Grant Services for Nonprofits

We meet with staff and key leaders to perform a thorough review of your organization’s programs, policies, budgets, needs, and strategic plan. We ask open-ended and thoughtful questions to get to know you and understand, and even help direct, your grant strategy. We encourage you to describe your organization’s mission and program goals. When we request documents and past grants, our writers help you understand why we need the information. Our team helps you compile or create a portfolio of documents and attachments funders most often require. We can train boards and staff on best practices for seeking, administering, and reporting on grants.

One of the major strengths Assel Grant Services brings to every client is our staff’s experience and wide range of backgrounds. Since 2007, our team has built quality relationships with both large and small organizations and with the agencies that fund them. We can strategize with you to find potential connections with board members, as well as provide introductions to key local foundation program officers. Our grant experts know how to open the right doors and can direct you to discuss partnerships with the foundations that align with your mission and programs.

To diversify your revenue streams, you’ll need to communicate about your organization with multiple funders. Creating a comprehensive case statement with high-quality language about your organization and programs is key to efficiency, helping you avoid starting from scratch every time you begin writing a proposal. Our writers develop a comprehensive case statement for your organization and key programs. For organizations located in Kansas City, this step of the process may also include the creation of a Donor Edge profile with the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.

We help find funders who have supported similar types of organizations and programs, as well as identify promising new prospects based upon location, funding interest, target population, type of giving, and whether the funder is accepting applications. Each opportunity is given a quality match rating of 1-5, with 5 being the strongest. Based on all prior information, your priorities, risk tolerance, and budget, we create a grant calendar, beginning with your current funders and the highest-ranked potential funders with hard deadlines. Potential funders with multiple or rolling deadlines are scheduled as space and budget are available. We continue to provide regular monitoring of new opportunities, ensuring organizations are up-to-date on developing funding opportunities.

We work with your representatives to plan and develop proposals for submission in response to funder requests for proposals. Experienced in the planning, development, writing, and submission of grants, we arrive at meetings prepared with project timelines that include assigned tasks and due dates for project participants to ensure all information needed for the grant narrative and attachments will be received in a timely manner. We will work with program staff to gather accurate information about current and proposed programming and can create or critique logic models and outcome language to help strengthen proposals. We will work with finance departments to clarify allowable costs and to develop spreadsheets with pre-assigned formulas to facilitate budgets, including multi-year budgets and budgets with allowable indirect costs.   We can and will prepare federal forms and application packages for grants.gov’s Workspace, NSF’s FastLane, and NIH’s eRA Commons. We also work with the many partners of government agencies to provide high-quality individualized letters of commitment for partnership proposals.

Good reporting is critical to maintaining strong relationships with funders. Assel Grant Services will track your report deadlines, assist in setting up tracking systems for your program’s outcomes, and write the required reports for both government grants and foundation grants.

Our team is keenly aware of the necessity to meet deadlines and has a track record for following established and accelerated timelines. We have significant experience in dealing with quick turnaround times when required, while maintaining the highest levels of quality and professionalism.