Think and Ink Grants® helps you "think" through effective grant-seeking strategies by offering:

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• Grant Strategic Planning: Transform your grant-seeking strategy by defining a customized and effective approach to pursuing grant funding.

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• Communication Clarity: Examine your mission, vision, goals, and objectives and their alignment with your intended outcomes across all communication channels.

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• Community Needs Assessment: Identify and zero in on the most critical needs of those you serve community need by examining data, conducting surveys, and facilitating focus groups.

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• Program Development: Logic model-based program design to create new and update existing programming, engage stakeholders, and communicate impact to funders.

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• Strategic Planning: Create a strategic plan defining your nonprofit's KPI's.

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• Budgets:  Compose organization and program budgets for sound financial planning.

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• Evaluation Plans: Evaluate the success of your program through planning and execution

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• Fundraising Strategy: Plan funding streams to maximize revenue.

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​Think and Ink Grants® helps your nonprofit prospect funders by:

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• Finding funders aligned with your mission with a history of supporting projects just like yours.

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• Completing the research needed to help customize a grant-seeking strategy to approve your approach to winning grants.

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• Creating a 2023-2024 Grant Application Calendar to help track grants' due dates, manage capacity, and ensure timely submissions.

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• Providing monthly ongoing research and identifying new grant opportunities year-round.

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• Outlining a relationship cultivation schedule to build relationships with funders prior to submission.

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• Helping you prepare for conversations with funders and advise on how to respond to various funder communications.

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​Think and Ink Grants® helps you "ink" competitive proposals for the following types of funding opportunities:

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• Federal/State/Local

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• Private/Family/Community/Other Foundations

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• LOIs (letters of interest or letters of inquiry)

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• Corporate Grants and Sponsorships

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• In-Kind Donations

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​Think and Ink Grants® provides the following grant management support:

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• Develop an ongoing grant reporting process to quickly and accurately complete funder-required reporting requirements

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• Define a data processes and capturing process across your organization for multiple users

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• Maintain a funder reporting calendar to submit funder-required reports on time

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• Expands capacity by helping complete funder-required reports

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​Think and Ink Grants® has two on-staff university level Evaluators available to provide the following support:

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• Create evaluation plans to communicate to the funder how you plan to measure your success

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• Construct evaluation questions to evaluate your programming appropriately

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• Evaluate your program to determine if you achieved your metrics of success

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• Compose an evaluation report to submit to funders

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