Grant writing services
We make it easier for people with bright ideas and important discoveries to access the funding that enables them to do their important work in the areas of climate science, technology, policy, and more.
Before you start drafting, before you start outlining, before you even decide what grants to apply to… loop in Written Progress. We’ll help you develop a strategy for doing each of those things in a way that’s time-efficient and gets you the funding you need.
Our clients get the best results when they take advantage of the full “life cycle” of grant funding support services:
Grant Strategy
We’ll facilitate a workshop where we’ll dig into your resources, learn about your organization, and draw out what opportunities are the best fit for you. Then we’ll pull it all together into a clear plan for kicking off your stream of opportunities.
Grant Opportunity Stream
After learning about your initiative and goals, we review our database of funding streams, conduct additional research, and regularly deliver a curated list of grants that are perfect for your initiative.
Theory of Change and Project Plan Development
You have a philosophy about why your initiative matters and how it can impact the world. We’ll work with you to lay this out in a way that will get funders excited about it, too.
Grant Writing and Management
Once we understand your objectives, motivations, and methods, we can spring into action on your behalf—completing and managing your submissions. Delegate it all to us, we’ll get in touch when there’s an update.
Our à la carte service modules enable us to provide value to teams with any budget level. If your budget is tight or you just want to learn to write grants yourself, we offer services you won’t find anywhere else.
Low-budget grant services
Grant Coaching
Need to DIY? We’ve got plenty of wisdom to share about how to approach your grant writing efforts in intentional, informed ways—and get the results you’re looking for.
Evergreen Content Development
To get the best bang for your buck, we guide you through a process of writing a batch of application material that you’ll modify and use again and again. You’d be amazed how much time this saves you!
Software access
Including project management infrastructure, communication platforms, document-sharing tools, questionnaire templates, cloud storage, and writing and illustration programs… everything you need to optimize the grant app process.
Technical Reviews
Once you’re repurposing your own Evergreen Content, we’ll conduct an expert review of your draft and offer feedback to ensure your application is a slam dunk.
Our most successful clients are our ongoing partners. Like any good long-term relationship, the nature of our relationship will evolve to support your needs. That’s why we keep it flexible enough to scale our services up or down as your budget and needs change.
An exercise in biodiversity and conservation content
Our longtime partners the Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT needed cashflow in order to create the digital solutions that will enable Ugandan and Zambian farmers to access the agricultural information and technological resources needed to improve their quality of life.
We listened to their ideas, got to know the field through interviews and desk research, identified the right key messages to help them stand out, and facilitated the entire process of distilling their pitch into the grant application that earned them more than US $1 million from the Global Environmental Facility.
Bring your grant application to life
Got an idea that’ll flourish with grant funding—but limited time to put together the apps? We can help you take grant writing for granted.