Consulting Overview

Expert Guidance Tailored to Your Specific Needs—When you Need It

 

We design our training to be the most comprehensive in the field with cutting-edge curriculum. In most cases, our training is also the most cost-effective way to get guidance that will rocket you and your organization forward. Though the curriculum is consistent from class to class, our expert trainers customize every live class by responding to the specific questions and needs of the class participants. So before you jump to consulting that can be more expensive, we hope you'll first take a look at our training—you get not only excellent, exhilerating training but also colleagial input from a rich network of professionals.

But you clicked on this page and we know that sometimes you might need something very unique and a hand to guide you through the thicket of a situation. We're here for that, too.

Our consultants are The Grantsmanship Center trainers with decades of experience and proven skills. Learn more about them here. We provide consulting services for:

• Grantseekers who want to develop the specific professional competencies that get programs funded.
• Grant managers who need to establish policies and procedures to manage grant funds.
• Grantmakers who want to elicit stronger proposals and gain new tools for achieving their mission.

Questions? Call or email Cathleen Kiritz, President & CEO at (800) 421-9512 ext. 6, info@tgci.com. We look forward to hearing fom you.

 

For Grant Proposal Writers and Administrators

 

Polish the skills you need to get programs funded with The Grantsmanship Center Consulting. We offer services in the following areas:

• Funding research – We’ll help you plan and implement a research approach that will identify the funders most likely to support your organization’s work.
• Program planning – We’ll show you how to identify community needs and plan programs to address them.
• Application review– We’ll help you interpret application guidelines so you can prepare a compelling proposal (we won’t write the proposal for you).
• Proposal review – When you want a professional review of a proposal, we’ll provide written comments and suggestions. We’ll study any application guidelines to make sure our advice is on track.
• Coaching for grant professionals – We’ll answer questions, suggest resources, provide professional advice and supervision by phone or webinar, review proposals, and/or recommend avenues for continued professional development.
• Organizational capacity building – We can guide your organization’s board and executive staff through a self-assessment of strengths and weaknesses in current management systems. The assessment results can provide a strong basis for policy and procedure changes or requests for capacity-building and infrastructure grants.
• Fund development strategies – We can help you establish an organizational fund development plan; and provide feedback and guidance as you work to increase revenues beyond grant funding.
• Specialized services – If you don’t see what you need here, give us a call.

 

Cost for Consulting

The Grantsmanship Center's standard consulting fee ranges from $300 to $350 per hour. We work with you to develop a plan to meet your organization’s needs, then prepare a Scope of Work that includes a cost estimate.

 

Cost for Proposal Reviews

We provide written comments and suggestions to strengthen your proposal. For additional proposal review services, such as telephone consultation, we charge the hourly consulting fees shown above.

Alumni enrolled in The Grantsmanship Center’s Membership Program receive proposal review benefits. The benefits of various membership types are spelled out in this chart.

 

For Grant Managers

Solid grant management is essential to maintaining good relations with funders, accomplishing program outcomes, and keeping your organization out of trouble.

 

For Grantmakers

Our consultants bring decades of experience from both sides of philanthropy. We can review application guidelines and suggest changes to generate responses that are well aligned with your priorities. We can also help establish or revise processes for proposal review and suggest workable systems for providing applicants with helpful feedback.

With 50 years of expertise in the field we confidently advise in the above areas and may be able to help with other topics as well..

Cost

The cost of The Grantsmanship Center Consulting to grantmakers depends upon the project’s complexity and duration. We’ll work with you to plan the project and establish an Scope of Work and a budget.