By Project

Preparing a grant can be daunting, but managing it once funded can be even more challenging. We will work with you to assess your grant readiness by:

• Providing guidance and tools to define reasonable and manageable goals, objectives and outcomes.

• Helping you identify missing expertise and resources and providing advice on how to identify and secure these people and resources. 

• Reviewing your grant management policies and providing feedback on alignment with funder requirements.  

We will guide you through the proposal process and support you in designing a responsive and competitive proposal by:

• Working with you to develop a strong narrative that meets funder requirements and aligns funder goals with your vision. 

• Working with you and your team to define project goals and objectives, develop metrics for measuring outputs, present a justification of need, and identify the long-term impacts of the project.

• Reviewing, editing, and providing templates for other required documents while ensuring that they create credibility and are aligned with the project narrative. 

• Providing proposal development support for items that are unique to your organization or the call for proposal.   

We enjoy helping grant teams build capacity by providing:

• An additional grant expert to support large proposal development

• A temporary increase capacity during times of high grant volumes. 

• Continuing education on topics of your choice.

• Group coaching to grant administrators and proposal development teams.

• A sounding board for new or review of existing grant development processes and grant trainings. 

Not seeing a package that encompasses your needs? Contact us! We are willing to work with you to develop a custom grant support package.

Unsure what type of grant funding to pursue for your project? We have worked with hundreds of funders and will use our expertise to:

• Identify funders that would fit best fit best with the goals of your project.

• Prepare a report of the top potential funders for your project. 

• Provide recommendations on prioritization of grants to . 

• Developing a plan and timeline for grant submission.

For larger  proposals with multiple partners and many moving pieces we provide project management for the process. Including: 

• Creation of proposal development timelines with internal due dates.

• Coordinating of the proposal development milestones

•  Ensuring effective communication across the team. 

• Acting as a central point for collecting, reviewing, and editing all key personnel documents and and partner letters. 

• Working with external partners, especially those unfamiliar with grant proposals, to coach them through completing their documents.

Note: In general, for proposals with more than 15 key personnel Affinity Grant Insights LLC can offer at most two of our three main proposal development services - grant writing focused on the narrative and summary/aims page, supplemental document assistance, or project management for the proposal.  ​

Our team is passionate about working with grantmaking organizations. We can work with you to:

• Provide training to strengthen the grant readiness and enhance the grant writing skills and practices of your grantees and partners.

• Review requests for proposals for clarity, accuracy, and ease of use by grantees.

• Provide a sounding board for new grant making policies and procedures.