Grantwriting in a Team Environment: Building the Capacity of Your Grant Writing Team

Both new and established nonprofit organizations often depend on grants to fund operations and to build new programs and practices.  Unfortunately, many nonprofits have an underdeveloped capacity for writing winning funding proposals.

Transformative Concepts is here to help!

Grants written with a collaborative team are usually stronger, more realistic and tied to the real activities and history of the organization and provide opportunities for team-building. Grants written with a collaborative team can also be among the most frustrating and time-wasting of activities if there is no plan for the collaboration and team members don’t adequately understand their roles.

Why write a grant collaboratively?

1. Capitalize on multiple talents
2. Get multiple viewpoints
3. Increase organizational and/or partnership buy-in to the project proposal

There are four key steps to ensuring a successful collaborative grant writing process:

1. Define roles
2. Choose the team
3. Chart a realistic timeline
4. Choose tools

Transformative Concepts Consulting Group is here to assist your organization to build high-performance, collaborative teams to assist with your grant writing needs!  Our services can assist your organization to:

• Assess grant readiness
• Build a grant planning team or committee
• Research available funding opportunities that match your organization’s needs
• Identify and build team members’ skills
• Create realistic work plans and timelines
• Build an effective communication plan across the team and organization
• Develop logic models and theories of change
• Learn evaluation planning basics
• Learn grant budgeting techniques and “grant math”

Customize services based on your organization’s needs.  Grant team building can be done with organizations on a one-on-one basis, focused on a specific RFP or program proposal. Additionally, grant team building training can be done as a workshop, and organizations can partner with other organizations to reduce cost.

For more information on how Transformative Concepts can help your organization build the best grant team ever, please provide information below and we will contact you ASAP.