Ongoing grant writing services to help fund your nonprofit’s mission

Grant seeking is a long-term process and an investment in your organization.

You could apply for one-off grants here and there, stringing them together as part of your fundraising efforts, but that’s not a true strategy.

With the Grant Services Retainer, I partner with your organization for 6 months or more to deeply understand your program and goals, and map out a grant strategy. You receive ongoing grant support to find, apply to, and manage your grants process.

Tiffany consistently demonstrates professionalism in her work and interactions, and the quality of her grant writing is strong. Tiffany is organized and keeps track of multiple reports, grants, deliverables, and timelines.

Karin Elliott, Executive Director, National Partnership for Education Access

What’s included in our grant writing retainer?

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    Grant Research & Cultivation

    - Research and identify potential funding sources

    - Collaborate with your internal team to ensure effective cultivation and stewardship of grantmakers, including developing a strategy and drafting communications, and attending grantmaker meetings

    - Use multiple grant-seeking databases, Listservs, and 990s to identify potential corporate and private foundation grant opportunities aligned with your organization’s programs

    - Work within your organization’s preferred software, or suggest suitable tools, to develop/maintain a grant calendar

    - Conduct and synthesize recent data and research to develop a strong grant proposal

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    Grant Writing & Reporting

    - Prepare grant submissions for prospective, current, and lapsed funding opportunities

    - Revise and edit proposals; Solicit and incorporate any funder feedback into grant materials as appropriate

    - Work with your team to prepare grant reports

    - Support your team in the grant submission process

    - Work with your internal team to prepare or develop the necessary attachments, including budgets

    - Attend information sessions or view recordings, when possible, to stay current on grantmaker requirements

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    Project Management

    - Lead/participate in monthly meetings with development and programmatic leaders to discuss funding opportunities, program details, and other grant-related items

    - Provide a Weekly Update via email detailing current, recently completed, or upcoming tasks

    - Manage and track deadlines

    - Communicate with the internal team to ensure the best quality submission

    - Manage supporting attachments to help your organization keep track of all of the moving parts in the grant process

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This service is best for:

  • 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations that have an annual operating budget of $1 million+

  • Organizations who have may have a one-person or small development team and would like to outsource their grant process

  • Organizations that know relationship cultivation is a not-so-secret ingredient to reaching their organization’s goals

FAQs

  • Tiffany Thibodeau Consulting specializes in serving New England-based youth-focused nonprofits. We also have a history of working with organizations outside of the New England market. This includes nonprofits in nature-based education, literacy, STEM/STEAM, college access, and youth workforce development to name a few.

  • Retainer services start at $4,000 for private foundation/corporate grant funding and increase if working with a portfolio of government grant opportunities.

  • To see if you qualify for one-off projects, you can book a call.

  • Managing the grant-seeking process is skilled work regardless of the outcome of funding. Several factors contribute to a grant being awarded and not all are within a grant writer’s control. A strong grant writer can help you develop an application whose contents can be repurposed. Most grantmakers do not fund activities that happen before the grant is awarded. The Grant Professionals Association and other professional organizations also forbid this practice.

  • An organization’s decision to work with a grant consultant boils down to your organization’s goals and capacity. If you have a staff member interested in learning how to write grants effectively and you can carve out enough time in their day-to-day to manage the process, you may not need to hire a grant consultant. Instead, you can seek professional development to help train your staff. If your team is busy with other aspects of fundraising or program delivery, or simply doesn’t have the time to learn, you may want to consider a grant consultant who is knowledgeable about the grant process, understands the funding landscape, and engages in ongoing learning.