Professional Grant Services
About EdPro Grant Development Services
Ready to align your organization with the grant funding landscape, access more funding opportunities, and submit highly competitive grant proposals?
Federal funding for K12 education between 2015 and 2021 (7-year span) averaged about $85 billion annually. Of that, only about 10% is allocated through discretionary (competitive) grants, but that still amounts to about $8.5 billion in yearly federal K12 discretionary grants.
The amount that flows to K12 projects from corporate grants is hard very hard to estimate, but it’s likely to exceed $200 million.
However, even with generous grant funding like this on the table, most organizations struggle at winning grant awards.
Why?…
One reason is that most individual grant opportunities remain highly competitive.
Another fact is that many organizations lack a sufficiently disciplined approach, with proposals often rejected at the outset, for technical or administrative oversights. According to the Grant Training Center, “50% of all submissions to federal agencies are immediately disqualified because the instructions were not followed.”
Finally, many proposals, even if compliant, are never competitive enough, scoring poorly due to lack of effective alignment.
EdPro helps organizations optimize their grant positioning, strategy, and execution.
Applying principles of academic research, persuasive content marketing, and grant proposal writing, EdPro provides a potent arsenal of research, analysis, and communication practices perfect for executing a comprehensive grant funding approach.
Partnering with EdPro means your organization will be able to:
navigate complex federal grant applications and federal RFP guidelines
craft compelling and well-documented need statements and narratives
articulate valid goals and objectives aligned with funder requirements
help you articulate or, if needed, design or refine, assessment methodologies (within our scope of competency)
rigorously align budget data with agency and program requirements
And, for your trust and peace of mind, EdPro also adheres to the Grant Professionals Association Code of Ethics (GPA Code of Ethics).
Wondering how to better position your organization to win grant funding?
With the right sector research, careful analysis of potential funding sources and trends, and a better understanding of the organizational practices that can increase your proposal’s ranking, you can get ahead of the funding curve. This does not meand adapting your mission to short-term opportunities, but staying out in front of key trends, priorities, and best practices — strengthening thought leadership while creating more opportunities for steady and long-term grant revenues.
Worried about connecting with the Reviewers who will rate your proposal?
At EdPro we have familiarity with designing and writing to content rubrics and buyer personas. We apply the same principles to grant proposal rubrics—carefully speaking to each funders’ statutory concerns and objectives (for federal grants), or their philanthropic goals (for foundation and corporate grants), while highlighting your most relevant program strengths to craft the highest-ranking grant proposal possible.
Want a more streamlined approach?
EdPro can help nonprofit leaders increase communications efficiency and consistency by developing organizational messaging platforms that serve as an agile repository of approved messaging content.
These messaging platforms
house your very best messaging and key organizational information all in one place
save time and aggravation when retrieving key information, content, and messaging guidelines
help ensure more compelling grant narratives
make it easier to add or onboard grant writing collaborators, and more…
Your organizational teams will also find it helpful for achieving greater messaging consistency across communication channels.
More than ready for strong collaboration?
Want a partner who listens and leads?
Let’s discuss how to match our services to your present grant writing and communication needs.
And when it’s time to dive into producing a complex grant proposal — federal grant or other — I’ll actively strive to ensure your grant proposal development is guided by key stakeholders and stays on track and on time.
Ready to get started?
What support do you need for your grant writing challenges?