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Think and Ink Grant Consulting®
in Atlanta, Georgia
Grant Writers and Nonprofit Consultants
We provide customized grant writing solutions to help you think through grant strategies
and ink competitive grant applications.
We specialize in foundation, local, state, and federal grants supporting women, children, health, and education.
Hi, I'm Shavonn.
Hi there,
I am the Founder & CEO of Think and Ink Grants. It's nice to meet you.
Why are you here? You are here because grant writing is hard work. It takes time and talent to find and write grants that win.
Our team has won over $80 million in grant funding. We are here to help your organization think strategically and win grants.
In service,
- Shavonn
Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC
Founder, Think and Ink Grants®
About Think and Ink Grants®
Founded in 2016 in Atlanta, GA, Think and Ink Grant Consulting® (Think and Ink Grants®) provides customized grant writing solutions to help your organization think through grant strategies and ink competitive grant applications. We transform how organizations find grants, connect with funders, solve problems, and deepen community impact. Our firm specializes in foundation, local, state, and federal grants supporting women, children, health, and education.
We take a comprehensive approach to helping nonprofits increase their grant funding, offering an array of outsourced, end-to-end grant-seeking services, which includes (1) grant-seeking strategic planning, (2) grant research, (3) grant writing, (4) grant management, and (5) evaluations.
Our team at Think and Ink Grants® provides grant writing and consulting services to a variety of organizations, including large 501(c)(3) nonprofits with budgets of $ 3 million or more, colleges, universities, and institutions of higher education, and city and county municipalities. Our team has a successful track record of helping organizations nationwide deepen community impact.
Our newest initiative, Get.Grants.Better.® provides training, education, and discounted services to underserved and emerging 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
NEW! Get.Grants.Better.®
The One-Stop-Shop Grant Writing Resource For Emerging Nonprofits
Take your nonprofit organization to the next level.
Get.Grants.Better.® provides training, education, and discounted services to underserved small-sized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
Adapted from our traditional client offering Think and Ink Grants® (www.thinkandinkgrants.com), Get.Grants.Better.® is designed to meet the unique needs (and budgets) of emerging nonprofit organizations.
What makes Think and Ink Grants® different?
Think and Ink Grant Consulting® is different because our team applies our real-world experience to offer highly customized services and practical solutions built specifically to help your organization increase grant funding. As we help craft your narrative, we highlight the uniqueness of your organization, helping you stand out from the crowded sea of endless proposals funders receive daily.
We are unique because we:
1. "Think" through strategy and how to demonstrate impact before we "ink" competitive proposals. Many often skip the "think" step.
2. Specialize in foundation, local, state, and federal grants supporting women, children, health, and education. We believe if we focus on improving these four focus areas, we can help change the world.
3. Share insight based on 150 years of combined actionable experience as former employees of foundations, reviewers, and nonprofit leaders. We even have two in-house university-level evaluators.
4. Provide all the value-added grant-seeking services most nonprofits would ever need under one roof- one firm, one relationship.
5. Offer the most advanced cutting-edge techniques in the grant professionals industry -our curated and time-proven approach is unmatched.
Who is our typical client?
Our clients experience the following pain points:
We are not a firm that churns out grant proposals hoping for a win. We work with clients committed to entering a partnership and applying thoughtful grant-seeking strategies.
We either operate as an outsourced grant office or fill in as little or as much as you need us as we collaborate with your existing team. Most clients do decide to outsource their grant-seeking efforts to our firm.
We do not provide services to individuals or businesses.
Does this sound like you? Talk to us today.
Here is a sample of our current and past clients:
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Not enough time
It's hard to find time to write grants and write them well. Outsource your grant writing to Think and Ink Grants and free up your time.
Use your free time to build relationships, improve strategy, or focus on other organizational priorities.
We are your trusted advisor here to make your life easier.
Needs more capacity
It's hard to hire a full-time staff with the capacity, experience, and expertise to effectively write grants.
As W2's, we work as an extension of your development office or be your outsourced development office.
As seasoned grant writers, we can support more complex grants like federal grants. All of this is at a fraction of the cost of hiring.
Needs SME experts
Don't make the wrong decision by not having grants professionals at the table.
We apply our time-proven techniques and bring our real-world experience as former federal grant reviewers, nonprofit leaders, and program managers to the table to provide timely and relevant insight.
What is our service offering?
Our service offering has been thoughtfully curated to help transform your grant-seeking strategy.
We provide full-service end-to-end grant-seeking support through five in-house services: grant consulting, grant research, grant writing, grant management, and evaluations
Grant Consulting
We help you think through ways to transform your grant-seeking strategy.
Examples: Received step-by-step guidance and expert-facilitated thought sessions. Our most popular consulting services include Logic Model-based Program Development, Grant Seeking Strategic Plans, Fundraising Plans, and Relationship Cultivation and Stewardship. A Relationship Cultivation and Stewardship Plans includes coveted unpublished funder contact information, our team writing targeted emails on your behalf, and a detailed relationship cultivation plan.
***NEW SERVICE OFFERING***
Grantmaker Support Services
We not only support grant seekers, but grantmakers as well. We have a winning track record in supporting grantmakers and other funders by providing the following services:
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Request for Proposal Writing
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Write RFPs to attract applicants, contractors, and reviewers
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Design a rubric to help you properly evaluate your options
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Panel Review Management
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Recruit, train, and manage panel reviewers
- Determine a rubric to identify applications best aligned with your priorities
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- Process Creation and Documentation
- Create and document the application and review cycle for your team or next hire to execute
- Receive a customized and detailed internal and external process guide
Interested? Speak to us today.
Our Think and Ink Grants grant writers can
free you up by taking grant writing off your plate.
Get in touch with one of our talented grant writers
in Atlanta, Georgia today:
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Your journey starts now.
Are you looking for grant writers in Atlanta, Georgia or across the United States, to fuel your specific organization’s needs?
There are thousands of different grants available through funders.
Yes, it's a long list—but there are a few things you can do to hone in on the ones that will specifically support your goals.
Based in Atlanta, GA, Think and Ink Grants® helps you "think" then "ink" your next grant opportunity. Our mission is to find the perfect grants, win them, and manage them so our clients build a consistent and strong relationship with funders.
If you’re interested in getting the right grants for your organization and building amazing funder relationships, continue reading...
Let us help your nonprofit maximize your grant seeking through our proven process.
1. Grant Consulting
How do you start to transform your organization's grant-seeking strategies?
Take the first step in getting strategic about finding and writing grants.
Our approach to Grant Consulting helps you define, map out, and clearly articulate your organization's grant-seeking strategy. We facilitate thought and ask thoughtful questions to move you from where you are to where you want to be. Our recommendations will propel your organization and set you up for success for years to come.
Within our Grant Consulting services, we deploy our Relationship Cultivation and Stewardship strategies to build new relationships with funders before submitting a proposal and to help make receiving new funding from existing funders' renewal that much easier. Both of these services help you be on the front line in building impactful relationships with funders. We help you approach each funder with the confidence and knowledge to succeed.
2. Grant Research
Are you trying to figure out how to find and build relationships with your ideal funder?
This phase starts with finding the right grant opportunities to help you achieve your goals.
Our Grant Research services develop an initial funder list of funders with a history of supporting organizations just like yours. We’ll take a comprehensive look at all the funders available to you and then match their giving history with your organization's initiatives. This results in a highly targeted list (we believe in quality over quantity) of funder opportunities that appeal to the funders’ interests while also fulfilling your organizational needs.
Benefit from a list of funders to pursue over the next 12 months and stay up-to-date on new grant opportunities month over month. You now finally have a 12-month grant application calendar.
3. Grant Writing
Wondering about the most effective way to win grants and find the perfect grant writer?
One thing you probably know is that funders are inundated with grant applications. So, naturally, finding a way to stand out is important. That’s why we use a specific formula to submit competitive grant applications through our Think and Ink Grants Grant Writing process.
We know that funders are looking for a very specific set of items in each application they get—and the more aligned you are with what an individual funder is looking for, the higher your chance of success becomes.
Our approach involves maximizing the score given by each reviewer. Only then will your application be considered for funding. Using the research we’ve gathered, our Grant Writing process handcrafts each proposal to clearly position your organization's missions and initiatives as a prime candidate.
4. Grant Management
Where do most organizations drop the ball when receiving grant funding?
After years of grant consulting, we’ve seen all the struggles organizations go through to find, receive, and maintain funding.
What we’re about to share is one of the biggest mistakes we see organizations make: Most organizations do not manage the funder relationship appropriately or set up the correct processes to keep funding relationships strong.
That’s why our approach to Grant Management is a game-changer.
One factor many organizations overlook is the importance of having a comprehensive grant management system in place and the importance of evaluating and reporting the success of your program.
Having a comprehensive reporting system that clearly shows the progress you’ve made toward your goals is critical to developing and maintaining a good relationship with funders.
If you don’t develop a comprehensive reporting system you could end up:
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Not receiving the full amount of funding available to you.
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Be excluded from future funding opportunities.
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Undergoing legal and financial consequences.
This is why the Grant Management phase is so instrumental to your future funding opportunities.
Putting a defined process in place to easily measure, evaluate, and report your initiatives will allow you to develop strong funder relationships and tell your story. All of which, when done correctly, will make your future funding needs more manageable.
5. Evaluations
What are evaluations, and why are they important?
Evaluations are required in many federal grant applications. In these cases, our team of on-staff evaluators helps complete evaluation plans and execute the evaluation plan once funded.
For us, evaluations don't just stop at federal grants. We help evaluate your organization to assess if your program is delivering on your intended outcomes through four types of evaluations: process, formative, process, and outcome evaluations.
Know where you stand and be able to communicate your community impact through our evaluation services.
Think and Ink Grants can help you transform your grant-seeking.
Get in touch with one of our talented grant writers
in Atlanta, Georgia today:
Not ready yet? Learn more here.
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