What is Grants Pro?
Grant writing, direct mail, events, planned giving, newsletters, websites, and memberships are some of the basic fundraising tools non-profit organizations use to generate needed income. While the Grants Pro team has 20 years of experience in the use of all these tools, grant writing is by far our best skill and the only service we offer at this time. If you want amazing research on foundation, corporate, or government funding sources and the high-quality grant proposals that are needed to win the money, Grants Pro is your best choice.
That said, the Grants Pro team is always available to talk with you, free of charge, about the other fundraising tools listed above. In the end, if we can help you to connect to another specialist we use or simply share ideas that have worked for us, we have helped a good cause – your non-profit organization!
How Does Grants Pro Work?
Writing and winning grants requires unique and practiced skills. Without doubt, the more you write and receive grants, the more successful and comfortable you are in starting a project and guiding it to a glorious, funded conclusion. Grants Pro has a straightforward method of understanding your goals and proceeding to results. Simply put, we talk with you about an hour or two, get to work researching your ideal grant makers, and then to constructing sincere and convincing proposals. Normally, a new client provides a modest packet of organizational information including its annual budget, board list, promotional materials, and even some old grants it may have used with various results. Grants Pro takes it from there.
The Grants Pro pledge is to conduct exhaustive grant maker research and to write stunning proposals that are remarkably organized, carefully personalized, and effective where it counts - convincing foundations, corporations, or government agencies to make the award.
Donor Research
Combining our ideas with yours, Grants Pro uses state-of-the-art research tools to search through over 100,000 local, state, and national foundations as well as corporate and government funding programs. Our research results in a document we call “Grant Maker Profiles”. Grant Maker Profiles include everything an applicant needs to quickly understand a particular foundation, corporate, or government grant maker. Grant Maker Profiles include complete contact information, assets and spending patterns, instructions for writing proposals, due dates for proposals, previous awardees, and much more. Grant Maker Profiles also come with action recommendations by Grants Pro that are placed upon each of the profiles themselves. These bulleted recommendations are what the Grants Pro team believes to be the best course of action to secure an award. Most Grants Pro clients receive between 100-200 Grant Maker Profiles, depending upon where the client is located. Private foundations, corporate giving programs, and government funding agencies are only included in your custom Grant Maker Profiles document when they match your funding needs. Before a prospective donor is added to your Grant Maker Profiles, Grants Pro conducts several on-line and personal "checks" to ensure donor compatibility with your interests.
Writing Proposals
With donor research and the Grant Maker Profiles completed - usually within two weeks - the Grants Pro team writes one or more proposals depending upon your respective needs. Typically, our clients require money for operating expenses, equipment, programs, salaries, technology, vehicles, and even for fundraising costs. Through e-mails, telephone calls, or meetings, you have unlimited opportunities to edit the grant proposals we prepare. Because we understand your sense of urgency, our turn-around time is as short as possible. With extensive experience in preparing grants for a wide variety of clients, new proposals are not only stunning in content and appearance, but are also prepared more quickly than would normally be expected. By personalizing each proposal for each grant maker, one or a few proposals work perfectly for hundreds of grant makers who are being pitched for various non-profit needs.
The proposals prepared by Grants Pro are praised by all our clients who include food banks, animal refuges, environmental organizations, memorial and historical societies, and selected human service non-profits. And while our proposals are appreciated because they are well organized, based upon documentation, easy to follow, and even use illustrations, in the end it is the checks for $1,000, $10,000, $100,000, and even $1,000,000 that makes us all cheer.
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No Better Price For The Quality
Typically, Grants Pro researches and prepares grant proposals with a combined total ask of at least $1 million. This varies widely since some clients need just a few thousand dollars while others are pursuing multi-million dollar capital campaigns. On average, a client pays Grants Pro about $6,000 annually for a full-scale, year-long project. This is usually paid in monthly installments, making your outlay easy to make through the year. Under this plan (most popular), you have essentially added one of the best grant writing teams in the United States to your staff, available 24-7 for the whole year. Other payment scenarios are routine, especially when a client wants help on a single grant. Here the costs are in the hundreds of dollars. It usually takes only three or four months before grants are flowing. Within just a few months, Grants Pro's clients realize remarkable returns on this sensible and responsible investment in fundraising.Grants Pro encourages you to conduct some comparison shopping. What's more, we are happy to discuss the results achieved by our clients.
Who Is Grants Pro?
John and Cynthia Morrill have 20 years experience in non-profit fundraising. The titles they have shared include Development Director, Chief Development Officer, Executive Director, Volunteer Coordinator, Grants Manager, Communications Director, and Data Base Manager. They have worked for Members of Congress, Food Banks, international relief organizations, public advocacy groups, human service organizations, museums, and church mission projects.
As the Writer for Grants Pro, John holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and certificates from several extended grant writing courses. John frequently speaks about fundraising and marketing non-profit organizations in Florida and nationally. As Researcher for Grants Pro, Cynthia is a master at web-based research and the artist behind the legendary Grant Maker Profiles produced by Grants Pro.
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