Planning, Capacity Building, Project Development, and Grant Writing
for rural governments, non-profits, and groups with a vision.
Online Custom Coaching for Grants -
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The primary goal is to prepare your organization to attract funding and opportunity. ​My coaching digs deeper than the standard grant writing course. Together, we will prepare a comprehensive pre-grant reference package.
It will become your tool kit for jumping on those grants with tight deadlines, talking points when soliciting new funding avenues, and in-house guidance to meet timelines and activities.
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​Online sessions are typically 2 to 4 hours long.
I will provide a checklist of items for you to research and discuss with your team BEFORE the each session.
A 20-minute pre-session is free. You will receive a checklist to prepare for your first session and I do not have any limit on how many people attend as long as everyone is focused on the same target. Please text me or email me to schedule your pre-session. I will give you an hourly quote at that time. Sessions are very affordable and geared to working within your budget.
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The big question:
Will I learn about where to find grants?
Yes. But you will learn to target them rather than aimlessly apply:)
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Message me to schedule a pre-session discussion.
Thanks!
Here are some descriptions of session intent from different clients:
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Small municipality required restrooms in the downtown area where no public restrooms were located. In 3 sessions we developed a project white paper with plan view map; identified 5 avenues for funding; outreach campaign to gain citizen and business awareness; and identified various income-producing activities.
Group of citizens needed guidance establishing a nonprofit organization that was needed to incubate a number of community initiatives. In 4 sessions we identified the action plan for moving forward including preparation for community meetings and IRS-required documentation.
County Government requested facilitation for in-house strategic planning and the development of action-oriented plan. 3 sessions plus drafting the action plan.
Town needed facilitation for large community meetings. The invite for residents revolved around "visioning our future". Coaching involved how to publicize; how to NOT take it personally; review of questions and how to track them; next steps and follow-through. 4 sessions (3 to prepare and 1 to transcribe the public session into actionable items).
Town needed to establish an entity that could help secure the community's most treasured industry: shrimping. Key objectives were: obtain support from the community; nonprofit status; fundraising; acquisition of property; outreach; long-range management plan.
Rural municipalities wanted downtown revitalization. Primary step was establishing solid capacity-building ability so they had an action plan; partners; community outreach scope of work; visioning session with the Board. 5 sessions.
Nonprofit asks for grant writing coaching so their organization stopped stressing every time a new grant opportunity arose. All of their time was being spent chasing too small grants. We started developing their objectives with focused avenues of funding outreach that coordinated with a newly revised budget. 3 sessions.
Municipality asked for coaching in writing a specific grant. They also wanted to begin writing their grants in-house so this first run proved to be an excellent learning process. 3 sessions.