Our Work: Grants

In our grant writing, we work to help you articulate the way in which you are definitively solving compelling problems. And if they’re not, we help you consider how you might.

Many nonprofits assume grant writing is a lucrative strategy. We will help you evaluate the strategic upside of grants at this particular stage in your organization’s lifecycle. As a result, you will have confidence in your decision to invest in grants or not and the ability to articulate your rationale for that decision.

How it’s helpful:

Clarity for your leadership team and Board of Directors
Clarity for your staffing plan and org chart
Ensuring you’re spending your time in the right place

Scope and Price:

Two weeks. $500.

We review your qualitative and quantitative data points.
We discuss with your team.
We communicate our recommendation.

Email us to get started:

hfrances@flyingwhalestrategies.com

Building a well-oiled machine for your grant strategy involves the following:

Systems and processes for grant prospect research
Creating a protocol for grant application decision making
Building weekly and monthly routines for grant portfolio activity
Establishing clear metrics for grant efforts
Creating grant writing and reviewing processes
Creating a grant language sourcebook
Creating grant reporting infrastructure
Building progress on upcoming fiscal year grant metrics

How it’s helpful:

With these systems in place, grants will generate scalable revenue. You will no longer feel like you are reacting to grant opportunities, but rather that you are providing partnership opportunities to grant makers.

Scope and Price:

Eight-twelve weeks. $10,000-$12,000

Weekly meetings with your team to provide training and project management on the above list
A fully developed grant language sourcebook based on your organization’s best work to date and additional content created by our team of writers
Grant report template and reporting protocol for field data
Partnership in conceptualizing, reviewing, and editing grant applications underway or pending during our time together
A scalable grant writing operation with traction toward revenue growth

Email us to get started:

hfrances@flyingwhalestrategies.com

Flying Whale serves as an outsourced grant writing team capable of managing your grant strategy as a whole and/or producing applications and reports according to your calendar.

We Manage and Write

When we manage your strategy, we are providing you with an update on the grant activity happening on behalf of your organization. You will be our thought partner on the strategy for each application. You will answer specific questions that need further explanation. You will provide critical updates on your programming. You will respond to our recommendations for relationship stewardship touchpoints on your portfolio. But you will not be responsible for tracking deadlines and delegating grant activity. We will report progress toward goals on prospect research, applications submitted, and applications approved.

You Manage we Write

When we simply produce applications and reports according to your grants calendar, someone on your team serves as the manager of the strategy, providing our team with clear guidelines on each upcoming application and report. We are the copywriters and editors that ensure the content is ready for a competitive application.

How it’s helpful:

You experience the benefit of a seasoned fundraising professional at a fraction of the price. You remove the direct and indirect expense of holding grant writing on your internal team. The return on investment is higher.

Scope and Price:

Monthly retainer. $2,000+

Email us to get started:

hfrances@flyingwhalestrategies.com