW, we seek to obtain the vital financial resources needed to fulfill your nonprofit’s mission.

How long does it take to write a grant proposal?

There are many steps in preparing a grant proposal for a nonprofit organization to submit to a grant funder. The exact writing timeframe depends on the complexity of the grant application, how rigid the funder’s application is, and how prepared the nonprofit organization is.

As a “rule of thumb”, if the nonprofit has all the organizational information succinctly available, the grant proposal will take less time to write.

With SGW, our grant writing process includes an initial assessment of your organization’s readiness to submit a grant application. Not every nonprofit organization is immediately prepared for how detailed and extensive the grant application process is, especially the budget, logic models, and measurable objectives required in a typical grant application. SGW will assist you in preparing your program outline so that you have the best chance at getting grant funding.

We already have a grant writer. Why do we need SGW?

Staff at a typical nonprofit organization wear multiple “hats” in order to focus on its mission to deliver much-needed services to the community. Your grant writer may be focusing on communications with your nonprofit’s donors, and you may need to use SGW to write grant proposal to federal, state, and foundation sources of funding. At SGW, we will be able to do the research, identify your best prospects, and contact them ahead of time to make sure that your really are a match. SGW can help you put together to language and supporting documents that you can use in your grant proposal to make sure that the application deadlines are met.

Why is researching so important?

At SGW, we do the necessary grant prospect research to have the best chance of receiving a grant award. We find opportunities that match the nonprofit mission, goals, and objectives and the grant funder’s purpose. Moving through the maze of government, state, and local grant opportunities can be a daunting task. There are so many funding prospects, that have varying criteria, and each day, new opportunities arise. This can be very challenging and overwhelming. It can take as much time to research eligible grant applications as it can take to apply for them. Getting your grant funded can be complex, which is why research is so important.

What do funders or foundations look for in a proposal?

At Strategic Grant Writers, we work with the nonprofit to make sure all the documentation submitted with a grant proposal shows the fiscal viability of carrying out the grant proposal’s scope of work.