What is Grants Pro?
With 20 years as professional fundraisers for non-profit organizations, the Grants Pro team can help solve your funding challenges using a variety of development techniques.- Grants Pro specializes in award-winning research and proposal writing aimed at foundation, corporate, and government funding sources.
- Grants Pro frequently assists clients by writing text and articles for newsletters, brochures, direct mail, and websites - all with an eye toward revenue generation.
- Grants Pro also assists non-profit organizations with donor data bases, media and marketing, and seminars on fundraising.
- Grants Pro has exhaustive experience in events management and assists clients in any capacity on this important source of funds.
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 donors, and then to constructing sincere and convincing proposals.The Grants Pro pledge is to write stunning proposals that are remarkably organized, carefully personalized, and effective where it counts -- convincing donors to make the award.
Writing projects are equally straightforward. Newsletters, direct mail
pieces, brochures, and websites should always produce revenue. Using
these tools, Grants Pro can help you to achieve amazing results in
fundraising.
Grants Pro recognizes the direct relationship between good media and
successful fundraising. The Grants Pro team has generated hundreds of
powerful news stories for participating clients - often concluding with
information about how to donate to the client.
Event fundraisers are equally important as friend-raisers. Events are
labor intensive. They require meticulous planning, substantial
volunteers, and effective tactics for sponsor recruitment and ticket
sales. Grants Pro can help with any or all of these tasks.
Donor Research
Combining our ideas with yours, Grants Pro uses state-of-the-art research tools to search through thousands of local, state, and national foundations as well as corporate and government funding programs. Our research results in the Grants Pro grid an excel report that shows everything about the donors we are pitching for you.Once Grants Pro identifies a client's pool of logical donors (average
number: 100 donors), an excel spreadsheet is prepared that identifies
relevant information about the prospect including complete contact
information, assets and spending patterns, method and due date of
application, and expected decision dates. This document becomes your
management tool and our road-map of who to cultivate and where to send
personalized proposals. This is the popular Grants Pro "grid".
Private foundations, government programs, and corporate charity are only
included in your custom grid when they match your funding needs. Before
a prospective donor is added to your grid, Grants Pro conducts several
on-line and personal "checks" to ensure foundation/donor compatibility
with your interests.
Writing Proposals
With the grid stage completed - usually within two weeks - the Grants Pro team writes one or more proposals depending upon your respective needs. Typically, our clients need money for operating expenses, equipment, programs, salaries, technology, vehicles, and even for fundraising costs. Through e-mail, telephone calls, or meetings, you have unlimited opportunities to edit our work. Because we understand your sense of urgency, our turn-around time is as short as possible.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 $4,500 for a full-scale project. A full-scale project usually involves about 60 hours of Grants Pro work and results in tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars in return. Within 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 grids produced by Grants Pro.