Grants Accelerator Project

We’ll begin our engagement by reviewing your existing documents, holding an onboarding meeting to discuss goals, and creating a work plan. We’ll listen to the vision you have for your organization’s growth and determine the best way to align your grants activities to that vision. At the end of the project, we’ll prepare recommendations about how to strengthen your case for funding and provide next steps. We will also share learning tools to help you continue to research opportunities, make connections with funders, and submit proposals on your own.

Elevate will conduct research on new funding opportunities and prepare 1-2 page memos on high-quality and high-priority targets.

We will help your organization approach funders by researching key points of contact, drafting emails for you to send to them, and preparing talking points for your meetings. If, during the project period, we are successful in securing meetings with funding prospects, we will incorporate their perspectives and feedback into our written deliverable.

Elevate will review existing materials, discuss your program design, and work with you to create or refine the language you use to present your organization to funders. We will draft either a Case Statement or a Grant Proposal Template during the three-month period. A Case Statement answers all the standard questions you will find in a grant: information about your organization and its leadership, an overview of your programs, strategies, and activities, clear data about the people you serve, and details about your organization’s impact. Alternately, and based on the outcomes of your Elevate team’s prospect research, we can prepare a Grant Proposal Template. A Grant Proposal Template covers much of the same content in a concise format that draws upon the most common grant application questions we see in our work with clients.