Customized Grant Research Reports

Map out your grant funding strategy a year in advance

As many of you know, my organization recently entered into a partnership with a nonprofit grant writing firm out of New Mexico (the Grant Experts) and its sister company, Resource Associates. I hope you have had a chance to look through their websites and read about the many capacity building services they offer to schools and nonprofits. One of their services has me especially intrigued. This is their Grant Research Opportunity Report (or GRO) service.

The GRO truly represents the next logical step that GrantsAlert.com followers should take to map out their grant funding strategy for the next year. Here is what the Grant Experts will do for you for a onetime $500 fee. They will conduct a mini strategic planning with you over the phone (or email); they will conduct extensive research on grants that align with your specific goals and initiatives (these include foundation, state, AND federal grants); and they will develop a customized grant research report for your organization that lists the grants that you should consider applying for in the coming year. After your report is complete, they continue to conduct research for their clients. When grants are released that are a good fit for your initiatives, they will forward you a grant alert via email and will be available to answer any questions you may have on the grant opportunity. This continued research and consulting are free and ongoing services.

I realize that you receive my weekly recaps of the funding alerts I have posted over the past week.  However, it is important for you to also realize that the grants I place on my website and weekly listing are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of potential grant opportunities. The GRO is much more comprehensive. For example, one of the unique features of the GRO report is what the Grant Experts term the "fundability ratio." Essentially, the ratio is based on a special formula that can predict your odds of obtaining a grant. For example, some grants are so competitive that an applying agency may only have a 5% chance of funding; others may have a 95% or better chance of funding. Knowing this information will help you make the right choices on which grants to avoid spending your time and money writing - and which grants will likely pay off in an award. With all of the wacky changes in the federal budget that have been negotiated over the past many weeks, the timing of having a customized GRO report created for your agency could never be better.