Grant Proposal Review & Critique

If you prepared a grant proposal, we can help your organization improve its chances of winning.

We will review and edit any proposal prepared by your organization for clarity, grammar, completeness, and match with the priorities of the grantmaker before you submit your application. And, we will review any proposal that did not receive funding to determine its strengths and weaknesses to help you prepare an effective proposal to submit in the future.

This highly sought-out service provides you with a section-by-section, paragraph-by-paragraph verbal and/or written critique of the areas that need improvement. If you choose, we can edit the document or you can use the critique to do so yourself.

At the July 13, 2020, Annual Meeting of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel (APC), Diane Gedeon-Martin, President of The Write Source became a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. She was already a member of the Board. In her new role, she will also serve as assistant treasurer.

Fellow grants consultant, Jana Jane Hexter recently blogged What Your Attitude to Jigsaw Puzzles Says about Your Capacity for Grant Writing with excerpts from her book, Grant Writing Revealed: 25 Experts Share Their Art, Science, and Secrets. In her post, she quotes four grant consultants, including our Diane Gedeon-Martin, about their puzzle-solving approach to grant writing.

You can access the webinar Diane Gedeon-Martin conducted for The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) International on March 13, 2019, entitled 21st Century Grant Applications: Brief and to the Point. Visit our Webinars for Purchase page for more information.

We are proud to welcome our newest clients: TERC (MA), Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, and the Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires.

mHUB Chicago (IL) received a $1.3 million, three-year Venture Capital grant from the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce to scale their Product Development (PD) program. It was one of 52 to receive an award of more than 600 applications submitted for the 2020 Build to Scale grant program.

The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless received a $115,889, one-year grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to scale its technology and create policies to serve 100 patients at three, high-need federally qualified health centers operated by the Community Care Cooperative.

The United Way of Connecticut received the only $1.83 million, three-year contract from the State of Connecticut, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) to develop the Statewide Adult Recovery Call Center for Crises.

Aspire of Chicago (IL) received a $233,000 grant from the Coleman Foundation to integrate and migrate information technology systems from its recent merger with NorthPointe Resources.

Be sure to visit our Grant Award News page for more information about these and other awards our clients received.