Stamford Cradle to Career
Elevate has truly become a part of our team. I appreciate the trust that we have developed over time; we have conversations in which we respectfully push and pull one another in a way that is making us more strategic and competitive for grant funding.
president
Center for Caregiver Advancement
The Elevate team brings deep knowledge of the grants process, effective systems for collecting information, and exceptionally strong writing to each Writing Capacity Project. We have moved further with Elevate in a shorter period of time than we have with any other fundraising model we have tried thus far.
president & ceo
First Up
With Elevate’s support, we have increased the quality and output of our grant writing. The Elevate team has developed a keen understanding of our organization and our work. With their strategic expertise, data tracking, and compelling writing, we have seen a significant increase in grant funding. This was especially critical in light of the unique challenges early childhood education professionals faced during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Executive Director
Calvary Women’s Services
When we had a temporary vacancy on our team, Elevate’s Ongoing Writer Retainer service met our grant writing capacity needs. Elevate was invested in our success in a genuine way, and it was a gift to have a fresh perspective on our grant language.
Chief Development Officer
Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice
From the beginning, Elevate helped me understand the time and steps it would take to grow our grants program to support the growth of our organization. With their consistent support to research and cultivate new funders and develop new ways to talk about our work to philanthropic partners, we’ve seen our hard work pay off in the form of new funder relationships and increased revenue.
Executive Director
Tri-County Cradle to Career Collaborative
Through a Grants Accelerator Project, the Elevate team taught us how to put our best foot forward to request the funding we need to make a difference. We learned strategies to garner authentic interest in our work and techniques to translate that into financial support to help us accomplish our goals. Elevate is the perfect name for the company, because they truly “elevated” our thinking!
Organizational Effectiveness and Special Projects Manager
Dog Tag, Inc.
As Dog Tag continues to grow, Elevate plays a vital part in our success. I am immensely grateful for the Elevate team’s professionalism, timeliness, and overall rockstar quality in their work. I feel so confident in this grants team that I am able to focus on other key responsibilities.
Director of Development
Dance Makers
Elevate is my go-to grant writing partner. We’ve worked with a variety of writers that are responsive, detail-oriented, and have helped me raise a significant amount of funding through grants over the years.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Children’s Law Center
Our Elevate team is like an extension of our staff—seamlessly working with our development team, program directors, finance staff, and senior leadership to sustain and expand our support from local and national funders.
Chief Development Officer
American Forests
We originally brought Elevate on to help us rethink our foundation strategy and add this missing leg of the stool to diversify our revenue streams. As an ambitious organization — with plans to grow and the right leadership in place to do it — American Forests was in need of expert advice and grant writing capacity to help us meet our goals. The Elevate team quickly became essential to our fundraising operation. We have been impressed with the quality of their research and writing, their ability to quickly learn and translate our programs into effective proposals, and their systems approach that keeps us all on track.
FORMER Vice President of Philanthropy
LA Voice
I appreciate the way my Elevate team not only writes strong proposals, but also helps me to consider the bigger picture of how each funding opportunity fits into our overall strategy. They are informed, accessible, organized, and they are excellent writers. I have come to think of Elevate as an extension of our staff.
Development Manager
Children’s Institute
Working with Elevate has been wonderful. The team is stellar — organized, prepared, and very communicative. In the beginning, they took the time to get accustomed to our grant language, and now we rarely edit Elevate’s drafts. Plus, Elevate’s all-inclusive pricing model is very economical when compared to the hourly rates of other contractors we’ve used.
Vice President of Impact Investment
Union Station Homeless Services
Elevate is a great thought partner. I consider them critical members of my development team. Working with Elevate has expanded our grants portfolio and increased our foundation revenue.
Former Chief Development and Communications Officer
Azul
Elevate has been a key collaborator and thought-partner in our external communications as our small yet nimble nonprofit continues to grow. Their team of experts has been instrumental in our efforts to connect with foundations dedicated to supporting our work to protect our coasts and ocean.
Director of Operations
Smith Kingsmore Syndrome Foundation
Working with Elevate has been a very smooth process from start to finish. Our writer’s professionalism and strength of writing proved instrumental in gaining the trust of the collaborators on our application and kept us organized and on track to submit this project early. Their approach took a truly respectful and collaborative approach to make everyone feel heard. The finished proposal has accomplished my aims of communicating a clear story of our work and answering the questions specifically with an eye for building our case as to why we should be funded.
President & Co-Founder
Friends of Guest House
Compared to other companies we considered, Elevate offered the most comprehensive support. I’ve been pleased to see that they’ve delivered on that comprehensive approach! We didn’t want to hire and train someone to work on grants internally, since grant writing is not our expertise. Working with Elevate means we don’t have to worry about that.
Kari Galloway
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Fayetteville Justice For Our Neighbors
The webinar was pretty fantabulous! As the part-time/contract Grant Writer for a small nonprofit, I really appreciated Elevate for taking the time to offer this free training. I realized how much I have to learn, and the webinar showed me there’s a great deal of potential in developing an actual Grants Program (even in my somewhat limited capacity). I’m super looking forward to putting some ideas into action. This webinar will be a key element in helping us grow our reach (and our coffers).
Josh McKinley
Grant Writer
Get Volunteering
The Elevate team is professional, competent, and easy to work with. Throughout the Grants Accelerator Project, Elevate pushed me to think about my organization’s work in ways that I hadn’t before. The result is that I am now much more confident in the story we have to tell our funding partners. Investing in a GAP was money well spent.
FRANK PHILLIPS
Executive Director
Women’s Action for New Directions
The Elevate team is wonderful. They are organized, detail-oriented, and collaborative. I’m impressed by how they work together so seamlessly and how much I look forward to time spent working with them on our grant program.
NANCY PARRISH
FORMER Executive director
Imagine LA
Not only did Elevate help Imagine LA break the $1M grant funding ceiling for the first time, they are a true partner: actively working with us to achieve new levels of strategy, expertise, and clarity in terms of how we talk and write about our ever-evolving organization — and always in the service of our mission to break the cycle of family poverty and homelessness.
BRIAN ROSENBAUM, MSSW, CVA
FORMER Community Engagement Director
JFS Cincinnati
While we have been working with Elevate for several years, their value to the organization became even more clear when we faced a departure on our internal development team. The continuity, strategic expertise, strong writing, and detailed data tracking that the Elevate team brings to our partnership ensures that our grants program remains steady through this period of transition. Elevate has become central to our mission.
Liz Vogel
Executive Director
Equal Justice Works
During a year of significant transition for our organization, Elevate was an amazing partner! The Grant Writer on our Elevate team was skilled at understanding our work and framing our proposals in a compelling, successful way. Elevate is definitely one of the best contractors we have worked with.
Michele Crosby
Director of Foundation Relations
Remember Niger Coalition
The Elevate team regularly goes above and beyond to ensure that Remember Niger is well positioned for foundation support. The team is professional, knowledgeable, and truly cares about the work we do. With their partnership, I know we are pursuing a fundraising strategy that is setting us up for long-term success.
Executive Director
PFLAG National
Elevate has been incredible to work with. They have taken the time to get to know us, understand the work that we do, and translate our programs into successful proposals. I am often skeptical of consultants, but with Elevate, I am getting 110%.
Director of Development
GALA Hispanic Theatre
Elevate has changed my life as an Executive Director, who was the organization’s principal fundraiser for decades. We experienced continual turnover in the development department, and I was always picking up the pieces. Now, Elevate has helped us cultivate numerous new sources of funding, making it possible for me to focus on securing deep-pocket individual donors.
Executive Director
Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia
When we came to understand the need for a dedicated grants professional to complete our development team, we initially planned to make an internal hire. Despite a long search, we were unable to find the right individual to lead our institutional giving efforts, and we decided to go with Elevate. Looking back, we couldn’t be happier with this decision. Instead of one staff person, with Elevate we have a whole team of people who write grants, mine the field for new opportunities, and manage the administrative work of our grants program. It’s great bang for your buck. With Elevate’s support, we have raised millions of dollars and built a diverse and sustainable grants program.
Senior Vice President of Community Engagement
Senior Vice President of Programs and Strategy
The Theatre Lab
With Elevate, you get a crew of dedicated, incredibly knowledgeable professionals who become a high-level strategy team for your organization. My conversations with our Elevate team have resulted not only in winning proposals, but also in re-envisioning some of the work that we do in the community to better fit with our own strategic objectives.
Executive Director
NOVA Scripts Central
When I became the ED of our organization, one of the first decisions I made was to hire Elevate. I spent time researching and vetting grant writers and services. Elevate was not only the most responsive and engaging, but they also proved to be the most economical. The Elevate team has been instrumental in the success of our grants program. The team is very knowledgeable, and working with Elevate has helped me become a better ED with their thoughtful insight.
Donney John
Executive Director
Neighborhood Housing Services of South Florida
With Elevate, I know that I have a stellar team that is constantly thinking strategically about the organization and how to position us for success with grants. They write about our work in a way that is exciting to read, and we have brought in more funding with Elevate because we’ve partnered to make our best possible case to funders.
Kimberly T. Henderson
Executive Director
