Strategy
Grant Strategy is AGS’s structured approach to building a sustainable grant pipeline. We help organizations replace reactive, deadline-driven submissions with a coordinated, proactive plan focused on organizational priorities, capacity, timing and compliance to a funders’ expectations. Our support can include:
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- Strategically aligning organizational goals with potential grant funding
- Identifying and prioritizing grant opportunities showing strong mission and capacity fit
- Assessing an organization’s readiness and competitiveness to support successful application submission and award implementation, and compliant award administration
- Reviewing operational documents (e.g., budgets, board lists) for consistency and alignment with funder-accepted formatting standards
- Evaluating an organization’s outcomes and data collection strategies (e.g., logic models, existing systems for measuring progress, realistic data tracking capacity)
- Developing and managing a grant calendar of potential funding opportunities, including based on organizational risk, readiness, fit, and organizational bandwidth
- Strengthening funder relationships through coordinated engagement, strong communication plans, and accurate reporting
- Developing consistent and effective core messaging, narratives, and case statements across all documents and applications
- Enhancing organizational understanding of funding architecture (direct vs. subrecipient funding, allowable vs. unallowable grant costs, and how grants may complement operating/capital or braided funding approaches)
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